Columnist: Illinois budget targets people with disabilites
July 21st, 2009Mark Brown, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, says the Illinois legislature hurt some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens when it approved a “bogus stopgap budget deal” that included deep cuts in human services programs. The budget is a “lousy outcome for people who already get short shrift in this state,” he says.
Hurt the most, he says, are people like 35-year-old Tom Morissette, a man with Down syndrome whose day program was forced to close. Now Morissette is stuck at home, watching television or sitting on the porch swing. “It’s truly been a devastating loss,” his sister says.
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