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Food stamps, senior citizens and the state budget
As the economy limps along, taking a new hit every week in the business pages, social service organizations are feeling a dual pinch.
While need for programs increases, government revenues that pay for many programs is slipping.
For example, Tiffany Latta wrote a piece in today’s paper (read it here) about a surge in demand for food stamps. Another story I wrote Friday (available here for Hamilton, and here for Middletown) talks about the needs of local senior citizens as baby boomers age.
But at the state level, the outlook is glum. Read a Columbus Dispatch story here about a slew of cuts Gov. Strickland is proposing, in part to help pay for a job creation package that he thinks will save the state’s economy.
What do you think?
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