Cash aid for disabled adults on state chopping block, Associated Press, May 16, 2012, Patriot-News: “A decades-old program that provides about $200 a month for tens of thousands of disabled adults who can’t work is on the chopping block even as improving tax collections give state lawmakers the freedom to reverse some of Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed cuts in spending for things like universities, the race horse industry and the Legislature itself. Corbett, a Republican who ran on a no-new-taxes pledge, advocated doing away with the $150 million General Assistance cash benefit in a $27.1 billion budget plan he released in February. It called for a series of cutbacks he blamed largely on the rising cost of pensions and health care for the poor…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty