Budget: Who the House Plan Hurts

Mar 17, 2011

An excerpt from "A Better Budget for All: Saving Our Economy and Helping Those in Need" (Coalition on Human Needs)

Millions of people would suffer under the House of Representatives’ plan for the rest of fiscal year 2011. Here’s a sampling:

* 218,000 young children would not be able to receive Head Start services.

* 11 million patients would lose health care they would have received at Community Health Centers over the next year, with 3.2 million losing care in the next few months; 127 health center sites would have to close, and 7,434 jobs would be lost.

* 20 million low-income people, including 5 million children, 2.3 million seniors and 1.7 million people with disabilities, would have access to anti-poverty services disrupted.

* 9.4 million low-income college students would lose some or all of their Pell grants.

* More than 8 million adults and youth would lose access to job training and other employment services. Job training under the Workforce Investment Act would essentially be shut down until July 2012.

* 81,000 low-income people, mostly seniors and some children, would no longer receive food packages and six states would not be able to join the program after being approved to do so.

* 1.2 million poor households in public housing (two-thirds of whose members are elderly or have a disability) would see maintenance and repairs on their apartments deteriorate due to cuts in the Public Housing Capital Fund.

* 10,000 people with significant long-term disabilities would lose their rental assistance; most of these would lose their homes.

A Better Budget for All: Saving Our Economy and Helping Those in Need

To see the full report from the Coalition on Human Needs, follow the link below.