Health Care & Hospital Law
Jun. 12, 2009
Looming State Welfare Cuts Risk a Legal Aid Shake-Up
The Legislature is weighing plans to slash the state's safety net programs by about $3 billion dollars, including eliminating the CalWorks program altogether and sharply reducing medical care for uninsured children in order to close a $24 billion deficit.
By Evan George
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - State welfare advocates call it "the bible," a 1,000-page manual that teaches legal aid lawyers how to plug the poor into CalWORKS, California's welfare program. But the good book, freshly revised by the Western Center on Law and Poverty to include new rules and hard-won gains for their clients, could soon be cast out. That is because the Legislature is weighing plans to slash the s...
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - State welfare advocates call it "the bible," a 1,000-page manual that teaches legal aid lawyers how to plug the poor into CalWORKS, California's welfare program. But the good book, freshly revised by the Western Center on Law and Poverty to include new rules and hard-won gains for their clients, could soon be cast out. That is because the Legislature is weighing plans to slash the s...
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