Hundreds of child care providers, healthcare workers and disability rights activists rallied in the Capitol Rotunda as legislators returned to Springfield Tuesday in another attempt to resolve the FY10 budget while Illinois families face harmful cuts.
Already, vital service providers across the state have been hit hard by budget cuts—cutting care and services for tens of thousands of families and forcing thousands of layoffs.
Members of Illinois Action for Children, who organized Tuesday’s rally, carried pink carnations representing child care providers and early childhood educators across the state now receiving pink slips.
Instead of passing a fair and responsible new revenue plan, lawmakers are now moving towards a budget resolution that relies on devastating cuts and borrowing billions of dollars to stop an immediate shutdown—putting tens of thousands more families at risk of losing the vital human services they rely on.
WAND-TV’s Gordon Graham has the story here:
© 2010 Campaign For Illinois' Future |