Pat Quinn on Welfare & Poverty

Maintain human services even during the Great Recession

We're using strategic borrowing where necessary, in order to get our state through a tough time. There was an effort last summer to cut human services in Illinois during this Great Recession, cut them in half. Now I didn't think that was right, and I vetoed that budget. And we passed a different budget, one that does involve some borrowing in order to keep our human services going.

What are these human services? They are things like child care to make sure that working parents have a good place for their children to go to, during the day. Same way with our community care, to help our seniors stay in their home, so they don't have to go to a nursing home. Same way with our persons with disabilities, for independent living. So we rejected the unwise efforts to cut the budget for those with disabilities. It's very important, even in a tough time, that we always retain our heart, our decency.

Source: Illinois 2010 State of the State Address , Jan 13, 2010

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