Human Resources committee  Oh boy, do you have a day or two? There are a lot of things that need to be done. Obviously, funding is a huge priority. The agencies are starved. They're being forced to cut services at the very time that demand is increasing. The quality of service is deteriorating. There are

Human Resources committee  I believe it is. A lot are cobbling through. You have executive directors who aren't being paid because they're putting the funding into programs, and that can go on for only so long. An immediate help would be to double the level of funding to programs like HIPPY, back to the fu

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for having the hearings yesterday and today. As the recession continues to develop, unemployment continues to rise, and people who were once considered middle class are finding themselves without work and threatened with homelessness. You will