As a society, we should be measured on the basis of how we treat our most vulnerable citizens. So when the General Assembly, without even holding a hearing, unconscionably cut $24 million to the programs that aid Rhode Islanders with developmental disabilities, we failed as a society to help those who can least help themselves. Now is the time to restore the funding. Now is the time to have a heart.
PROVIDENCE - With state lawmakers scheduled to take up bills that would restore some or all of last year's cuts, advocates for those with developmental disabilities descended by the hundreds Wednesday on the Rhode Island State House. They gathered out front, they gathered in the rotunda, and they packed a House Finance Committee meeting, where family members , agency workers and agency directors told a tale of scaled-back programs, pay cuts,reduced benefits and layoffs as a result of last year's...READ MORE
