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(38,893 posts) Fri Mar 1, 2013, 01:57 PM Mar 2013

12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor [View all]

Occupy Chicago ‏@OccupyChicago

12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor. Will it screw you as well? http://bit.ly/13tFcnL

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/budget-cuts-sequester-low-income-poor

Public housing subsidies: $1.9 billion in cuts would affect 125,000 low-income people who would lose access to vouchers to help them with their rent.

Foreclosure prevention: 75,000 fewer people would receive foreclosure prevention, rental, and homeless counseling services.

Emergency housing: 100,000 formerly homeless people could be removed from their current emergency shelters.

Educational programs: Learning programs for poor kids would see a total of $2.7 billion in cuts. The $400 million slashed from Head Start, the preschool program for poor children, would result in reduced services for some 70,000 kids.

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12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor [View all] Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 OP

The nasty part is that many have no clue what this will do to their "neighbors". Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2013 #1

"You will see more break-ins, more prostitutions, more muggings." Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 #2

How true! Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2013 #3