Will the Federal Recovery Plan reach low income Minnesotans?

The proposed $825 billion federal economic recovery bill would provide additional money for child care, welfare to work services, health care coverage fo rmany of the unemployed, Head Start, employment services and job creation.  The final federal bill will be important to those of us who care what happens to or for Minnesotans with low incomes. Federal funds can help in two ways:

• what those funds support in assistance targeted to low income households; and
• how federal funds help the state grapple with its biggest budget crisis in decades.

Affirmative Options members know that when the State runs short of money, low income Minnesotans pay the price.