Article: Human services budget in limbo.(Legislature)(State legislators wrangle over the cuts and add-backs for programs for the needy)

Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard

SALEM - With a trail of transplant patients who've lost drug coverage, mentally ill people who have been denied treatment and poor families

whose assistance checks have been reduced, Oregon lawmakers don't pretend to be able to restore all the human service cuts they've made.

After more than six months in session, legislative Democrats and Republicans have narrowed their differences to about $40 million in how much to spend on human services programs.

Along with the public schools budget, human services is shaping up as one of the last sticking points separating the two parties in determining how ...

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