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Article: State ready to distribute next round of school clothing vouchers
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- June 24, 2005
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Nearly 57,000 vouchers
will cost about $8 million
State officials are poised to distribute thousands of school
clothing vouchers worth $150 each to needy students in West Virginia.
Though Gov. Bob Wise last year cut the vouchers to balance the
budget and then reinstated them after a surplus in November, this
year's vouchers mirror the amount to which Gov. Cecil Underwood
raised it in 1999.
The nearly 57,000 vouchers will cost the state about $8 million,
said John Law, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human
Resources.
"The governor particularly wants to give kids this opportunity to
get new clothes for school," Law said. "It's a new adventure and you
want to be dressed for it."
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