Utah’s social services budget up for committee vote

Utah’s social services budget up for committee vote
Utah’s social services budget up for committee vote By dan weist The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Jan 27, 2011 06:55PM MDT A legislative committee plans to vote Friday on its first draft of a social services budget, perhaps cutting millions of dollars from the state’s health and human services. Members of the Joint Social Services Appropriation subcommittee have been asked by GOP leadership to cut …
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Weighing the costs of disaster
( Association for Psychological Science ) Disasters — both natural and manmade — can strike anywhere and they often hit without warning, so they can be difficult to prepare for. But what happens afterward? How do people cope following disasters? In a new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers review the …
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Neighborhoods dig out as region recovers from first storm
Many still without power, as crews clean up trees, clear snow In the aftermath of the region’s first major storm of the season Wednesday, many neighborhoods continued to dig out, as crews rushed to find the owners of abandoned cars, remove fallen trees and restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes.
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