June 4th, 2009 12 noon

Statehouse Lawn, Downtown Columbus

NOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE YOUR VOICES HEARD!

Basic services - food, child care, health care, after-school programs, financial aid programs for college - are about to be cut from the State Budget. Ohio's most vulnerable populations have lost their jobs, their homes, and now they might loose even more!

ITS TIME TO TAKE A STAND!

DEMAND A FAIR BUDGET FROM OUR LEGISLATORS!

• Gowning numbers of Ohio and are standing in line at a food pantry for the first time in their lives.
• Over the last year the demand for food at Ohio's food pantries has increase 29%. Demand for basic services are at record levels.
• At the same time, 10% of food charities have had to close their doors. Many more are teetering on the edge, While others are rationing food to hungry families.
• Ohio will not survive if it allows hunger to grow ar rates that limits a child's ability to learn and an adult's ability to earn.

The Ohio Senate may REMOVE all the health and human services funding in the recently passed House Bill 1, the 2010/2011 State Budget Bill.

What's at Stake?

• Emergency food assistance programs for all Ohioans
• Health care for uninsured adults
• Health care for Oho's children
• Reduced financial aid and scholarship programs for college students
• Child care services
• After-school programs for school-aged children
• Kinship support services for children
• services fir abused and neglected children
• Home nurse visits for at-risk infants
• Community services for senior citizens
• Wavier shots for persons with developmental disabilities

Your support increases revenues to protect the health and human services from further cuts as well as restoring critical funding to these programs. Ohioans are counting on Legislators to lead us through this crtisis by making smart chioces and putting revenue ideas on the table during these budget debates to lay the ground work for a better economic future.

For more information contact www.protectohio.org

Did You Know?

A recent Ohio pool reveals 57% of Ohioans, when specifically asked about alternatives to budget cuts favor a budget proposal that increases taxes to avoid cuts in state services. Our Leaders can and should respond to the very real problems Ohio families are facing right now, and together, WE can lay the groundwork for a better economic future.

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