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Hundreds rally against APD cuts

NBC2 News

A hastily-assembled rally against cuts to programs that care for the developmentally disabled drew hundreds of people with disabilities, their families and caregivers to protest Gov. Rick 's emergency order last week to slash payments to ...

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Budget ax forces deep cuts at Treasure Coast centers for developmentally disabled

TCPalm

Burgess, 's spokesman, told the Miami Herald on Wednesday the cuts were necessary and the governor doesn't want to harm the developmentally disabled, but the bill was due. APD had a $45 million deficit last year, which rolled over to this ...

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Disabled lose care statewide thanks to spending cuts

Florida Today

SUNTREE — — When Behavioral Services of Brevard was told Friday the state was cutting payments to service providers of people with disabilities by at least 15 percent, the Cocoa agency immediately suspended service to its 60 developmentally disabled ...

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4 1/2 hours in, Senate talks schools, health care budgets

Juice (blog)

The cuts will not hurt children, pregnant women or the developmentally disabled. Negron said that the Senate was committed to protecting the developmentally disabled population, which has heavily lobbied Tallahassee lawmakers over the past few weeks. ...

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weighs in on his cuts to Agency for Persons with Disabilities

Tallahassee Democrat (blog)

Organizations serving Florida's most severely handicapped citizens fear the 15-percent cut in state payments that Gov. Rick ordered for care of the developmentally disabled will really add up to double that amount and force some providers out of ...

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Letter: Florida's gold-plated governor sticks it to state's most fragile ...

TCPalm

For every $1000 of Floridians' personal income, $2.14 is dedicated to services for the developmentally disabled. Compare that to other states such as New York at $9.53 and Louisiana at $7.43. APD's budget is smaller than it was in 2005. ...

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praises athletes, then cuts programs

Tallahassee.com

Ross said APD added about 5000 clients to its developmentally disabled rolls about five years ago but the Legislature never funded the increase adequately. He said ex-Govs. Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush "coped through a variety of means, and it hasn't ...

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Our view: Dignity for disabled needs a huge fix

St. Augustine Record

Rick immediately imposed a 15 percent cut in state funding for services to intellectually and developmentally disabled people. Though the state program, Agency for Persons with Disabilities, was working on cuts for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, ...

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Florida Morning: Use of 'uterus' earns lawmaker reprimand, confederate plate ...

Florida Times-Union (blog)

If there's some teacher's aide at the Florida School for Deaf and Blind who's smoking wacky tobacky on the weekend, we have a right to know!" http://bit.ly/eVYfJA SPENDING SLASHED FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED - "The state Thursday slashed payments for ...

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