In the News Eugene Register Guard, Saturday April 28, 2001. Sheketoff suggested that this would be an early test for the new DHS director. Mink was appointed director of the agency last week after serving for a few months as acting director. According to the OCPP's analysis, cash assistance is worth less, and people have to be poorer, to qualify for assistance today than in 1991 or 1985. The public policy research group noted that the Governor's proposed budget for extremely poor women with dependent children only makes matters worse by cutting cash assistance, making child care assistance more expensive and less accessible, and deprives families of job retention and wage enhancement services that are currently provided.
State law prohibits removing recyclable materials from someone else's refuse container.
Copies of the OCPP letter were sent to the Governor and various members of his staff, the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Services and their staff, the House Health and Public Advocacy Committee and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and staff, and the Department of Administrative Services Budget and Management Division. A copy of the AFS flyer is attached. The OCPP letter to Mink is available at left.