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Threat now hangs over a happy home
Special-needs residents could lose accommodations
By Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, Saturday, March 10, 2011

Budget cuts will have consequences for disabled
Perry gives no quarter to disabled Texans seeking a meeting.
By Bob Richter/Express-News, Updated 12:01 a.m., Sunday, March 6, 2011

Texas parents, advocates deplore cuts for disabled
CNBC, February 3, 2011
The Associated Press

Even budget deficits are bigger in Texas
by Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.com
January 19, 2011

Texas lawmakers unveiled a Spartan budget late Tuesday night that slashes $31 billion in spending to close the state's massive budget deficit. Education, Medicaid and corrections would be hit particularly hard.

Feds Slated to Reduce Texas Medicaid Match
by Emily Ramshaw and Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
December 7, 2010

The biggest culprit in Texas’ growing debate over escalating Medicaid costs? A mathematical formula that calculates how much the federal government pays and what’s left over for the state.

Already facing a record budget shortfall, Texas’ Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) will drop more than 2 percentage points in late 2011, equivalent to a $1.2 billion hit. Only two states — Louisiana and North Dakota — will face a bigger percentage drop. And that’s after federal stimulus funds that have been artificially enhancing this match dry up in the spring, another blow to cash-strapped state Medicaid programs in Texas and across the nation.  Click here to read the full article.

Developmentally Disabled Learn to Socialize
Richard A. Marini
September 23, 2010
San Antonio Express News
Eva's Heroes host the Fall into Fall dance at The Arc of San Antonio's Pam Stephens Center.