Human Services
When the state legislature made billions of dollars in cuts to balance the last budget, there were consequences in human services.
What's liable to happen to human services this time around?
Panelists:
Harvey Kronberg, Quorum Report and News 8 Austin
Sajata Dand, KERA-TV Dallas
W. Gardner Selby, Austin American-Statesman
Harvey Kronberg
Harvey Kronberg is the publisher and editor of the Quorum Report. QR
is an online news source publishing news about state government and politics in real time. Kronberg started as a contract writer in 1989 and bought
the publication in 1998 at which point it was transformed from a biweekly
print publication to an online news service.Sujata Dand
Sujata Dand is reporter and producer for Life in the Balance: The
Health Care Crisis in Texas. An Emmy Award-winning television journalist, Dand has worked on magazine-style stories for KERA's weekly public affairs television program, On The Record and contributed reports to KERA 90.1 FM.Most recently, her work on the health care crisis at Parkland Hospital earned her a Lone Star Emmy Award for Best Program Segment. Prior to her work at KERA, Dand was a reporter and anchor at the CBS station in Wichita Falls, Texas. She's a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio and attended public schools in Hurst, Texas.
W. Gardner Selby
Since 1983, W. Gardner Selby has covered Texas politics and government
for The Beaumont Enterprise, Dallas Times Herald, The Houston Post, San Antonio Express-News and Austin American-Statesman, where he is currently the paper's chief political writer.
More about this topic:
- KERA Program: Life in the Balance: The Health Care Crisis in Texas
- “Perry calls for CPS probe”
by Michael King, The Austin Chronicle, July 9, 2004- “CHIPS: Number of Children Enrolled” Texas Health & Human Services Commission, March 1, 2005
- Study of HB 2292
by Celia Hagert, Center for Public Policy Priorities, July 1, 2003- PR: Senator Jane Nelson Files Senate Bill 6, Nov. 8, 2004
- “Impact of 78th Legislative Cutbacks”
by Elaine Rogers, Ft. Worth Child- PR: Executive Order RP33
Governor Perry’s Press Office, April 14, 2004- PR: Perry Unveils $250 Million Overhaul of CPS
Governor Perry’s Press Office, Jan. 6, 2005- PR: Protective Services Reform Bill Advances in Senate
Senator Jane Nelson’s Press Office, Feb. 22, 2005- Health Policy Briefs, Texas Institute for Health Policy Research
- Texas Alliance of Child & Family Services
- Texas Mental Health Plan Could Omit Thousands
NPR’s All Things Considered, July 20, 2004- "Panel: Retain Mental Facilities"
The Dallas Morning News via Associated Press, April 2, 2005- “Law Professor’s Medical Liability Findings Baffle Texas Health Care Community”
Insurance Journal, March 24, 2005- “Texas must invest now in training its health-care workforce”
By Carlos Guerra, San Antonio Express-News, March 29, 2005- “Denton hospital blends nonprofit, for-profit”
by Steve Quinn, The Dallas Morning News, April 1, 2005
