Personal Stories Used to Thwart Buget Cuts [View All]

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"I'm working to try to support my family the best I can, and I really don't think targeting single parents by taking away their Medicaid is going to make anything any better," Schnetzer said, shivering on a chilly morning outside the Statehouse during a lobbying trip to Columbus.

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She receives about $13,000 a year between child support, unemployment benefits and a part-time job grading students' standardized exams. The 39-year-old woman from Blanchester in southwestern Ohio said she pays more than $600 a month for medication to control nerve damage from a spider bite.

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"I'm confident that they're going to talk about `the sky is falling.' The sky always falls when the budget comes unveiled and you don't get exactly what you want," said Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted, a Republican.



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