Social Work Student Discusses Cuts

In a Bangor Daily News letter to the editor, UMaine social work graduate student Lucy Barnhart wrote about proposed budget cuts to to the prescription drug and health care assistance for people over 65 and people with disabilities. Barnhart wrote that this population deserves to continue to receive consistent preventative health care, which is a vital part of being healthy, and added that she would be willing to pay more in income taxes to provide for seniors and people with disabilities.

Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777