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Recession brings cuts to veterans' service groups: (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
May 28, 2009
In Michigan and elsewhere, once-sacrosanct veterans' programs are no longer safe from the knife as tax revenues continue sliding in the recession. In a recent budget-cutting order, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and legislators slashed $1 million, or 25 percent, of funding for 11 groups that help veterans through a maze of paperwork and bureaucracy to get disability and pension benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. [click here to view] (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQi2Rm8kMlKzb1PQOLyZjz-hwLQQD98F4E282)
