State Budget Crisis Put Panels On Women, Aging, Children, Minorities At Risk
Teresa C. Younger is the executive director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women. (MICHAEL MCANDREWS)

State Budget Crisis Put Panels At Risk

Some lawmakers say the 35-year-old Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and the state's panels on aging, children, African Americans and Latinos may be extravagances Connecticut can no longer afford. Like many other state-funded groups, initiatives and programs, they face a precarious future.

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Reader Poll With massive deficits looming, Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the Democratic-dominated General Assembly will face difficult choices. Rell is expected to propose a 2009-11 budget in early February, and legislators then will begin negotiations and revisions.


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