Human Services

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Questions on the following documents should be directed to Bob Schneider or Kevin Koorstra, Fiscal Analysts for the Human Services budget.

PowerPoint Briefing

Line Item Summary

Recent Budget Bill Summaries

Child Development and Care Program Performance Audit, Summary of the [88K], August 11, 2008. The following information was compiled by Kevin Koorstra and Bob Schneider after a review of the findings of the recent Auditor General's report on the Child Development and Care Program in the Department of Human Services.

Family Independence Agency FY 2003-04 Appropriations Report [216K]. Prepared by Erin Black and Richard Child, December 2003.

Family Independence Agency FY 2002-03 Appropriations Report [381K]. Prepared by Myron Freeman and Erin Black, November 2002.

Family Independence Agency FY 2001-02 Appropriations Report [715K]. Prepared by Myron Freeman and Erin Black, January 2002.

Federal Welfare-To-Work Grant: What Is It? How Can It Be Successfull? (Fiscal Forum) [54K], April 1999. Fiscal Fundamentals: The Budget Process (video), December 2000.

Family Independence Agency FY 2000-2001 Appropriations Report [299K], November 2000.

Federal Welfare Reform: Answers to the 21 Questions You Wanted to Ask [33K]. Prepared by Myron Freeman and Alec Rodney, February 1996.