Dave Downy. The Californian 

Officials say ‘trial balloon’ would cut off 84 percent of county clients
One of the casualties of Sacramento’s chronic budget woes could be California’s fastest-growing social program, and ripple effects would spread far and wide across Riverside County. Created as a tool to keep disabled and elderly people at home as long as possible, avoiding the larger expense of caring for them in nursing facilities, the In-Home Supportive Services program has 460,000 clients statewide. A little more than 17,000 of them are in Riverside County. Felice Connolly, a 70-year-old Homeland woman, has been receiving money from the state to care for her daughter for a dozen years. “I don’t know what the logic is behind their thinking,” Connolly said of state officials. “You’d throw all this population essentially into the street.” 
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