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Human services groups: Budget cuts irresponsible

By Mary Schenk
Friday June 12, 2009

John Dixon

Amy Marchant, executive director of CRIS Senior Services of Vermilion County, talks about the effect proposed state budget cuts could have on her agency, at a press conference Thursday at the Family Service office in Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN – Julia Guth knows all too well the demands of the so-called "Sandwich Generation" – adults who are simultaneously caring for aging parents and their own children.

For nine years, the Urbana woman managed her father's finances and health care as he progressively declined with Alzheimer's disease. She even resigned from her career to care for him.

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