Other human services agencies are also seeing rising demand, and they’re bracing for more. Their anxiety was palpable at the recent quarterly meeting of the West Mountain Regional Health Alliance, a forum for health care, mental health, and food security organizations in our three-county area.
The chief worry for everyone in attendance: the massive federal budget reconciliation bill (aka the One Big Beautiful Bill) that was signed into law on July 4.
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