A pregnant Darfuri woman at a refugee camp in Chad, a Latino senior citizen living below the poverty line in the Bronx and an elderly Jewish immigrant from the former Soviet Union living in Boston.
They may not know it, but these individuals are all beneficiaries of programs run by Jewish organizations with public money.
And if Congress can’t reach a deal to avoid the so-called sequester by March 1, many of these programs could be severely scaled back -- if not terminated.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/13/3116666/ahead-of-march-deadline-jewish-groups-bracing-for-sequester-cuts
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