Description: Because of 60% cut in state funding for family planning, agencies worry about providing adequate contraceptive services, especially to teens. Doctor demonstrates birth control device in clinic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/08/1989
Description: In six years, state has spent $50 million on shelters for homeless people to make up for gap in affordable housing once funded by federal programs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/05/1989
Description: Brookline takes state to court in battle for local aid. Cherry sheets. Brookline police car and fire engine. Harold Raynolds, education commissioner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/03/1989
Description: Chancellor Franklyn Jenifer tells Board of Regents of $50 million state budget cut in higher education. Roger van Winkle, president of Mass. Bay Community College.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1989
Description: School superintendents hold press conference to lament cuts in education budget. Harold Raynolds, education commissioner. High school and middle school classrooms.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1989
Description: Rep. David Magnani reluctantly favors proposed tax increases because of dire need for revenue to support state spending programs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1989
Description: Diagnostic program for mentally ill homeless people is endangered by cut in state funding. Pine Street Inn sign and interior. Zoom in to State House up Park Street hill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/27/1989
Description: With Santa, Dukakis hands out Christmas gifts to children at a family shelter. Comments on mandate to resolve budget crisis soon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989
Description: Michael Dukakis visits sewage pumping station, where he warns that current year's budget is still badly out of balance while legislature is trying to settle next year's.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1989
Description: Michael Dukakis press conference to announce drastic line item vetoes to balance FY90 budget. Calls $500 million cuts "worst thing I've ever had to do in my political career." Mothers with children protest at Dukakis' office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1989