Families worry plan to freeze Family Care enrollment would hurt disabled

Families are deeply worried about a state budget proposal to cap enrollment in Family Care, the state’s long-term care and community-based support program for people with disabilities and the elderly. Several families took take part in a press conference Thursday at the Thompson Community Center. Wisconsin Families Forward, a newly formed group that opposes the cost-saving measure, organized the event along with similar ones in Madison and Milwaukee. (APPLETON POST CRESCENT, 6/10)