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California's poor thrown under the yacht

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Rob Archer
Aug 26, 2007
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California finally has a budget, several weeks late.

The Governator signed a budget which terminates a $55-million program that advocates say has helped thousands of mentally ill homeless people break the costly cycle of hospitalization, jails and street life.

Also cut: $1.3 million to track hospital efforts to eliminate infections, which kill more than 7…

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