Low-income kids hardest hit by Calif. cuts

California is on the verge of transforming how it helps its most vulnerable citizens: the poor, the disabled and the elderly. Their safety net will be severely scaled back, under the budget deal Governor Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders hammered out Monday.

"The legislative leaders said that they saved the safety net. But the actual details suggests that the safety net has been shredded," said Anthony Wright, Health Access.

Low-income children will be among the hardest hit. Welfare-to-Work moms who keep failing to fulfill job requirements, for instance, used to be able to get cash assistance for just their kids. But with the proposed cut to CalWORKs slated to be over half-a-billion dollars, the state would completely cut off the family.

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