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Number crunchers for King County are getting ready for budget cuts. They're reaching out to labor unions, environmental groups, and public safety workers to say, how would you do it? Human service agencies got their turn last night. KUOW's Phyllis Fletcher has more.

This video, redistributed with permission from Comcast, is an interview with Ron Bernstein, executive director of Foundations Community Partnership, a behavioral health organization in Bucks County, PA.FCP aspires to be a catalyst for improving the quality of life in Bucks County. We are committed to developing community-focused, youth-based service learning opportunities, providing grants and scholarships, and supporting community education, research and training. FCP promotes innovative services to improve the lives of residents in the community, with a special emphasis on young people. We are forging active partnerships with the public and private sectors to continue the community-based programs started by our predecessor organization, Foundations Behavioral Health, with the goal of creating new initiatives. With our commitment to identifying needs and problem solving, we will communicate and deliver these services through research, education, publication and collaborative approaches.

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While 45% of all children in the United States are receiving some form of public medical assistance, 9 million children are not covered by either public or private health care. The State Children's Health Insurance Program -- or SCHIP -- is a block grant from the federal government to cover those low-income children, but the fund is running out of money. NOW investigates how SCHIP's future is caught up in a battle between those who think the government insures too many kids, and those who think it's not doing enough.

In the voting booth this fall, voters in states across the country will find ballot initiatives with titles like "Taxpayers' Bill of Rights" and "SOS - Stop Over Spending." The aim is to slash state spending, including deep cuts in health care, education and other social services. But are these local initiatives really "home" grown? NOW investigates how one wealthy New Yorker is secretly providing major funding for these and other ballot measures way outside his neighborhood, in states across the country. NOW also takes a look at the questionable tactics used to put these issues on your ballot. Is someone manipulating your state's laws, your vote, and you?