The cost of cuts: Special reports from the Kansas Health Institute

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson says the state faces its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression — and it’s not over.

“The cuts we are making now are to basic services,” Parkinson said last week.

While we’re waiting to see how the math whizzes in the state legislature try to solve the problem without doing anything that could hurt their re-election chances, the journalists at the Kansas Health Institute are doing some great reporting on how hard state budget cuts are likely to hurt real people.