March 7, 2010
How a Domestic-Violence Group Copes With Unreliable Support From the State
Dennis McCoy/Sacramento Business Journal
A budget gap forced Beth Hassert’s charity to lay off its legal department.
Sacramento
In a bid to help close a gaping state budget hole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last summer vetoed $16.3-million that state legislators had approved for domestic-violence shelters.
When efforts to restore the money foundered, Beth Hassett, executive director of Weave, a group in Sacramento that provides services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, concluded she had no choice but to dismantle her three-person legal department.
On a Monday in October, she laid
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