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An initiative to help transgender people find and keep jobs in San
Francisco may still be in trouble, despite the support of several local
lawmakers.
The three-year-old program was temporarily saved from
budget cuts when the San Francisco Human Services Commission voted
unanimously on April 22 to keep the Transgender Economic Empowerment
Initiative fully funded. According to the Los
Angeles Times, half of the program's $450,000 budget comes
from the city, a small drop in the bucket compared to the city's $483
million budget hole.
While the line item was secured in the
commission's section of the city budget, a spokesman for Mayor Gavin
Newsom said, "There will be some very tough and unpleasant choices that
the mayor is going to have to make" before the budget heads to the board
of supervisors June 1. He also added even with backing from several
community organizers, the chair of the Human Rights Commission, and one
of the supervisors, no single program has a complete guarantee for
survival.
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