Advocates for the developmentally disabled filled the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday to rally for adequate funding for service providers.
One speaker, Sarah Graham of Duet Nebraska, said that her agency has been forced to close eight to nine group homes and shutter a long-running day service center because of inadequate state reimbursement for services.
Despite a funding increase two years ago, Graham said she’s only able to pay her front-line workers $16 an hour, when today’s “living wage” for a single person is more than $20 an hour.