Quote of the Day | January 23, 2019

“It’s really important for our leadership to know in Washington it’s affecting people all the way down to the street, to our formerly chronically homeless individuals — people affected by serious mental illness, many of them veterans.”

-Mental Health Association Oklahoma Executive Director Mike Brose, discussing how their supportive housing program is short $61,000 this month because they are not receiving federal grants during the government shutdown [Source: Public Radio Tulsa]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gene Perry worked for OK Policy from 2011 to 2019. He is a native Oklahoman and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in history and an M.A. in journalism.

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