Domestic violence murder rates are at an all time high, but advocates are concerned they may not be able to keep providing the services communities depend on due to major funding issues.
Just to be clear about that, it wasn’t just this organization, lots of domestic violence shelters and support orgs across the country lost federal funding recently when Congress cut the budget for the Victims of Crime Act. Like, here’s another news story from South Carolina all about that same problem playing out there,
Yeah, I didn’t bother to mention it because it was unrelated to the BLM stuff, but it really sucks for them. Definitely a lot going wrong at once. And it sounds like there’s a pretty deep need where they’re at too.
They also lost federal funds unrelated to their BLM support. Looks like death by a thousand paper cuts.
Just to be clear about that, it wasn’t just this organization, lots of domestic violence shelters and support orgs across the country lost federal funding recently when Congress cut the budget for the Victims of Crime Act. Like, here’s another news story from South Carolina all about that same problem playing out there,
https://web.archive.org/web/20240515182502/https://www.wistv.com/2024/04/27/crime-victims-services-risk-40-federal-funding-cut/
Yeah, I didn’t bother to mention it because it was unrelated to the BLM stuff, but it really sucks for them. Definitely a lot going wrong at once. And it sounds like there’s a pretty deep need where they’re at too.