Health and Human Service Network of California
This Thursday in Sacramento, I got some insight into the “Budget Speak” used by those who choose corporate tax cuts over family economic recovery, when I attended a workshop with Seren M. Taylor, staff director of the Senate Republican Fiscal Office, at the CA Budget Project Conference. Here are some of the [...]
(Health and Human Services) Hearing Wed March 24, 2010
“Toll on Californians of Adopted and Proposed Health and Human Services Cuts”
Yesterday, community representatives from SPIN, CAP, Parent Voices, United Health Workers, Health Access and many others witnessed an amazing display of uninformative responses from agency representatives about the human toll of [...]
HHS Advocates are working hard on two federal priorities for California families, the state budget crisis, and our economic recovery:
1. FMAP
The enhanced federal share of MediCaid, or FMAP, was passed in last year’s Recovery Act, or stimulus, and protects our state’s MediCal program in two ways: provides a greater share of federal [...]
Here’s the scoop:
We are a diverse network of old and new allies across the state. We came together this year because we all share three policy goals:
Protect and invest in the safety net;
Find alternative resources to invest in our families, economy, and State; and
Advance reforms to our broken budget process – including [...]