Health and Human Service Network of California
Over 150 people from 65 different nonprofits and advocacy organizations gathered at the Santa Cruz County Courthouse on April 13 to call on state legislators to close corporate tax loopholes to save public services. Protesters waved signs, chanted and enjoyed a bit of street theater.
Inside, the County Board of Supervisors was approving a first-in-the-state resolution [...]
Corporate Tax Loopholes Need to be Closed!
WOW! Nearly 40 members of Community Resources for Independent Living, Parent Voices, and other community people took their California Family Recovery Budget message out to the Pleasanton Tea Party event at the Alameda County Fairgrounds today (April 15). Television cameras were VERY interested in us, especially after the Tea [...]
Education Finance, Tuesday April 13
Parent Voices members who would be affected by cuts to child care funding made a powerful statement before the Assembly Budget Sub-Committee #2 today – in fact, they changed the whole dynamic in the room, according to one veteran observer.
Their testimony explained how child care cuts meant more than just the [...]
The California Partnership, Bay Area Budget Coalition and the statewide Health and Human Services Network joined 150 people on a march through downtown Oakland on April 5. Organized by the Alameda County Central Labor Council, the march and rally called for big banks to invest in our communities and create good jobs locally. The march [...]