Health and Human Service Network of California
Advocates from the Health and Human Services Network of California voiced their support for a new $4.9 billion revenue solutions package introduced by Senate Democrats on Monday.
Advocates say these combined revenue solutions would allow the state to forego harmful cuts proposed in the Governor’s May Revise budget, in turn saving the state hundreds of thousands [...]
More than 150 community leaders and advocates from all over the state converged on the Capitol to take a stand against hunger in California. The event was part of the California Hunger Action Coalition’s (CHAC) annual, Hunger Action Day.
The advocates participated in hearings focused on hunger, poverty and budget cuts, providing personal testimony on wide-range [...]
More than 75 Californians from all across the state joined Parent Voices in the Capitol on Thursday to voice their concerns and give public testimony before the California State Assembly Budget Subcommittee #1 and 2 on the devastating impacts of Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed May Revise budget.
Parents, child-care providers and others from San Francisco, Los Angeles, [...]
Two dozen seniors from the California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA), California’s largest grassroots senior advocacy organization representing over 850,000 seniors and their families, delivered over 500 handwritten letters to State Assemblymembers and Senators today, as part of the “10,000 by May 10 & Beyond” campaign, organized by the Health and Human [...]
On Tuesday (May, dozens of Californians from the Bay Area, Vacaville, Lincoln, Loomis and the Capitol joined together in the Capitol to express their serious concerns over the Governor’s May Revise budget, which includes devastating cuts to California’s vital health and human services safety net – including proposals for the wholesale elimination of CalWORKS.
Participants met [...]
From Sacramento Bee (May 17, 2010)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday proposed eliminating funding for CalWORKS, the state’s welfare system, as a way to help close the state’s budget gap. Most CalWORKS recipients are children — roughly 1.1 million kids under 18 are supported by welfare. The cuts would affect some counties much [...]
On Friday (May 14th), Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to unveil his May Revise budget — which (according to a spokesman for the Governor) is anticipated to include “terrible cuts” to California’s basic health and human services. In response, several leading experts and advocates from the HHS Network of California, issued the following statements condemning [...]
For too long, Californians have been at the mercy of a secretive, closed-door budget process that, year after year, has proven only to benefit some of the wealthiest corporations in the form of massive corporate tax breaks and dubious loopholes.
And what do WE have to show for it?
Only billions of dollars cut from our [...]