Health and Human Service Network of California
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]