We wanted to make you all aware that LeadingAge is making its Congressional call-in line available through the end of the day tomorrow for people to call Congress and urge them not to repeal CLASS. Continue reading ‘Calling All Supporters of the CLASS Program!’
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Medicaid provides critical supports for millions of people in the U.S., including 3 million elders and people with disabilities. It’s also a major funder of jobs for direct-care workers.
Yet a congressional “super committee” threatens to slash Medicaid’s budget, robbing those people of necessary care — and killing jobs for the workers who provide that care.
PHI is asking you to tell the Super Committee to spare Medicaid from drastic cuts! Continue reading ‘Tell the Super Committee to Reject Medicaid Cuts!’
Tens of millions of people in the U.S. are unable to find work.
The national poverty level is at a 52-year high.
And a “super committee” of federal lawmakers is set to propose more than $1 trillion worth of budget cuts to numerous critical programs, including Medicaid.
The time to act is now, and it has never been more urgent.
Next week, Caring Across Generations and other national organizations are launching an important organizing effort to tell Congress that that we need Jobs, Not Cuts!
On Tuesday, October 4, join community leaders, activists, and health care advocates in a telephone briefing to learn more their plan to send a strong, unified, pro-jobs message to Congress during the upcoming National Week of Action (October 10-14).
Our representatives and senators need to know that we demand Jobs, Not Cuts!
Other organizations involved in this effort include Alliance for a Just Society, Campaign for Community Change, Community Catalyst, National Domestic Workers Alliance, HCAN, National People’s Action, PICO National Network, and SEIU.
For more information about this effort, contact PHI Government Affairs Director Carol Regan.
Show your support for Medicaid by joining thousands of advocates at a Capitol Hill rally next Wednesday, September 21! Continue reading ‘Rally to Defend Medicaid Next Week!’
The congressional “Super Committee” tasked with proposing $1.5 trillion in federal budget cuts meets for the first time tomorrow — and it looks like they have Medicaid firmly in their sights. Continue reading ‘Why Medicaid Matters to the Congressional “Super Committee”’
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