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Have a Heart for Kids Day: 2011 Special Session
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 10:00am
Children's Alliance 2011 Special Session Have a Heart for Kids day is Friday, December 2, 2011. This is your opportunity to bring your voice directly to your legislators as they return to Olympia to balance the budget.
The budget cuts’ impact on kids
Submitted on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 10:54
It’s the worst we’ve seen.
That’s our assessment of new cuts to state services. The across-the-board budget reductions are more severe than anything we’ve experienced recently. They’re also being made in an extremely challenging context.
The budget that was finalized this spring, during the last legislative session, did not anticipate the persistently slow economy. And, rather than our elected representatives deliberating in public over cuts, these decisions are being made by the Governor in consultation with agency secretaries and assistant secretaries. They are decisions as momentous as any made during the last legislative session, only without legislators convening to hear and represent their constituents’ concerns.
2009 Legislative Agenda
Created on: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 5:28pm
The Children's Alliance 2009 Legislative Agenda lays out our top priorities in this tough legislative session.
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New poll should make legislators hungry to protect State Food Assistance
Submitted on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 05:34
Last week’s national poll results on food stamps should make Washington legislators take notice.
The poll found overwhelming support from voters for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, known universally as food stamps.
Along with tens of thousands of Washington children benefitting from SNAP, more than 12,000 children in our state depend on a form of food stamps called State Food Assistance – one of the vital programs lawmakers may cut.
The poll, conducted in the second week of January, is a strong indication that cutting SFA would be enormously unpopular:
Hungry Children Need State Food Assistance
Created on: Friday, January 6, 2012 - 3:01pm
Every child needs access to good nutrition in order to learn, grow and thrive. But the number of hungry Washington households has nearly doubled since 2007. State Food Assistance ensures equal treatment of our state's hungry;eliminating SFA would further disrupt the lives of thousands of children – disproportionately children of color – all across the state.
Learn more about State Food Assistance.
Legislative Agenda: 2012 session
Created on: Monday, January 2, 2012 - 3:15pm
Our 2012 legislative agenda calls on lawmakers to:
- Protect Apple Health for Kids and State Food Assistance;
- Reject further budget cuts that hurt low-income families and children of color;
- Improve health with a licensed dental practitioner;
- Close the opportunity gap with early learning;
- Raise revenue to protect our future.
Download and print our 2012 legislative agenda.
Proclamation by the Children of Washington State
Created on: Monday, December 12, 2011 - 4:27pm
On Dec. 2, 2011, Children's Alliance gathered hundreds across the state on Capitol steps to issue a statement to lawmakers signed by Washington's kids.
Read our Proclamation by the Children of Washington State: For Us, By Us, For Our Future.
The State of Washington's Children
Created on: Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 10:13pm
The State of Washington’s Children 2012 is a broad review of how Washington’s 1.5 million kids are faring in tough times. The report is issued by KIDS COUNT in Washington, a new partnership between Children’s Alliance and the Washington State Budget & Policy Center.
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Media Release: Hundreds of Kids, advocates to deliver Special Session children’s proclamation
Posted on: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 9:20am
Wednesday, November 30 – The first week of Special Session will have a memorable closing day on Friday in Olympia, when hundreds of kids, parents, and advocates stand together at Children’s Alliance’s Have a Heart for Kids Day: 2011 Special Session. This will culminate in a rally with parent and youth speakers, and a Proclamation by the Children of Washington released and delivered to legislators.
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Budget cut proposals fall heavily on kids
Submitted on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 20:30
Governor Chris Gregoire’s revenue proposals are a step in the right direction. If passed by voters in March, a half-penny sales tax increase would help protect children from further harm. Closing tax loopholes makes our state government more accountable and makes sure wealthy interests do their part to build a healthy future.
Still, even if all of the tax changes Gov. Gregoire is advocating are enacted, they would still fall short of protecting crucial education, health care and public safety programs. And that would put children at risk.
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