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Las prioridades legislativas de Alabama Arise para 2025

Más de 150 grupos miembros de Alabama Arise y más de 1,500 miembros individuales eligen todos los años nuestras prioridades legislativas. Este proceso garantiza que los habitantes de Alabama más afectados por la pobreza participen de las decisiones. A continuación se enumeran las prioridades que nuestros miembros eligieron para 2025. Para obtener una versión de este [...]
Issues
Budgets, Criminal Justice, Health, Public Transportation, Safety Net, Tax Reform, Voting Rights, Medicaid Expansion
Date
December 23, 2024
Author
Alabama Arise
Blog

The federal policy fights and opportunities ahead for Alabama Arise

Alabama Arise and our members have worked for more than 35 years to push for policies that improve the lives of people struggling to make ends meet. We have remained steadfast in this mission and our values, and we will continue that commitment in the coming years. Arise is deeply concerned about the prospect of [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Safety Net, Tax Reform
Date
December 18, 2024
Author
Carol Gundlach
Blog

Alabama voted. Now let’s organize for a better state

Alabama Arise and our members have worked for more than 35 years to push for state policies that improve the lives of people struggling to make ends meet. We advocate for policies to build an Alabama where everyone has the resources they need to reach their full potential. And we’ve always remained steadfast in this [...]
Issues
Tax Reform, Other, Economic Opportunity, Health, Safety Net
Date
November 8, 2024
Author
Robyn Hyden
Member Resources

Alabama Arise 2025 legislative priorities

More than 150 Alabama Arise member groups and more than 1,500 individual members choose our legislative priorities each year. This process ensures that Alabamians most impacted by poverty have a seat at the table. Below are the priorities that our members selected for 2025. For a PDF version of this document, click here or click [...]
Issues
Budgets, Criminal Justice, Health, Public Transportation, Safety Net, Tax Reform, Voting Rights, Medicaid Expansion
Date
October 23, 2024
Author
Alabama Arise
News Releases

Alabama Arise unveils 2025 roadmap for change in Alabama

Expanding Medicaid and ending the state sales tax on groceries will remain top goals on Alabama Arise’s 2025 legislative agenda. The organization also will advocate for state funds to help public schools provide free breakfast to every student. More than 450 members voted in the last week to affirm Arise’s legislative priorities. The seven priorities [...]
Issues
Budgets, Criminal Justice, Health, Public Transportation, Safety Net, Tax Reform, Voting Rights, Medicaid Expansion
Date
October 9, 2024
Author
Chris Sanders
Blog

How Alabama can build an economy that works for workers

Labor Day is a holiday where we can reflect on the contributions that working people – and the unions that workers form to build power together – have made to the well-being of all people in the United States. These contributions include overtime pay, a five-day workweek, child labor protections and workplace safety standards.

These advances for working people didn’t come easily. Workers won them through strikes, pressure and solidarity. These advances came in the face of overwhelming opposition by bad employers that would have rather seen their workers die than to win workplace democracy.

Issues
Economic Opportunity, Safety Net, Other
Date
August 30, 2024
Author
Dev Wakeley
Fact Sheet

Summer EBT for 2025

A state appropriation for Summer EBT will ensure $40 in food benefits per summer month for more than 500,000 eligible Alabama children ages 5-17.   1 in 4 Alabama children are food insecure. Too many of our children don’t know where their next meal will come from. Because of systemic barriers to food access, a [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Safety Net
Date
August 1, 2024
Author
LaTrell Clifford Wood
Blog

LaTrell Clifford Wood: Arise’s new star at the State House

LaTrell Clifford Wood started as Alabama Arise’s hunger policy advocate in November. Since then, the Stillman College graduate has worked tirelessly to ensure Alabama’s most marginalized residents have access to food. In her role, she advocates directly with lawmakers for legislation that supports getting food to the Alabamians who need it most. She also convenes the Hunger Free Alabama coalition of 88 organizations.

Issues
Safety Net, Health
Date
June 11, 2024
Author
Whitney Washington
Blog

Summer EBT, Legislative Day energy highlight busy, tough 2024 session in Alabama

You made a difference! Alabama Arise members played a decisive role this year in securing summer food assistance for more than 500,000 children starting in summer 2025. Summer EBT funding brought an uplifting conclusion to the Alabama Legislature’s 2024 regular session, which ended May 9. The Summer EBT victory showed the power of Arise’s policy analysis, [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Safety Net, Tax Reform, Economic Opportunity, Medicaid Expansion
Date
June 11, 2024
Author
Chris Sanders
Blog

Arise legislative update: May 13, 2024

Arise's Akiesha Anderson gives a final update on the Alabama Legislature's 2024 regular session, which ended last week. We closed the session with a big advocacy win: Lawmakers approved the funding needed to provide Summer EBT food assistance for more than 500,000 children starting next summer! For more information about what happened this year, please [...]
Issues
Health, Safety Net, Budgets
Date
May 13, 2024
Author
Whitney Washington