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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
Safety Net, Other, Economic Opportunity
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
Health, Safety Net
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
Budgets, Health, Safety Net
Date
May 13, 2024
Author
Whitney Washington
Blog

Arise legislative update: May 6, 2024

We welcome Arise's LaTrell Clifford Wood to this week's legislative recap to celebrate some good news: The Senate added $10 million to the Education Trust Fund budget for Summer EBT food assistance! Once the House agrees to this change with this modified budget and the governor signs off on it, the funding will start in [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Safety Net
Date
May 6, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus
News Releases

Summer EBT funding is a big win for Alabama’s children

The Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to appropriate $10 million for Summer EBT administrative funding from the 2025 Education Trust Fund budget. Alabama Arise hunger policy advocate LaTrell Clifford Wood released the following statement Tuesday in response: “Every child needs and deserves healthy meals throughout the year. That’s why Alabama [...]
Issues
Economic Opportunity, Budgets, Health, Safety Net
Date
April 30, 2024
Author
Chris Sanders
Blog

Arise legislative update: April 29, 2024

Arise's Akiesha Anderson provides an update on where things stand in the final days of the Alabama Legislature's 2024 regular session. Unfortunately, we received unfavorable news last week on public transportation funding and legislation that would discourage employers from voluntarily recognizing a union. But we also have good news: Alabama lawmakers heard Medicaid expansion success [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Public Transportation, Safety Net, Medicaid Expansion
Date
April 29, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus
Fact Sheet

Summer EBT for 2025

A $15 million appropriation for Summer EBT would reduce hunger by providing eligible Alabama children $40 per summer month for food. 1 in 4 Alabama children are food insecure. Hundreds of thousands of Alabama children don’t know where their next meal will come from. And a disproportionate amount of food insecure children come from communities [...]
Issues
Economic Opportunity, Budgets, Health, Safety Net
Date
April 2, 2024
Author
Alabama Arise Action
Blog

Arise legislative update: March 18, 2024

The Alabama Legislature is coming back into session after taking off last week. Arise's Akiesha Anderson provides updates on what's happened most recently -- including unfortunate news on anti-DEI legislation -- and gets you ready for another busy week ahead. Legislation we're monitoring this week includes a bill to reform Alabama's felony murder rule and [...]
Issues
Health, Safety Net, Tax Reform, Voting Rights
Date
March 18, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus