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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
Voting Rights, Medicaid Expansion, Budgets, Criminal Justice, Health, Public Transportation, Safety Net, Tax Reform
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
Tax Reform, Voting Rights, Medicaid Expansion, Budgets, Criminal Justice, Health, Public Transportation, Safety Net
Date
October 9, 2024
Author
Chris Sanders
Blog

Here’s what Alabama Arise heard in 2024!

Alabama Arise listens because we deeply value the input we get from members, partners and most importantly, those directly affected by the work we do together. We depend on what we hear to help guide our issue work and our strategies. We held two virtual statewide Town Hall Tuesdays this summer, and each featured three [...]
Issues
Public Transportation, Tax Reform, Economic Opportunity, Voting Rights, Medicaid Expansion, Budgets, Criminal Justice, Health, Housing
Date
September 19, 2024
Author
Presdelane Harris
Resources

VIDEO: The path forward in Arise’s work to untax groceries

On Labor Day weekend in 2023, Alabama’s state grocery tax reduction finally became a reality. The 1-cent decline in the sales tax on food brought welcome news to Alabamians who are struggling to make ends meet. And it marked a milestone in Alabama Arise’s work to build a more just and equitable tax system for [...]
Issues
Budgets, Tax Reform, Other
Date
August 30, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus
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
Economic Opportunity, Medicaid Expansion, Budgets, Health, Safety Net, Tax Reform
Date
June 11, 2024
Author
Chris Sanders
Blog

Arise legislative update: March 25, 2024

While the Alabama Legislature is on spring break this week, Arise's Akiesha Anderson takes some time to update everyone on what's happened recently and what's on the horizon when lawmakers return next week. Akiesha also talks about our upcoming Legislative Day, scheduled for Tuesday, April 2. Full video transcript Hi there. Akiesha Anderson here, policy [...]
Issues
Tax Reform, Voting Rights, Medicaid Expansion
Date
March 25, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus
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
Voting Rights, Health, Safety Net, Tax Reform
Date
March 18, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus
Blog

Grocery tax, protecting voting rights among Arise priorities for 2024 session

The Alabama Legislature began its second regular session of the current quadrennium on Feb. 6. Lawmakers already have voted on numerous hot-button issues early in this session, and Alabama Arise anticipates that trend may continue. The upcoming presidential election, Alabama’s early primary date and other political factors may color what legislative leaders prioritize this year. [...]
Issues
Criminal Justice, Public Transportation, Tax Reform, Voting Rights
Date
March 7, 2024
Author
Akiesha Anderson
Blog

Arise legislative update: March 4, 2024

Arise's Akiesha Anderson gives a rundown on a plethora of bills we are monitoring on voting rights, education funding and other issues as we begin the fifth week of the Alabama Legislature's 2024 regular session. As a reminder, you can always visit alarise.org and click on "Take Action" to see a list of our action [...]
Issues
Tax Reform, Voting Rights, Budgets, Criminal Justice
Date
March 4, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus
Blog

Arise legislative update: Feb. 20, 2024

Arise's Akiesha Anderson provides updates on all the bills that moved last week and previews what's to come this week in the Alabama Legislature. Topics include a harmful bill that would create barriers to absentee voting, efforts to preserve child labor protections, the future of the state sales tax on groceries and the CHOOSE Act, [...]
Issues
Tax Reform, Economic Opportunity, Voting Rights
Date
February 20, 2024
Author
Matt Okarmus