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Take Action with ES2 ES2 Legislative Action Day - Flier Please join us in Albany on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 for our Legislative Education and Action Day (LEAD). Free seats are available for the buses leaving from lower Manhattan and the South Bronx. Contact Jessica Song for additional information or to RSVP: jsong@fpwa.org, 212-801-1315.! November 2011 Newsletter ! Albany visit: ES2 Legislative Talking Points The ES2 Coordinating Committee visited Albany on 9/26 to talk about priority items we wanted to see included in the Governor's budget for next year. Click to see our legislative talking points!! State Budget Alert Please call Assembly member Keith Wright, (518 455-4793 Albany) - Chair of the Joint Conference Committee on Labor and Human Services:
Key message: Don't delay the welfare grant hike. Thank you for opposing full family sanctions for welfare participants. Please increase funding for jobs programs for welfare participants. Make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
Additional message. Help free up child care slots by suspending work requirements for welfare families with children under the age of 2. Raise the state minimum wage to $10 an hour. Instead of giving the $14 billion from the stock transfer tax to Wall Street speculators, use it to create 500,000 public community jobs.
You can also call Assemblymember Michele Titus (518-455-5668), the new chair of the Assembly Social Services Committee, and Assemblymember Speaker Sheldon Silver. (518 455-3791)
! ES2 Legislative Education and Action Day Join ES2 in Albany for our Legislative Education and Action Day, Monday, March 1, 2011.
Help us Demand:
* Funding for Jobs Now
* No budget cuts for homeless, welfare grant, jobs
* Education and job training
* Single Payer Health Care for NYS
* Funding for Housing Investment
Let's Make Our Voices Heard at the State Capital!
To Register, call 212-741-8192 downstate
or 518-434-7371 upstate, or fill out the form.! |
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State Economic Security Campaign (ES2) c/o Hunger Action Network of New York State 260 West 36th Street, Suite 504 New York, NY 10018 Phone: 212-741-8192 ext. 0# / Fax: 212-741-7236 info@hungeractionnys.org |
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