Alabama Political Reporter: Cover Alabama calls on Gov. Ivey to close health care gap “We implore you to recognize the urgency and importance surrounding prioritizing the health and well-being of our state’s residents by taking immediate action to close the health care coverage gap," Arise's Debbie Smith said in a letter to Gov. Kay Ivey. |
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Alabama Public Radio: Alabama advocates push for Medicaid expansion in a letter to Governor Kay Ivey
“If we expanded Medicaid, those 300,000 people are going to have better quality of life, and it's going to save lives. But in addition to that, it's going to help our workforce,” Arise's Debbie Smith told Alabama Public Radio. |
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AL.com: Advocates count wins, losses from Alabama legislative session
“We do have hopes that we will continue that movement and that next year we will finally be able to close the coverage gap,” Arise's Jennifer Harris told AL.com. |
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Alabama Political Reporter: Alabama Senate approves $10M for Child Summer EBT funding
“Every child needs and deserves healthy meals throughout the year,” Arise's LaTrell Clifford Wood said. |
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WSFA 12, Montgomery: Summer EBT program could feed over 500K Alabama children, 1 advocacy group says
The scope and scale of Summer EBT could make it "the most effective program at addressing food hardship thus far," Arise's LaTrell Clifford Wood said. |
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Alabama Reflector: Millions in federal aid for Alabama low-income families remains unused
“Really in 1996, Congress, for all intents and purposes, eliminated TANF as a national anti-poverty program, and it’s just a ghost of what it was before,” Arise's Carol Gundlach told the Alabama Reflector. |
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Alabama Political Reporter: Proposed 2024 Farm Bill would cut SNAP benefits by nearly $30 billion
“SNAP cuts would harm children, older adults, veterans, and people with disabilities across Alabama, and they would make it harder for working families to keep food on the table,” Arise’s Chris Sanders told the Alabama Political Reporter. |
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Alabama Reflector: U.S. 11th Circuit Court rejects Alabama death row inmate’s appeals “There is a lot of evidence that shows that the death penalty is applied arbitrarily and in a racially disproportionate manner,” Arise's Mike Nicholson said to the Alabama Reflector. “Those things can be mitigated extensively with unanimous jury sentencing.” |
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Alabama Reflector: General Fund grows, but Medicaid and Corrections consume more of it
“We have seen a lot of the cost of the criminal justice system, including the courts, getting shifted to fees that are assessed against people who use the court system as opposed to a General Fund appropriation, which is really harmful in all kinds of ways,” Arise's Carol Gundlach said. “I think it distorts justice.” |
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Bloomberg Law: Red state bills resisting UAW growth risk labor law override
A new state law forbidding companies from receiving state tax incentives if they voluntarily recognize a union is a step in the wrong direction for workplace relationships, Arise’s Dev Wakeley told Bloomberg Law. “It’s a lot more sensible to implement a cooperative process such as voluntary recognition,” he said. |
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Alabama Reflector: What Mercedes workers are looking for as a union vote approaches
"The study found further disparities in wages between men and women, and white workers and workers of color. Dev Wakeley, worker policy advocate at Arise, said Monday that unionization could help with these disparities," Jemma Stephenson reported in the Alabama Reflector. |
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Reckon: UAW and Southern auto jobs: Why it matters, even if you don’t own a car
"We need a New South economic structure based on fairness and equity," Arise's Dev Wakeley wrote in a joint op-ed with the Institute for Policy Studies. "Organized labor is an essential partner in that mission." |
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