RESULTS Blog  Follow us via RSS and Twitter!Keep up with RESULTS’ poverty fighting actions around the world! Subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter. Learn more. At any given moment, RESULTS staff and activists around the world are busy working with their elected officials, local media, or working within their communities to realize a world without poverty. Hear their stories here!August 2010 RESULTS Domestic Conference Call: Being Strategic with Our Messages and ActionsBy Meredith Dodson, Director of Domestic (U.S. Poverty) Campaigns The August Domestic national conference call focused on strategic actions during the summer recess as members of Congress are back home to push for critical investments in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC). In September, Congress will make key decisions on tax priorities, and it’s critical that the stimulus bill expansions to the EITC and CTC be included in tax legislation. The call reviewed strategic actions to take over the August recess, and included important insights on messaging from Mike Owen of the Iowa Policy Project. Listen to our August 2010 RESULTS Domestic Conference Call: Being Strategic with Our Messages and Actions to Support Tax Credits for Low-Income Working Families for all the details and Read More. Keywords: 5 Comments Medicaid Funding for States Closer to PassageBy Jos Linn and Meredith Dodson Yesterday, after months of trying, the Senate passed a bill that would provide temporary funding to states to help with Medicaid and teachers’ salaries. The vote was 61-39. As you know in 2009, Congress passed a temporary funding increase for Medicaid to help states maintain the program during the economic downturn; that funding runs out in December. However, states are still facing severe budget challenges and have requested an extension of this funding while the economy continues to recover. This bill would extend this funding another 6 months. Without it, states will be forced to cut vital services and lay off thousands of workers. Read More. Keywords: 6 Comments Tell House to Do Child Nutrition RightBy Jos Linn and Meredith Dodson In 2010, RESULTS has been pushing Congress to pass a strong reauthorization of child nutrition programs. The House went on recess last week with the intention of voting on their bill, The Senate however passed its bill. There are now rumors that the House may vote on the Senate bill when it comes back instead of debating and voting on its own bill.The House bill allocates more funding for child nutrition and has yet to determine its offsets. If they simply approve the Senate bill, they will be cutting off any opportunity to correct the Senate's mistake. They will also be short-changing hungry children not once, but twice — once with the lower funding level and twice by cutting SNAP funding to pay for it. TAKE ACTION: Tell the House to finish its own child nutrition bill. Read More. Keywords: 5 Comments Be Inspired and Generate Media In Your Community!By Ken Patterson Teresa Rugg highlights what turned out to be a great media hook for her to get an article published in her local paper. She provides a great example of how to have fun, be inspired, generate media, and get the admiration and respect of your RESULTS peers. Read More. Keywords: 5 Comments |