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Budget Targets for the Governor during Faithful Fridays events

6/17/2014

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Dear Friends:

While the budget just passed by the legislature has significant holes in it – by far too little restored for those in need – some significant improvements have been achieved.

In Home Supportive Services  (IHSS)) that helps family members stay home and be paid to care for their elderly or disabled relatives has won a major victory.  Federal law mandates overtime above 40 hours per week, and the Governor proposed capping hours at 40 then forcing people to hire a different person for time above that.

People needing intimate care would have had strangers in the house rather than be tended by those who love them.

Persistence from you – from speaking up at Faithful Fridays events and contacts – has led the Legislature to include both a guarantee not to cap hours and the money to pay overtime!

The Governor probably won’t veto this because it is in a budget ‘trailer bill’ that sets policy to be compliant with budget items to which he has agreed.

However – take nothing for granted.

Contact the Governor and affirm that this IHSS agreement is essential to the moral good of those needing help and also to saving costs by preventing the care provider from having to end the service and find another job.

Forced dislocation of care givers could result in those with disabilities being institutionalize which is vastly more expensive to the state and to the humanity of the person so relocated.

Governor Jerry Brown has made contacting his office much more difficult than his predecessors had.  He has closed several regional offices leaving only the Capitol, Los Angeles, and San Francisco as locations.  We encourage those who can to visit these offices, but there are other means for those who cannot.

Governor Jerry Brown:

State Capitol, First Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814.
916-445-2841.  FAX: 916-558-3160


300 S. Spring Street, Suite 16701, Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-897-0322.  FAX: 213-897-0319


455 Golden Gate Ave., Suite 14000, San Francisco, CA 94102
415-703-2218.  FAX: 415-703-2803


Direct email from you via online form: https://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

We encourage your congregation to speak to the whole budget and/or specific issues.  Since the Governor has line-item veto power, individual items such as IHSS may be upheld as single items. We further encourage those of you distant from the offices to use Sunday “FAX Parties” to write letters you FAX on weekends or evenings.  The FAX numbers are notoriously overloaded during the weekday hours.

Remind the Governor that serving justice for those in need is an essential test of a stable government in a democracy.  Abandoning those who have already been discarded by too much of society increases instability and immorality among us.

Thank you for letting your voices be heard and keeping the ‘Faithful Fridays’ messages alive!

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Muslim Youth Leadership Program App Deadline is Next Week

6/13/2014

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CAIR-CA

presents

10th annual Muslim Youth Leadership Program (MYLP):

Empowering the Youth of Today to Become the Leaders of Tomorrow

Application available at: bit.ly/MYLP2014

Application deadline: June 16, 2014

Are you in high school and looking to learn skills that can help you become an active leader in the community?

MYLP will give you the skills and tools that are needed to become one of the leaders of tomorrow!

The Muslim Youth Leadership Program (MYLP) is a four-day intensive political immersion and leadership building retreat in Sacramento from August 7th -August 10th that will provide an in-depth understanding of the legislative process, as well as hands-on training in the areas of civic engagement and media advocacy.

For more information, visit ca.cair.com/mylp or contact us at
916.441.6269, info@sacval.cair.com


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This Week’s Faithful Friday Work Remains the Budget – Restore Funding for Those in Need

6/10/2014

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Dear Friends:

The state legislature, Assembly and Senate, have to finish and pass the budget by Sunday June 15. This is coming up very soon!

It is essential that we keep our voices strong for restoring funding for those whom the private sector cannot help or whom they have abandoned. The Governor wants to do the same, and the only way to challenge that is with support at the Assembly and Senate for budget justice.

Over the past years we have cut, cut, cut the programs supporting the poor. We now also find that those providing In Home Supportive Services to their loved ones are going to be cut back to avoid our paying the federally mandated overtime. IHSS is paid out of the budget but saves billions for those who otherwise would be institutionalized.

Can you imagine the problem of finding night workers to come tend your agining or disabled relative when you, their IHSS provider, could do it with a little more money? Losing that time means losing that income, too. Urge the funding of overtime hours for IHSS. It’s the right thing for those who no longer can help themselves. They should not have to find strangers to do this work for and with them.

Restore cash grants for those working their way out of poverty on CalWORKs. Cash amounts today won’t even cover rent, never mind other things such as pencils and paper for your children’s schoolwork.

Raise the eligibility for Low Income Heating Assistance because it will restore Food Stamps – CalFresh – as well. Federal guidelines require CA to pay more to more people in energy assistance to also keep 80,000 of them eligible for food assistance. We can do this.

Go to your local Assembly or Senate office and let them know that the very poor among us deserve equity, too.

To find your contact information for local offices and phones – if you cannot go, CALL – go to: http://www.churchimpact.org/take-action.html

Tell your officials you are part of “Faithful Fridays” and that you urge their inclusion of safety net funding restoration NOW.


Thank you!

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Faithful Fridays Continue – Raise Your Voice for Budget Equality!

6/4/2014

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Faithful Fridays in California Continue!

Dear Friends:

We are encouraging your continued work on “Faithful Fridays”, our version of the North Carolina “Moral Mondays”.

Since it’s almost impossible for most of you to get to our Capitol every week, we encourage you to take your voices to your local officials right there in your district. Now that the primary election is over, they will be in their home offices or will have staff available to hear you.

We are still pressing the budget issues.  With the vote due June 15, it is essential that we lift our voices for restoring part of the safety net that got shredded over the past years of scarcity and loss of revenue.

We urge you to speak to one-third of the surplus – $4 BILLION dollars – being used to pay overtime for In Home Supportive Services caretakers who are about to be reduced in hours and pay; for childcare funding; for expansion of CalWORKs cash assistance, or whatever your local issues may be.

Make an appointment with your state representatives at their district office or just arrive with signs, with petitions, with letters, with songs letting them know that a moral budget cares for people at least as much as for reducing our debt and setting up a rainy day fund.

For help finding the nearest office please go to: http://www.churchimpact.org/take-action.html

Let us know what you’re doing, and don’t forget to tell your local media either.  “Faithful Fridays” is how we can let our elected officials know what we believe is important!

Thank you!

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