We urge our local and state partners to join us in opposing California Assembly Bill 1407. We believe that low-income consumers deserve the right to be protected through regulatory process to ensure affordability of utilities programs (Lifeline programs) that help them meet their basic living needs. See below for information about AB 1407

As an educational consultant, at Important Steps Early Intervention agency, in one of the most underserved boroughs, the Bronx, I have had the immense pleasure of working with these families to effect change in the lives of their children born developmentally delayed. In the wake of devastating reforms to the NYS DOHMH and NYS DEPT of EDUCATION countless families are in danger of losing their Applied Behavioral Analysis/ Special Instruction/Occupational Therapy/Speech Language Pathology and Physical Therapy services. The consistent bureaucratic red tape to obtaining Medicaid Approvals, and NYCDEI addendums have made it difficult for agencies to survive in this economic climate. The reimbursement schedule has increased to a point where it can take longer than 90 days for agencies to get paid, and in turn pay clinicians for services already rendered, not including staff and business overhead. THIS MUST STOP!! Early intervention services provides the fundamental educational foundation that children born with developmental delays rely upon to have a chance of a different life. Not only do recent reforms negatively impact the lives of children, but also agencies like Important Steps, who must endure increasingly difficult financial and bureaucratic hurdles to obtain the necessary medicaid/city approvals to thrive. These critical services positively impact the lives of Bronx families on a daily basis! PLEASE HELP US TO REDUCE New York City and State APPROVAL TIMES AND REDUCE REIMBURSEMENT TIME FRAMES. WE NEED YOU TO PLAY AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WHO CANNOT FIGHT ALONE!!! CAN WE COUNT YOU IN? SIGN OUR PETITION TODAY!!

Thousands of homebound seniors will not get a hot meal tonight because Congress has cut funding for Meals on Wheels as part of the sequester. For millions of seniors, Social Security isn't enough to lift them out of poverty and hunger. In the past decade, there was a 78 percent increase in senior hunger.

All current and future retirees are concerned about our retirement safety net.

Unemployment is at 7.6% and many of those people are on Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC); let the Congress live on unemployment and see if they can live with a 22.2% cut in benefits. Why should people who are unemployed be punished because the Congress can’t get what they want from the President?

Hours are being drastically cut at the Burton Post Office. This is the first phase to closing the post office. The Burton Post Office is located on Vashon Island and provides service to hundreds of people, particularly on the south end of the island. The Burton post office is an important part of the community.

Nearly 50% of the people receiving food stamps are children. The 20 billion dollars in cuts proposed by the House would make 2 million households ineligible for this benefit. For children, no food stamps means no eligibility for a free school lunch, which certainly leads to an inability to learn and may mean no food at all for them that day. This is happening NOW, how can you even think of making it worse? The Senate is proposing 4 billion dollars in cuts, but even that is too much. Food stamp benefits need to be INCREASED! A hungry child is a child who can't learn, and a generation of people who cannot fulfill their potential is a generation of workers who cannot compete in the global marketplace.

Yes, someone I care about lives on less than 800 dollars a month. She can't afford to pay rent and utilities and buy "luxuries" like soap and toilet paper or able to afford to do laundry. Many of the poor aren't dirty because they want to be. It cost money to stay clean. She goes hungry at least 1 week out of the month. She can't afford to buy the healthy foods she needs for her diabetes and heart problems. It's a life of pain, terror, misery and feeling degraded for those in America who are truly too sick, disabled, and/or too elderly to be able to work no matter how much they wish they could.

Massive cuts over two years in Medicare to Nursing Homes

I will be affected by the attempt to balance the budget and "save social security" by implementing the chain CPI. The is a better way to balance the budget of the federal government and make social security viable for well into the future.

Many residents who depends on n21, n23, and n27 buses are forced to wait an hour when connecting buses at Greenvale or Roslyn Station don't wait for each others. This is very incovience since weekend service on n23 and n27 is every hour, while n20 trips to/from Hicksville has less service on Sundays.

The Senate voted to pull Medicaid expansion from the state budget, sacrificing billions in federal dollars and hundreds of jobs. This move was pure politics. The Senators who voted this way are willing to leave 58,000 Granite Staters uninsured just so they can say they did everything in their power to defeat "ObamaCare". They claim that accepting the federal funds is a "gamble" even though they know D.C. has always kept its Medicaid promises and even helped states more during tough economic times. The fight's not over yet! The next stop is the Committee of Conference between the Senate and House. Sign the petition below to let your State Senator know that New Hampshire will not miss out on an opportunity to do the right thing in order to help our friends and neighbors here in the Granite State.