Greetings from the Liberated Zone at UCLA ✊🏾🇵🇸❤️‍🔥

#FreePalestine

Last tax season, our volunteers helped Californians save $29.9 million in tax preparer fees!

Want to volunteer next season? Text Volunteer to 211-211 to get connected with a VITA site near you!

Yes! From California to the nation #LetsDoThis ! 👏🎉

#SchoolMealsForAll #EndChildHunger

Food Bank Council of Michigan Phil Knight 🐘🐘🐘🧻🌊 Anna Almanza schoolmealsforall California Association of Food Banks

A must-read thread for #CABudget policy wonks out there. The budget is a big deal with an impact on children’s & families’ lives.

Our coalition is closely following & advocating. #EndChildPoverty ⬇️

'Despite the critical role of the early learning and care system, access remains limited to only a fraction of children from eligible families,' says Erik Saucedo.

⚡ Policymakers should prioritize the well-being of families to secure a prosperous future for California. #caleg

When I was a child, my family of 8 shared a 3 bedroom house with 3 other families. We had enough money to rent just 1 room out of the 3. I will forever live with the pain of those years. It would’ve been worse had we not had our safety net programs that kept us housed and fed!

💙Y'all, this is going to be the best 2 min of your day!! Watch these Parent Voices SF kids wait patiently in line & then give their public comment about #ChildCare slots!💙

Thank you Senator Caroline Menjivar for welcoming our youngest leaders to #CABudget Senate Subcommittee 3!

'We are at a historic moment.' - Donna Sneeringer 🌻 of CCRC4Kids brings #ChildCare rate reform into context in #Sacramento today:
'We’re hoping we can work together to create a visionary system that really sets CA child care industry up for decades to come.' #CABudget

If we take away these #CalWORKs programs, we will further perpetuate a pipeline of families into homeless. #ReIMAGINECalWORKs #CALeg

This is exactly why it matters to elect people with lived experience! 💖🙌🏽
Thank you Senator Caroline Menjivar for speaking courageously against these cuts! #FairBudgetNow #CALeg End Child Poverty in California

👏Thank you Senator Caroline Menjivar for understanding the real-life implications of cuts in the #CABudget .

❤️Cuts to child welfare programs & #CalWORKs will have powerful impacts.

.Assemblymember Corey Jackson TY for a great hearing today! Here’s California Budget & Policy Center doc that shows $70 billion in tax breaks to richest corps/individuals. They don’t need it but #childcare providers & fams do! #childcare 4all #taxtherich calbudgetcenter.org/resources/cali…

It was #DenimDay & we ran into Asm Majority Leader Emerita Eloise Reyes! 💙
Liliana thanked her for helping give parents freedom from racist, sexist family fees. Before, Liliana paid $480/mo in fees for 'free' subsidized #ChildCare . No more! Now she can get her daughter Cassie tutoring. Such joy & relief! 💞

We are in the PEOPLE'S HOUSE today in #Sacramento !

📢What do we want?!
💙20,000 #ChildCare slots unpaused!
📢When do we want it?!
💙NOW!
📢What do we want?!
💙Child care providers paid thriving wages!
📢When do we want it?!
💙NOW!