.Buffy Wicks #AB1961 to create a plan to #EndHunger is out of #CaLeg #Senate #Appropriations!🌟🎉 Thanks to Chair Anna Caballero: #hunger & #FoodAccess are often most challenging in #rural areas that also are major food producers 🙌 to partners WesternStatesCouncil CA Food & Farming Network California Association of Food Banks

#SB1090 (Senator María Elena Durazo): Early Application for Paid Family Leave and Disability Insurance Benefits ➡ Assembly Floor. Contact your legislators to support #SB1090 workfamilyca.org/apply-early

Moving to the Senate Floor 🛫 #AB2499 (Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo): Strengthening Safe Leave #AB2901 (Cecilia Aguiar-Curry): Pregnancy Leave for Educators! So excited California Teachers Association Seth Bramble!

Great news! FCLCA supports #SB1090, #AB2499 and #AB2901!

Great news!

After 10 years of failed bag policy that led to ~50% increase in plastic film waste in CA, the #caleg can make it right by voting YES on #SB1053 and #AB2236! Let’s get plastic out of grocery checkout. Oceana CALPIRG Environment California Ocean Conservancy Monterey Bay Aquarium CIGA International Paper

FCLCA supports #SB227!

Now #SB1061 has passed off the Senate Floor on concurrence - and is heading to California Governor's desk! Thank you to the author Senator Monique Limón and partners CALPIRG, California Nurses, Consumer Federation of California, NCLC, California Low-Income Consumer Coalition, and Rob Bonta for all the hard work on this bill

Public comment is starting now, & the line is out the door w/ locals who showed up on their own time to tell the #OHCA Board their personal struggles to afford the health care they need. Learn more about how YOU can get involved to #MakeCACareAffordable: health-access.org/campaigns/make…

Major kudos to the brave students USN 💖🙌🏽✨

.California Governor Gavin Newsom: you have led the nation fighting #hunger. Now is the time to build on that record & plan to #EndHunger! 🔥 Buffy Wicks #AB1961 is the only path for a whole-of-government approach across CA's vital food & farming system 🌟 UFCW 8-Golden State CA Food & Farming Network California Association of Food Banks

The new school year has just begun, and yet again, our hearts are broken by another devastating school shooting. As we grieve for everyone in Georgia impacted by this tragedy, we must again call for action. It is unacceptable that students across our country have to face the

NEW: California's Poverty Rate Soared to Alarmingly High Levels in 2023 Poverty is a policy choice. The pandemic proved that federal and state leaders have the tools to significantly reduce poverty. Policymakers can do it again. ⚡ We share more: calbudgetcenter.org/resources/cali…

Today in the The Sacramento Bee morning roundup: California Budget & Policy Center's report on California poverty going up in 2023. #Congress must bring back the highly successful Expanded #ChildTaxCredit.

Did you know that 7 in 10 single mothers in CA don't make enough income to afford basic needs? 🙍‍♀️ Tools like CalEITC & the Young Child Tax Credit make CA more prosperous & equitable for ALL by helping families who need it most afford necessities like groceries, gas, or rent!

CA’s current plastic bag ban is not working. Allowing thicker plastic bags to be given out at grocery stores has only resulted in more waste. California Governor sign #SB1053 to finally #BantheBag and end this senseless waste. pirg.org/california/tak…

✅ @CAGovernor NOW is the time to SIGN #AB2263 & support a plan for statewide guaranteed income! ❤️#AB2263 (Laura Friedman) builds on historic #GuaranteedIncome pilots to chart a path to statewide policy.

Until #childcare policy is improved, "we will continue to lose billions of dollars in the national #economy and fail to improve economic and #jobsecurity for #families" 📢🚨👏 clasp.org/blog/the-need-…

The pandemic showed that policies like the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) can significantly reduce poverty. When Congress let them expire, the national poverty rate had its biggest jump in 50 years. ⚡ We share more: calbudgetcenter.org/resources/cali…

FCLCA supports SB 1090!