| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alabama Daily News: ‘The crisis is getting worse’: Labor Shortage Commission seeks solutions to workforce struggles Alabama's House Labor Shortage Commission held its first meeting last month to discuss the state's workforce. “Most fundamentally, (the low labor participation rate) is due to compensation factors that haven’t kept up with the needs and costs of everyday living,” Arise's Dev Wakeley told Alabama Daily News. “That manifests into child care needs, it manifests into transportation, housing costs, all of it, and there are ways that we can, in fact, address this, both at the compensation level and public good infrastructure level.”  Further reading: Anniston Star Decatur Daily Florence TimesDaily |
| Alabama Reflector: Further reductions in Alabama grocery tax might face political headwinds “If you look at budget and tax priorities, there is a big focus on fairness,” Arise's Robyn Hyden told the Alabama Reflector. “'Hey, we know that we have a lot of goals of things that we would like to see funded in our state. We would like to have an equitable education system. We would like to fund Medicaid expansion. But we don’t think it is worth taxing poor people for their groceries to fund basic state services.’" |
| Rx Foundation: The road to affordable health care: Advocacy in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee “Every Alabamian should be able to get the medical care they need to survive and thrive,” Cover Alabama campaign director Debbie Smith told our partners at the Rx Foundation. “Removing financial barriers to health care would make our workforce more robust and more productive. It’s time for Alabama policymakers to close the health coverage gap and invest in a healthier future for our state and for our people.” |
| Alabama Daily News: Medicaid enrollment declines by more than 22,300 in July “We are leaving millions of federal funds on the table, and we have hard-working Alabamians – cooks, construction workers, barbers, child care workers – who cannot afford coverage, and some of them may be losing coverage this year because of the end of the federal public health emergency," Arise's Robyn Hyden told Alabama Daily News about Alabama's coverage gap. Further reading: AL.com Anniston Star Florence TimesDaily |
| CNHI News: Data lags as thousands of Alabamians begin losing Medicaid coverage “Alabama took an important step to help families stay healthy by extending Medicaid postpartum coverage last year,” Arise's Robyn Hyden said. “However, that step alone was not enough to meet our state’s numerous health care needs. Policymakers should pursue numerous solutions to make Alabama a better place for parents and babies. At the top of that list should be expanding Medicaid to ensure Alabamians of all ages can stay healthy before, during and after conception." Further reading: Cullman Times |
| Valley Labor Report: Explaining the urgency of Medicaid expansion "In Alabama, it's nearly impossible to receive Medicaid coverage as an able-bodied adult without expansion," Arise's Whit Sides said on the Valley Labor Report.  |
| WSFA 12, Montgomery: Overcoming Poverty: Alabama lawmakers slow to fix payday lending problems Arise's Robyn Hyden talked to WSFA 12 in Montgomery about the impact payday loans can have and some potential policy solutions on the issue. “We call it a debt trap. We’ve called it toxic lending. We’ve called it predatory." Further reading: Fox 10, Mobile Fox 10, Mobile WSFA 12, Montgomery |
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