The Governor's proposal to fully eliminate programs within CalWORKs threatens to upend the progress made in supporting CalWORKs families. 

Vulnerable families, already grappling with systemic barriers, will bear the brunt of these cuts, says Monica Saucedo at Asm #CABudget hearing

We're so EXCITED for our friend & passionate advocate Jessica Bartholow (she/her)! An original member of the #EndChildPovertyCA Task Force, Jess gives meaning to the word 'tireless'!

Congratulations on your new position with SEIU California, Jess!

End Child Poverty in California SEIU California California Association of Food Banks Andrew Cheyne Senator Caroline Menjivar Yesenia Jimenez Alameda County Community Food Bank Christopher Sanchez Mesa Verde Group Western Center on Law & Poverty Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles Being part of a community of dream-big-believers, truth-tellers, sleeve-roller-up-ers, no-giving-up-ers like you all that makes me the proudest. Love you back! 🫶 can’t wait to introduce you to my new friends at SEIU California. They will be your new friends too! We wear purple.

It was an honor to welcome labor and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta in our board room today. In celebration of her 94th birthday, LACountyBOS has proclaimed Dolores Huerta Day on April 10 in LA County. Thank you for your lifetime of activism and for continuing to inspire…

❤️A new TANF pilots a generational opportunity to #ReimagineCalWORKs to be a healing, trauma-informed program that trusts women of color, moves away from sanctions that push families into deeper poverty & builds real pathways out of #poverty .
Read more ⬇️
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Please join us in congratulating Lesley Beltran Brizuela on her promotion as she is now the Senate District 8 Legislative Director.

We are lucky to have this hardworking, intelligent, dedicated woman in an important leadership role on our team.

Thank you CalMatters I hope this can be a game changing tool for advocates! 💖🙌🏽

Undocumented students from universities & colleges across CA are at the Capitol advocating for the passage of the #Opportunity4All Act, a bill that would remove barriers to job opportunities for undocumented students at all of CA’s public colleges & universities. David Alvarez

👏🎉“Hooray! #AB1961 (Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks) passed #CAAssembly Human Services with unanimous, bipartisan support!

It's time to develop a plan to end hunger for the 1 in 5 Californians struggling with food insecurity.

Breaking: The #Opportunity4All Act passed in the CA Assembly Higher Education Committee! This bill will provide equal access to job opportunities for all students, regardless of immigration status, at all of CA’s public colleges and universities.UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy UCLA Labor Center David Alvarez

'Working for Justice' was published in 2010 by Cornell University Press. I received a check today for 2023 royalties! People are still buying and reading the book! 😊

🚨Breaking news! The #Opportunity4All Act (AB 2586) passed the CA Assembly Higher Ed Committee today.

As AB 2586 recognizes, the University of California, The CSU & California Community Colleges have the legal authority to hire any of their students, regardless of immigration status. #O4All

News: Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is weighing his exit from the Biden administration — likely after the November election — to run for California governor in 2026.

w/ Dustin Gardiner Adam Cancryn

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I wrote a little piece for the ⁦Sacramento Bee today.

We don’t have to subsidize union busting, wage thieving big business with public dollars, we can do better. It’s time to put labor standards on tax credits and subsidies. sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/…

NEW: SSI/SSP Grants: Moving in the Right Direction, but Still Not Enough

The SSI/SSP program is a lifeline for millions of Californians, many still struggle to afford basic needs due to past cuts.

⚡ Read more from our policy expert Monica Saucedo.
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Members of the #CaLeg community received this email statement yesterday.

Really appreciated all of the excitement and well wishes received throughout the day. Let’s do this! SEIU California

And they can afford to doing without raising prices for consumers… they just chose not to.

Remember that. #FastFood Fight For 15 California Fast Food Workers Union SEIU California

Still fired up from Jose Cordon's (Antioch's Poet Laureate!) powerful spoken word at our #BabyBonds in Action event with End Child Poverty in California in February! His words captured what Baby Bonds can achieve .💯

Watch Jose in action in our #UpsetTheSetup blog!
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Guess you know what I will be doing Sunday! (Also, anyone know where I can get a poster of this?)

Today World Central Kitchen lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza. I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They…