The 2022 Legislative Session starts TODAY 🏁

Last session your calls, e-mails, testimony, and virtual support led to some big legislative wins to support working families across the state. This year is a shorter session – only 60 days! – that will run until mid-March. Join us to keep building momentum for more big wins this year!

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Last day to register for MLK Lobby Day is Wednesday, January 12! 

 

Our annual MLK Lobby Day is next Monday January 17, register now for the link to join online.

This session is already off to a promising start with some big investments proposed by Governor Inslee! 

 

This session, the legislature will vote on a budget for state spending for the remainder of the 2021-2023 biennium. Governor Inslee released his supplemental budget proposal in December with some big investments:

• Over $800 million for homelessness response and housing stability 👀
• More than $248 million toward poverty reduction 🎉
• Extending access to cash assistance for children whose parents or caregivers don’t meet TANF qualifications
• Community outreach to boost access to the Working Families Tax Credit available starting 2023

Read our analysis of the Governor’s supplemental budget proposal here.

 

Join us this session in calling on our state lawmakers to build on these investments and support low-income residents of color in Washington by:

• Permanently increasing racial equity in access to the TANF cash grant through broad hardship extensions
• Reducing funding for prisons and policing to invest in basic needs and economic security

 

More on the Governor’s budget from our friends at the Budget & Policy Center!

 

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