 The Federal Budget
Citizen Action of New York works in NYS with The Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities. ECAP is a nationwide campaign of national and grassroots organizations committed to reversing the Administration’s policy of drastic cuts to programs that primarily benefit the poor and middle class in order to finance tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and special interests. Our “First Things First” agenda is a plan to fully meet pressing human needs over five years and assure that all pay their fair share.
The 110th Congress can expand opportunity and prosperity for the vast majority of Americans, ensuring long-term economic growth by investing in critical human needs priorities. The ECAP agenda for 2007 is a down payment on reversing the upside-down budget and tax priorities of the Bush Administration and the 109th Congress.
The “First Things First” agenda is based on our shared values that each of us deserves the opportunity to succeed, to have access to adequate health care, food, housing, education and the economic security to live with dignity. And yet, unmet needs are growing – 250,000 child care slots have been lost since 2000, 17 states are facing shortfalls in 2007 in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), 130,000 housing rental vouchers have been lost since 2004, and Food Stamp benefits average only $1 per individual for a meal.
May 14, 2008: In a time when New Yorkers are facing hard economic times - increases in prices for food, gas, health care and other necessities, and many are experiencing unemployment, home foreclosures, and utility shut-offs - Citizen Action is working with USAction to fight for basic change in the priorities of the Bush administration and his friends in Congress through the Invest in America’s Future Campaign. The campaign calls for the U.S. government to invest in our own people rather than spending billions on this seemingly endless Iraq War that’s killing so many of our young people and destroying Iraq. This month, we called on key New York members of Congress to vote against funding the Iraq War. Citizen Action was also the lead signer of an organizational letter asking New York members of Congress to fight for a new economic stimulus package that will really job-start the economy by putting more money in the hands of low and moderate income people. Click here to see the letter.
March 2008: The President's Budget: More for Tax Cuts and War; Failure to Invest in New York's Future. Click here to read the report.
11/12/2007: An Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities/Citizen Action report documents that veterans and their families will be seriously harmed if Congress isn’t able to override an expected Presidential veto of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education budget bill. Click here to read the full report.
10/31/2007: A report by the Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities (ECAP) documents the importance of the Congressional budget fight on vital human needs in New York, and discusses the cost of the Iraq War to New Yorkers. Click to read the full report now!
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