Ocean State Action celebrates
2nd Annual Health Care Policy Heroes!
Please Join Us to Honor
State Representative Ray Sullivan,
SEIU 1199,
and Nancy St. Germain
Guest Speakers to include:
Margarida Jorge, National Field Director for Health Care for America Now (HCAN), formerly of SEIU, AFSCME,
and Missouri ProVote
Jeff Blum, Executive Director of USAction
Monday, June 21st, 2010, 6PM - 8PM
Local 121, Providence
Get your tickets here.
Tell Congress: Protect Consumers and Hold the Big Wall Street Banks Accountable!
Call Senator Jack Reed Toll Free TODAY at 1-866-544-7573.
Tell Senator Reed to support financial reform that holds big Wall Street Banks accountable.
Historic health reform has passed! The bill is a victory for the American people:
- Insurance companies can no longer deny care for pre-existing conditions, charge you more if you’re sick, cap your benefits, sell you junk insurance, or raise rates with impunity.
- For the first time, Members of Congress will get their health insurance from the same system regular Americans do.
- Small business and working families will security and stability knowing they can afford good health insurance that meets their needs.
- 32 million uninsured Americans will get affordable coverage, saving over 30,000 lives per year.
Read an op-ed from a Rhode Island emergency physician explaining why we need reform.
Now write your own!
- Health Care Policy Heroes
- Flat Tax Repeal
- Finance Reform
- Health Care Reform
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Op-Ed in the ProJo: Build economic security for all |
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Written by Karen Malcolm, Op-Ed in the Providence Journal
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Monday, March 16 2009 13:47 |
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This is no ordinary economic downturn. What makes it worse is a level of inequality that we haven't seen since the last Great Depression 80 years ago. Here in Rhode Island, income inequality has grown for some time, making the current crisis even more dire for many.
Between 1990 and 2006, Rhode Island had the country’s fifth-highest increase in wage inequality. Between 2000 and 2006, we were the only state in New England where the median family wage declined while income for those earning above $200,000 soared far in excess of the national average.
Rhode Island’s inequality gap is perpetuated by policy choices made on Smith Hill.
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Visit the Rhode Island Policy Reporter at What Cheer! for up-to-date policy analysis and reports.
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