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: Moving Rhode Island Forward by Fixing Our Upside-Down Tax System |
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Written by by Peter Asen, published in the Providence American
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Thursday, February 04 2010 14:15 |
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In fact, if we had repealed the flat tax last year, Rhode Island could have avoided cutting tens of millions in aid to our cities and towns that reduced local services and forced property taxes and rents to go up.
Our schools in Providence and other cities are now facing a potential three percent cut, which will mean teacher layoffs and other changes, after already having lost all professional development this year. The streets of Providence are full of potholes, but the state is withholding money from the city that could have helped to fix them. And so many people are out of work, and public investments could get them back to work. Isnt there a better way?
Please visit www.OceanStateAction.org to learn more about our work to fix our upside-down tax system. To get involved, call 463-5368 or email
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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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