Our Family Friendly Legislation desk wants us to support to this bill. This is a bill we have been working on since last year. They need our need help now! Here are two things to do. Most importantly call Dan Innis, we were at meeting that we swore that this […]
Hi, Here are two things we can do to support families in New Hampshire. Please call Dan Innis 603-271-3077 and ask him to vote yes. Here are the facts, remember personalizing it makes the request stronger. New Hampshire needs a strong workforce to keep our economy growing. Caregiving duties are one […]
We need to show Sen. Innis how much public support there is family and medical leave as implemented in HB 628. The Finance Committee (Sen. Innis is not a member) will hold a hearing on the bill on April 5 and then the bill could be voted on by the […]
This bill provides an insurance pool for paid family and medical leave for NH families. NH Women’s Foundation emailed and asked for our help. We made calls about this bill last year. It was retained in committee. The good news is the bill has been revived. Here’s what you can […]
SPEAKER Heather Boushey is the executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting-edge analysis into whether and how structural changes in the U.S. economy, particularly related to economic inequality, affect economic growth. She is the author of Finding Time: […]
The Huddle has been making calls about legislation since February 10th. We invited 3 speakers to talk about how legislation is affecting their organizations. Christine opened our meeting by reading a few passages from, On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. A good read for us […]
Senate Bill # 7 What it does: It changes financial eligibility for Food stamps, making it harder to receive them. It is modeled on a national effort by conservatives to cut back on assistance. Support/Oppose: Oppose Why? Food stamps are a federal program (no state $ needed) and vitally important to the low […]
A full-time minimum wage worker in New Hampshire makes only $7.25 per hour—or roughly $14,500 per year—and it is hurting Granite State families. Seven in 10 minimum wage workers in New Hampshire are women. Nearly 60,000 family households in New Hampshire are headed by women, but about 24% of those […]
Senate Bill # 7 What it does: It changes financial eligibility for Food stamps, making it harder to receive them. It is modeled on a national effort by conservatives to cut back on assistance. Support/Oppose: Oppose Why? Food stamps are a federal program (no state $ needed) and vitally important to the low […]
RETIREMENT FUNDING A bill from Hampton Rep. Renny Cushing FYI: For decades, New Hampshire paid 35% of the retirement costs to towns for teachers, police, officers and firefighters. In 2011, the Bill O’Brien legislature cut that 35% to 0%, downshifting the costs onto local committees. When Republican legislators claim they […]