NC Justice Center's Living Income Initiative E-mail Update

March 25, 2003

Volume 3, Issue 3

The Living Income Initiative is a special project of the NC Justice and Community Development Center. It is
supported completely through contributions and foundation support. You can contribute directly by mail at
Living Income Initiative, P.O. Box 28068, Raleigh, NC 27611. Email us at sorien@ncjustice.org


ALERT!

LIVING INCOME EMAIL UPDATE


CALL SENATORS DOLE & EDWARDS NOW

US HOUSE BUDGET WOULD CUT $4.7 BILLION TO NORTH CAROLINIANS IN NEXT TEN YEARS

Think North Carolina has budget problems now? Think our laid-off workers are struggling now? Congress wants to make things much worse. On March 21, the US House passed a budget that would cut $265 billion from entitlement programs between 2004 and 2013. Of the $265 billion in entitlement cuts called for by the plan, about $225 billion would come in programs that assist either (a) mostly middle-class, low-income, elderly, and disabled people with the costs of health care, food, other necessities, and post-secondary education; (b) veterans; or (c) farmers.

NORTH CAROLINIANS WOULD LOSE $4.7 BILLION BETWEEN 2004-2013 IN MEDICAID, SCHIP, SSI, EITC, FOOD STAMPS, TANF, CHILD NUTRITION, FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION, CHILD CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT ASSISTANCE. See below for details.


CALL SENATOR DOLE AND SENATOR EDWARDS NOW!

The US House and Senate will be negotiating a final budget as soon as this THURSDAY. Senators need to hear from you NOW that these cuts must not be included in the final version of the budget.

CALL SENATOR ELIZABETH DOLE NOW AT 202-224-6342

Message for Senator Dole:
(1) Please tell Senate Majority Leader Frist and Budget Committee Chairman Nickles that you will not vote for a budget that includes the cuts in low-income entitlement programs now in the House version.
(2) Low-income families in North Carolina cannot afford the $4.7 Billion in cuts included in the House budget, particularly at a time when the economy is so weak and families are struggling to make ends meet. These cuts are to essential programs from which North Carolinians need more help not less such as: Medicaid, SCHIP, food stamps, the EITC, child care and more.
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Our unemployment rate remains above national levels and manufacturing jobs are permanently leaving the state. We must help our unemployed workers and families get back on their feet. We need more services not fewer.

CALL SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS NOW AT 202-224-3154

Message for Senator Edwards:
(1) Please do not vote for a budget that includes the cuts to low-income programs now in the House version.
(2) Low-income families in North Carolina cannot afford the $4.7 Billion in cuts included in the House budget, particularly at a time when the economy is so weak and families are struggling to make ends meet. These cuts are to essential programs from which North Carolinians need more help not less such as: Medicaid, SCHIP, food stamps, the EITC, child care and more.
(3) Our unemployment rate remains above national levels and manufacturing jobs are permanently leaving the state. We must help our unemployed workers and families get back on their feet. We need more services not fewer.

For more information see Center on Budget and Policy Priorities updates:

http://www.cbpp.org/3-20-03bud2-fact.htm, for an overview of the House cuts.
http://www.cbpp.org/3-20-03bud3.htm, for detailed state-by-state estimates of these cuts.

 

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CONTACTS & LINKS

Living Income Email Update and Advocacy
Sorien K. Schmidt 919-856-2151 sorien@ncjustice.org		 Living Income Research and Grassroots Campaigns
 Elizabeth Jordan 919-856-3185
 Living Income Grassroots Education and Organizing
Sheila Kingsberry Burt 919-856-3194
Elaine Mejia
NCJCDC Budget & Tax Center		 How to Take Action The Living Income Agenda (PDF)
Subscribe to the Living Income Email Update Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Fact Sheet Living Income Fact Sheet
Working for a Good Living Workshop brochure (PDF) Learn more about public assistance in North Carolina. North Carolina EITC Tax claims by county and as a percent of income tax filers for 1998.