Action Alert!!!!!!!!!!!

Upcoming Hearings For the WRC Bills In the House and in the Senate!!!!!

Welfare Rights Committee is continuing to fight for poor and working Minnesotans at the capitol. As it stands now, we need your immediate help to tell the politicians the time is now to ACT! Unfortunately, the poor of Minnesota are at risk of being sold out yet again by politicians.

Come to the hearings and Support the Poor People's Bills!!!!!!!!

HF912 will be heard in the Tax Committee chaired by Rep. Lenczewski on Tuesday on April 10, at 12:30 PM in room 10 at the State Office Building. HF 912 closes corporate tax loopholes and uses that money to Undo the cuts of 2003. These include the $125 MFIP cut to disabled families, the $50 MFIP cut to families in subsidized housing, the family cap, restrictions on education and the increased co-pays for poor families' childcare and basic medical.

S.F. 0514 that will Outlaw workfare will be heard in the Business, Industry and Jobs Committee Chaired by Senator Metzen on April 11, at 12:30 PM in Room 123 in the Capitol. Workfare forces MFIP parents to work for nopay in order to get the grant. We say, if there is a job to be done, make it a real job with real wages and benefits! If workfare is allowed to happen, it will serve to hurt all working people, as real jobs are replaced by free-labor jobs.