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Alabama Arise praises new maternal health, paid parental leave laws
[caption id="attachment_10630" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Alabama Arise executive director Robyn Hyden (fifth from right) and worker policy advocate Dev Wakeley (sixth from right) participated in Gov. Kay Ivey’s bill signing ceremony for SB 199 on May 1, 2025, at the State Capitol in Montgomery. SB 199 will ensure paid parental leave for teachers, two-year college workers [...]
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Arise legislative update: Week of April 21, 2025
Arise's Whitney Washington breaks down why HB 477, a bill to allow junk health plans, is not a solution for Alabama's health coverage gap. HB 477 would authorize non-insurance health plans that aren't regulated by the Alabama Department of Insurance and that could cap benefits and discriminate against people with preexisting conditions. This bill is [...]
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Kit de herramientas de salud materna de Alabama
"Para mejorar la salud materna, debemos concentrarnos en mejorar la salud y el acceso a la atención de todas las mujeres; no solo durante el trabajo de parto y el nacimiento, sino también antes y después del embarazo, y durante toda nuestra vida". - Dra. Leana S. Wen Descargue aquí una copia completa en PDF [...]
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VIDEO: Alabama Arise Action Legislative Day 2025
Arise held its 2025 Legislative Day on Thursday, March 20. More than 200 supporters from across Alabama joined us in Montgomery to urge their lawmakers to continue to untax groceries and to support a plan to allow every public school in our state to provide no-cost school breakfast to all students. Our supporters also were [...]
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Maternal health, paid leave are early highlights in Alabama’s 2025 legislative session
Alabama Arise is advocating successfully to advance several good bills early in the Legislature’s 2025 regular session. Our members are speaking out and getting results on maternal health care access, paid parental leave and other issues. The session began Feb. 4 and likely will end in mid-May. Here is an overview of Arise’s advocacy at [...]
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Arise legislative update: Week of March 10, 2025
Arise’s Jennifer Harris provides an update on bills to expand access to maternal health care, postpartum care and paid parental leave in Alabama. She celebrates the progress on HB 89 and SB 102, which would remove barriers to Medicaid enrollment for expectant mothers, as well as SB 191 and HB 322, which would improve access [...]
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Federal Medicaid, SNAP threats imperil Alabamians
Lawmakers should not hurt people who are struggling to help people who are already doing well. But Congress is considering cuts to health coverage, food assistance and other human services that would do exactly that. These proposals would increase hunger and hardship for hundreds of thousands of Alabamians. The U.S. House last month approved a [...]
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Arise legislative update: Week of March 3, 2025
Arise's Debbie Smith highlights the wonderful turnout at Cover Alabama's advocacy day on Medicaid expansion in Montgomery last week. She also discusses why Arise joined with more than 100 partner groups to oppose federal cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and she explains how you can speak out against these harmful cuts as well. Finally, Debbie [...]
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110+ Alabama groups urge Congress to oppose cuts to Medicaid, SNAP
Congress should oppose efforts to cut funding or create additional enrollment barriers for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), 112 organizations across Alabama wrote in a letter to Alabama’s congressional delegation this week. “We write to request respectfully that, in your deliberations about federal budget and tax policy, you ensure that Congress protects [...]
Letters & Testimony
Alabama Arise, 111 partner groups urge Congress to oppose cuts to Medicaid, SNAP
Congressional leaders are considering cuts to health coverage, food assistance and other human services in a push to offset the cost of tax cuts for wealthy households. The amount of potential Medicaid and SNAP cuts in the House budget resolution would be roughly equal to the cost of extending tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% [...]