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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 [...]
News Releases
New paid parental leave law improves life for Alabama workers
Gov. Kay Ivey signed SB 199 into law Wednesday. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Vivian Figures, D-Mobile, will ensure paid parental leave for new parents who work as teachers, two-year college employees or state employees. The law, which will take effect on July 1, provides eight weeks of paid leave to mothers and two weeks [...]
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Arise legislative update: Week of March 31, 2025
With a little less than half of the Alabama Legislature's 2025 regular session remaining, Arise's David Stout breaks down what to expect in the weeks ahead. The General Fund and Education Trust Fund budgets both will begin moving soon. Arise is working to ensure the education budget includes funding to allow every public school to [...]
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Federal workers are vital to Alabama’s economy
Federal workers help keep our food, workplaces and environment safe. Thousands carry out critical missions like weather forecasting, disaster relief and medical care. Federal employees and their families are our neighbors who live, work and send their children to schools across Alabama. But waves of firings in recent weeks have targeted federal employees who serve [...]
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Arise legislative update: Week of March 24, 2025
Arise's Dev Wakeley provides updates from the first half of the Alabama Legislature's 2025 regular session as lawmakers are on spring break this week. In good news, lawmakers passed a paid parental leave bill on Thursday! SB 199 will introduce paid leave for new parents who work as teachers or state employees. The bill now [...]
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200+ Alabama Arise supporters rally in favor of reducing state grocery tax
[caption id="attachment_10337" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Alabama Arise executive director Robyn Hyden speaks in support of untaxing groceries during Arise's annual Legislative Day on March 20, 2025, in Montgomery. (Photo by Julie Bennett)[/caption] Alabama should reduce the state sales tax on groceries again this year and work toward a sustainable solution to end the tax permanently, Alabama [...]
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Vote ‘Yes’ on HB 386: Help Alabama families by reducing the state grocery tax
[caption id="attachment_7943" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Alabama Arise supporters gather outside the State House in Montgomery during Arise's Legislative Day on April 11, 2023. More than 100 Alabamians came to urge their legislators to end the state sales tax on groceries. Lawmakers reduced the state grocery tax from 4% to 3% in 2023 and now are considering [...]
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Arise legislative update: Week of March 17, 2025
Arise's LaTrell Clifford Wood provides an exciting update about our progress on untaxing groceries in Alabama. LaTrell highlights HB 386 by Rep. Danny Garrett, which would reduce Alabama's state sales tax on groceries from 3% to 2%, saving families an estimated $122 million annually. Thanks to the efforts of Garrett and the Joint Study Commission [...]
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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 [...]