Advocacy Agenda

2008 Advocacy Agenda Summary
 
Economic Justice & Poverty
Affordable Housing & Homelessness
-Ongoing funding for the state Housing Trust Fund
-Increasing funding for programs assisting homeless people
-Increasing funding for weatherization and emergency repair of low income homes
-Funding for supportive housing

Family-Sustaining Income
-Funding for the TANF program to help TANF families move to family-sustaining employment
-Funding for the state Family Opportunity Accounts program
-Restoring child care eligibility to 200% of the federal poverty level and providing more funding to increase the quality of child care assistance
-Funding to increase foster care rates and for transitional services for children aging out of foster care
-Increasing funding for the LIHEAP program
-Increasing funding for more Income Support Division workers

Health Care
-Providing affordable and accessible health care for all New Mexicans
-Maintaining and expanding Medicaid coverage & benefits for low-income children and adults
-Increasing funding for primary care clinics

Hunger
-Increasing supplemental state funding for seniors receiving the minimal Food Stamp benefit
-Increasing funding for nutrition assistance programs, including the Food Banks’ produce transportation and Food for Kids programs as well as the Farmers’ Market --Nutrition Enhancement program
-Increasing funding for the Elementary School Breakfast program

Tax Policy
-Working for tax policy that is fair and provides stable, adequate revenue to meet the needs of the most vulnerable
-Enacting combined reporting legislation

Human & Civil Rights
Death Penalty
-Repealing capital punishment  
  
Civil Rights
-Supporting basic legal rights in domestic partnerships

Human Rights
-Enacting human trafficking provisions that include victims' protections and services