PORTLAND, ME – On Wednesday, members of the Maine People’s Alliance and Mainers for Accountable Leadership will deliver health care messages stuffed inside empty pill bottles to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) urging her to reject any plan that repeals the Affordable Care Act and cuts Medicaid. The delivery comes as Senate Republicans are reportedly beginning […]
People’s Action Statement on President Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
As President Trump continued today to promote an infrastructure plan that would sell off public assets to his golfing buddies and other private investors, People’s Action released statements condemning the plan, arguing that it won’t provide the kind of public investments and jobs that we need. People’s Action is part of the Millions of Jobs […]
Activists Will Make Sure Senators Home for Recess Understand the Devastation of Trumpcare
The Congressional Budget Office score of the latest version of the Trump-Republican health care repeal plan reconfirms the devastating consequences this callous legislation will have on the elderly, families and children. Trumpcare will leave 23 million people without health coverage within a decade. Health insurance will be prohibitively expensive for people who are ill or […]
March to Springfield – Illinois Activists are Frontline of Trump Budget Resistance
Bloomington-Normal, IL – If you want a preview of America under the Trump tax and budget proposals look no further than Illinois. Like Trump’s tax plan, Illinois lets corporations and the rich off the hook. Far from generating the economic growth the Trump budget predicts, Illinois’ regressive tax structure has left the state broke, resulting […]
“Mother of Superfund” Raises Warning on Trump’s Environmental Budget Cuts
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s cruel and backward budget sets progress on protecting our environment back 50 years and endangers the health of people and the planet. The president’s proposed budget cuts $330 million from the Hazardous Substance Superfund – the program that cleans up our most toxic sites – and jeopardizes cleanup efforts. “Without […]
Federal Budget: Trump’s Vision Vs. Our Vision
WASHINGTON – With the release of the 2018 federal budget proposal, the Trump administration has made public and has made plain, its priorities for our nation. The Trump vision for America is one that sacrifices children, families, the sick and the disabled in exchange for tax breaks for the very rich, and giveaways to trillion-dollar […]
Politicians Will Face an Enraged Firestorm Back Home for Health Care Vote
People’s Action denounces the House of Representatives’ vote to throw 24 million people off their health care. By passing this health care repeal, the Republican-led House shows it stands on the side of corporations and the rich and against the people whose lives depend on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, which this bill dismantles […]
LeeAnn Hall: $15 Minimum Wage Can’t Happen Soon Enough
LeeAnn Hall, co-director of People’s Action Institute, provided this statement today on the $15 minimum wage proposal: Organizations that make up People’s Action Institute have been fighting for a $15 minimum wage on the city and state level for years, helping lead the fight in Seattle – the first city to adopt $15 – and […]
Activists Pledge to Keep the Health Care Fight Alive Back Home
WASHINGTON – More than eight hundred grassroots community leaders gathered at the People’s Action “Hometown Rising Town Hall” on Tuesday to launch the next stage in the fight to stop Republicans from repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), gutting Medicaid and the Indian Health Service, and trading away health care for tax giveaways to corporations […]
From Protest to Power: People’s Action Pivots to Recruiting, Electing and Governing
WASHINGTON – After helping build a national resistance movement against the Trump administration, People’s Action is taking the next step, harnessing the energy to move from protest to election victories – capturing governing power in the states and nationally. More than a thousand activists will gather in Washington D.C. April 23-25 for “Rise Up: From […]
