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April 2, 2007 - State Issues Update

State groups campaign for clean elections
ICAN wins Election Day Registration
Lansing lawmakers approve bill to repeal immunity for drug makers
Affiliates work to lift state wages as Congress mulls federal increase
West Virginia Citizen Action Group sees green opportunities in legislature

March 1, 2007

USAction commits to ending the war in Iraq
Coalition report details the wrong priorities in Bush's FY2008 budget
House adopts CAN '100 Hours' plan; focus shifts to Senate for vital down-payments on America's future

February 1, 2007 - State Issues Update

Affiliates work to expand health care access
United Vision for Idaho applauds bipartisan plan to lift grocery-tax burden from low-income families
ICAN organizer, former OSA head honored with newspaper profiles
Oregon Action gets Portland PD to face racial profiling concerns
Michigan Citizen Action works to end drug-industry immunity
New Jersey Citizen Action files suit against discrimination by NJ Transit
Florida Consumer Action Network makes strong progress in campaign for consumer-friendly insurance

December 18, 2006

USAction GOTV effort involves 500,000 contacts with USAction affiliate members
- Six members of USAction affiliates will become new members of Congress in January
The Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities and the Change America Now campaign fight for America's priorities

October 6, 2006 - State Issues Update

Arizona wins voting-rights victory!
NJ Citizen Action blocks corporate merger; FL & MI stand up for consumers
NM PACE wins new school funding
CO Progressive Coalition, MO ProVote and OR Action demand a living wage
CO & FL chanpion the environment
USActioners lead the progressive charge

September 8, 2006

Preserving the estate tax and fighting to raise the minimum wage
Investing in America's future
Protecting Social Security
Strengthening workers' rights
Fixing the Part D disaster.

July 27, 2006 - State Issues Update

June 20, 2006

May 26, 2006 - State Issues Update

April 27, 2006

April 6, 2006 - State Issues Update

February 24, 2006

January 20, 2006 - State Issues Update

December 21, 2005

USAction state affiliates campaign for a budget that reflects America's priorities, a fair and independent judiciary, and protection for asbestos victims

October 28, 2005 - State Issues Update

Colorado Progressive Coalition and allies work to roll back the so-called Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR), which strangled the state's budget and seriously hurt health care, education and public safety programs
Washington Citizen Action campaigns to support the rights of victims of medical malpractice

October 14, 2005

USAction and affiliates celebrate a successful campaign to protect Social security from President Bush's privatization-and-benefit-cuts plan
USAction and partners form the Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities to oppose irresponsible budget cuts and reckless tax breaks

September 9, 2005

USAction Education Fund and state partners release reports detailing the effects of proposals to repeal or drastically reduce the federal estate tax
USAction and affiliates campaign for a fair Supreme Court

August 4, 2005

Citizen Action/Illinois fills civic center over capacity for town hall event on Social Security with Rep. Tim Johnson; affiliates nationwide continue to pressure members of Congress to take a stand against privatization
Affilitates prepare to celebrate 70th anniversary of Social Security on August 14
USAction activists send letters to the editor to oppose repealing or drastically reducing the estate tax
Affiliates celebrate Medicaid's 40th anniversary

June 10, 2005

USAction and affiliates continue "Take A Stand" campaign to urge members of Congress to oppose Social Security privatization and benefit cuts
USAction, coalition oppose asbestos trust fund legislation

May 19, 2005

USAction and affiliates urge members of Congress to "take a stand" against President Bush's Social Security privatization plan
Affiliates campaign for health care and consumer rights

April 28, 2005

April 26 Rally to Protect Social Security and Stop Privatization was a huge success!
USAction affiliates in more than 30 cities hold similar rallies opposing President Bush's Social Security privatization plan

April 22, 2005

New Jersey Citizen Action organizes an anti-privatization demonstration as Vice President Cheney tries to sell the plan at Burlington County College.
Affiliates campaign to protect Medicaid, push for a fair federal budget, and testify in favor of clean elections.

April 15, 2005

Anti-privatization resolutions in 25 states get help from affiliates and Americans United to Protect Social Security. Citizen Action/Illinois, Ocean State Action and others organize events to protect Social Security.
Affiliates in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Missouri campaign against Medicaid cuts.
USAction rallies for a fair and independent judiciary.

March 31, 2005

USAction affiliates partnered with the state federations of labor (AFL-CIO) to orchestrate a powerful "Day of Action" to call on Charles Schwab and Wachovia Bank to stop supporting President Bush's Social Security privatization scheme, and pull out of the pro-privatization business lobby group Alliance for Worker Retirement Security. The events took place in over 70 locations across the country. USAction groups participated in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

March 25, 2005

Saving Medicaid and the Federal Budget—Celebrating and building on last week's success in the Senate to protect Medicaid from federal budget cuts.
Americans United to Protect Social Security—USAction affiliates confront President Bush as he travels the country to sell his Social Security privatization scheme.

March 18, 2005

USAction affiliates contributed to a very important victory for the 51 million Americans that rely on Medicaid for health insurance and long term care. Through call-ins, press events, townhall meetings, and other activities, USAction affiliates helped persuade 52 senators, including seven Republicans, to vote for the Smith-Bingaman amendment that removed all cuts to Medicaid from the Senate's Budget Resolution.
Twenty-three USAction state affiliates banded together to join Americans United to Protect Social Security, a national campaign to oppose President Bush's Social Security privatization plan

February 25, 2005

USAction affiliates organize events to defend Social Security and Medicaid, work for a federal budget that reflects the right priorities, and oppose legislation that strips consumers of vital Class Action protections.

February 18, 2005

USAction and our national partners are rapidly responding to the Bush Administration's push to privatize Social Security. USAction Affiliates in North Dakota, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire organized press conference and rallies where they released a new report by the Institute for America's Future. The report showed that young citizens in each state would lose $152,000 in Social Security benefits, under the Bush plan. Read about the events here.

Fall 2004 (Issue 6)

USAction Ed Fund, Partners Register Close to Half a Million New Voters
Florida Residents Rally Against HSAs
Fighting for Affordable Rx Prices
Obama Speaks to Citizen Action/Illinois
A Million More: USAEF Gets Out The Vote
Focus on Florida: Building Democracy, Mobilizing Voters
USAction Honors Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard

August/September 2004 (Issue 5)

July 2004 (Issue 4)

USAction, Partners Register Over 250,000
Scales of Justice Tilt Toward Consumers
New Report Says Two in Five Children, One in Three Americans Lacked Health Insurance Last Year
Staff Profile: Detroit's Byron Frazier

July 2004 (Issue 3)

June 2004 (Issue 2)