Federal Budget

KC Youth Lobby in DC

Youth from the Whatsoever Community Center, KCMO made lobby visits to the offices of Congressman Cleaver and Blunt as part of the national screening and advocacy actions at the "If I Had a Trillion Dollars" Youth Film Festival. (To view a gallery of photos from the event, click here.)

Youth represent Kansas City at the “If I Had a Trillion Dollars” National Film Festival in Washington, D.C. 

KCMO Tax Day Collage

AFSC with the support of area organizations marked Tax Day creating a "crime scene" representing the victims of misdirected budget and revenue policies.

A Tax Day “The U.S.

KCMO Council Passes Move the Money

KCMO City Council Unanimously Passes Move the Money Resolution at April 11 session.

In response to the misdirected federal budget debate and actions in Washington, D.C. and the disastrous impact it is having on our community and economy, the Kansas City AFSC has organized a Move the Money resolution campaign.

Tax Day Cleveland

On "Tax Day," Monday, April 15, more than 50 people representing a countywide coalition of justice and peace groups demonstrated in downtown Cleveland for just and peaceful federal budget and tax policies.
 
Demonstrators displayed signs and banners calling on federal officials to "Stop the Cuts! Protect Social Security! Grow 'Family-Wage' Jobs! Tax the One Percent! and End U.S. Wars and Occupations!"
 

Letter to the Editor / Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Greg Coleridge
April 15, 2013
http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2013/04/taking_stock_of_our_taxation_a.html

IHTD Youth in Washington DC

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Youth group from Miami prep to visit their congress person during IHTD's Lobby Day
Photo: Carl Roose

In her monthly newsletter, General Secretary Shan Cretin considers the culture of militarism in the U.S. and what all of us can do today to pave the way for a truly secure future.

KCMO Council Passes Move the Money

KCMO City Council Unanimously Passes Move the Money Resolution at April 11 session.

The Federal Budget Crisis Is Not A Deficit Crisis.

It's A Crisis Of Priorities.

Choosing to continue enormous tax breaks for the millionaires and spending 60 percent of public discretionary dollars on the Pentagon makes no sense, as millions struggle to find work and to feed and house their families.

Pull the Pork from the Pentagon

The air waves are full of babble about the impeding sequester, a forced across the board line item cut of the federal budget.  Congress continues to play a crazy game of brinksmanship that could have devastating consequesences to people (cuts to subidized housing, education, head start, food safety inspection and much more) as well as to state budgets that would be left scrambling to plug the holes in education funding, housing, HIV testing and all the other programs essential to state residents.  It also would make cuts to military spending, again across the board.  There is