Nebraska Appleseed is pleased to welcome Kelly Bach, the inaugural Neec Bowyer Good Trouble Fellow. Kelly will be working full-time with our Health Care Access Team this summer. Originally from the Twin Cities area, Kelly is a recent graduate of Creighton University in Omaha. She is preparing for law school and was looking for an […]
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You’re invited to join Nebraska Appleseed on Wednesday, July 8 for coffee on us! Stop by anytime between 11:00 am to 12:30 pm for a beverage at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso for a community conversation about access to dental care in Nebraska. We know many community members in Nebraska face challenges accessing the dental health
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See you at Session 2 : Belonging Barometer – Tools for Building Community Wednesday, July 1st, 10:30am-12:00pm CT (9:30-11:00am MT) on Zoom Come learn together as we dig deep into the belonging barometer for Session 2 of the 12th-annual statewide welcoming convening (virtual) summer series! We just wrapped up our first session with community leaders
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Let’s honor contributions made by DACA community members by calling on Congress for permanent solutions! I wanted to invite you to join us via Zoom on Monday, June 15 to commemorate the 14th Anniversary of DACA by contacting Congress and urging them to provide a permanent solution for longtime community members! Join us for a
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Two hundred. That’s the approximate number of landlords one Lincolnite had to call to find one place to rent. They were turned away again and again just because they would use a housing voucher to help pay for rent. Discrimination like this is why the Lincoln for Fair Housing coalition worked to get source of
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On Tuesday, June 16, the Omaha City Council will hold a public hearing on Councilmember Danny Begley’s proposal to ensure that Omaha residents are paid a fair wage by restoring the protections the state legislature removed this year. This hearing builds on the momentum from the Lincoln City Council’s decision to reestablish what Nebraskans voted for in 2022, when nearly 60%
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Yesterday, Nebraska’s delegation and Congress took the unprecedented step of passing a toxic and irresponsible budget reconciliation bill providing an additional $70 billion of deficit spending for ICE violence and mass detention of neighbors. This action bypassed strong public opposition and the normal budget process to supply ICE with more funding – on top of the
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Earlier this week, the federal government released a rule telling states how to implement the Medicaid expansion work reporting requirements. Nebraska’s bad decision to implement work requirements on May 1st before this rule was released – eight months before required by law – is already causing mass chaos and confusion as people try to get the health
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Congress is likely to vote soon on a bill that goes around the normal budget process to funnel an additional $70 billion of taxpayer funds into ICE violence and mass detention plans. Public opposition successfully stopped this in the normal budget process (and has begun to slow this fast-track bill). But Congress is expected to return
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***For Immediate Release*** Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Contact: Sierra Salgado Pirigyi Communications Director, Nebraska Appleseed Office: (402) 438-8853 ext 116 sierrasp@neappleseed.org RELEASE: New Federal Rule Upends Nebraska’s Decision to Implement Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Early Nebraska Must Press Pause on Implementing Medicaid Work Requirements LINCOLN, NE – Late yesterday afternoon, the Centers for Medicaid and