Economic Justice

Today, ✅ LB192, Senator Quick’s SNAP Eligibility bill, was advanced to select file!  This bill would: Find out how your senator voted here. (Find your senator.) Maintaining Nebraska’s current SNAP eligibility level would cost the state nothing. Continuing this program just makes sense and we need you to make sure your senator knows it. Thank […]

✅ LB192, Senator Quick’s SNAP Eligibility bill, will be debated on general file by Nebraska senators as early as TODAY. We need your help to encourage them to vote YES to move this bill forward! This bill would: Maintaining our SNAP eligibility level would cost the state nothing! Continuing this program just makes sense and

Today, 32 senators once again ignored the will of Nebraska voters – who overwhelmingly voted to raise the minimum wage – by advancing ❌LB258 (Sen. Jane Raybould), which would harm workers by severely weakening Nebraska’s minimum wage law. LB258 carves out a subminimum wage for workers under the age of 20 AND restricts the cost

Working families are the engine that drives our economy. Paid sick leave helps hardworking Nebraskans and businesses and means people won’t have to choose between the paycheck they need and their family’s health.  Now, the will of Nebraska voters – who overwhelmingly passed paid sick leave for ALL workers last November – is being ignored

Workers and families have said this for years: No one should have to choose between a paycheck and their health. That’s why nearly 75% of Nebraska voters approved paid sick leave last November. Now, lawmakers are trying to overturn our vote by exempting certain Nebraska workers from being able to earn and use paid sick

No one should have to choose between their health and their paycheck. Last November, nearly 75% of Nebraska voters agreed by supporting Initiative 436 to approve paid sick leave for all workers.  Now, members of the Nebraska Legislature are looking to overturn the will of voters and exempt certain workers in Nebraska from being able