One simple chart tells it all
12/20/2017
"The tax plan before Congress is a terrible deal for Washington state. At a time of economic inequality in our nation, we must not increase taxes on many working families or blow a $1.5 trillion hole in the federal budget just to help the wealthiest Americans and corporations. This bill also would result in hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians losing health coverage." - Gov. Jay Inslee
Here and for you to download is a simple chart that tells why the tax deal is a bad deal for WA.
How the vote affects CHIP
Kids’ health should never be a partisan issue, but it has become one in Congress.
About 9 million children in working families get covered through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which enjoys bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. But Congress hasn’t been able to agree on a way to keep CHIP going.
Sadly, that means the prospect of many of those 9 million children losing their health insurance is drawing closer. Funding for the program, which covers kids of low- and middle-income families, lapsed on September 30.
Carving up classrooms
A college degree can open doors. For many public service workers, higher education is a path to getting ahead at work and helping our kids start life on the right foot. But the cost of a college degree and the burden of student loans has already put these opportunities out of reach for too many working families.
And now, Congress is threatening to make things worse.
The latest round of harmful cuts that House leaders are pursuing would weaken or eliminate a raft of higher-education programs.
H.R. 4508, the House bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA), seeks to get rid of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. PSLF encourages people to pursue careers in public service in exchange for loan forgiveness. Eliminating PSLF, which was created in 2007 under former President George W. Bush, would do away with an important incentive for people to pursue professions in fields such as education, social services, public-interest law and even medicine.
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