Sign the petition below to urge the Governor and legislators to raise revenue and help families weather this storm.
To Governor Gregoire and the Washington State Legislature:
For the people of Washington State to live up to our shared values and succeed economically over the long term, we must make investments in core priorities. After billions in cuts last year, the additional cuts now under consideration for 2010 would result in higher class sizes and fewer resources for schools, hundreds of thousands of our fellow residents without access to healthcare (including 16,000 children), sharp reductions to the services that protect kids, the disabled, the elderly, and most vulnerable, and in more polluted air, and dirtier water.
These cuts will undermine our state's ability to compete, and will result in the loss of thousands of additional jobs at a time when our economy is hurting and too many are already out of work. There is a better way. We urge you to:
To Governor Gregoire and the Washington State Legislature:
For the people of Washington State to live up to our shared values and succeed economically over the long term, we must make investments in core priorities. After billions in cuts last year, the additional cuts now under consideration for 2010 would result in higher class sizes and fewer resources for schools, hundreds of thousands of our fellow residents without access to healthcare (including 16,000 children), sharp reductions to the services that protect kids, the disabled, the elderly, and most vulnerable, and in more polluted air, and dirtier water.
These cuts will undermine our state's ability to compete, and will result in the loss of thousands of additional jobs at a time when our economy is hurting and too many are already out of work. There is a better way. We urge you to:
- Protect our economic future by preventing further erosion of the things that residents value so much about our state: quality schools, affordable health care, a safety net for the most vulnerable, affordable housing, public safety, and a clean environment.
- Adopt a balanced approach to closing the current budget shortfall that includes closing unfair tax loopholes and identifying new revenue sources to stabilize the funding for these programs in the short and long term.