For decades, Indiana state has locked people up who are struggling with addiction and housing insecurity, but criminalizing drug use and poverty has failed to solve either of these problems, which have been further exacerbated by skyrocketing rent.
We're coming together on the last day of the session to call out the effort to criminalize homelessness, weaken Indiana’s syringe services programs, and increase barriers to Medicaid.
Join us tomorrow, Thursday February 26th for the 2nd Annual Harm Reduction Day at the Statehouse! It's not too late to register at hoosieraction.org/events. We're meeting at 11 am on the South Steps of the Statehouse for a vigil and press conference and will meet with legislators afterward.
NEW: When our politics feel distant and impersonal, place-based organizing is how we restore politics to a human scale: neighbors coming together to defend what they love and demand accountability where they live.
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“I understand what the frustrations are, but us in the county jail becoming a homeless shelter — a quasi-homeless shelter — is not the answer, because it’s an added expense to our taxpayers,” Porter County Sheriff Jeff Balon said.
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The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office says it stands with other Indiana sheriff’s offices in opposing Senate Bill 285.
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Our partners in Indiana, @hoosieraction.bsky.social , showed up with people power. ✊
When lawmakers tried to gut Medicaid, advocates organized & shared their stories to block SB 2’s harm.
This could be a blueprint for defending care.
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#HealthJustice
1 in 5 US households have medical debt hurting their credit.
Medical debt isn’t a measure of creditworthiness—it’s a measure of a broken health-care system.
But a judge struck down a CFPB rule to keep it off credit reports. 👇
Indiana proposed changes to Medicaid waivers that provide home and community-based services including a significant cap on certain therapy services. Advocates and providers said the proposal from the IN Family & Social Services Administration would harm people with disabilities and isolate them.
Previously closed slots for Indiana’s Medicaid waivers reopened on July 1. Those slots released by the state for the coming year will only cover about one-third of the 13.4k people on the Health and Wellness and the Pathways waiver waitlists.
We need you to take action TODAY to stop the dangerous federal #Medicaid cuts! Vote could happen as early as this afternoon. Go to hoosieraction.org/medicaid for more info & a call scripts. Join us Tuesday night for an action party. Register at hoosieraction.org/events.
Just in case you missed this headline.
They can tweak the Big Bad Bill all they want, but the plan is still the same: gut Medicaid to make billionaires richer.
Don’t be fooled.
A bad bill with edits is still a bad bill.
We won't stay silent.
#HandsOffMedicaid #ThisBillKills
Breaking news: The Supreme Court upheld a portion of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide free preventive care such as cancer screenings, contraception and immunizations.
The Senate is trying to push forward dangerous Medicaid cuts THIS weekend! Please CALL your Senators TODAY & voice your opposition to Medicaid cuts to fund a billionaire tax giveaway! We've got phone numbers and a call script on our website 👇
www.hoosieraction.org/medicaid
The CEO of a prominent Indiana food bank on Wednesday said proposed cuts to SNAP and Medicaid “would be a disaster” for every single Hoosier. Fred Glass, CEO of Gleaners Food Bank, said these cuts would leave a catastrophic impact on the food insecure, Indiana workers, and communities.
Tell Congress: NO CUTS TO HOOSIER HEALTHCARE! Action Party Saturday 6/28 1-3:30 pm ET Register at https://www.hoosieraction.org/events.
🚨Medicaid is under attack!🚨 We’re in a battle to save #Medicaid from dangerous federal cuts. Now is the time to step up to protect healthcare for 1.9 million Hoosier kids, adults & elders. Join us on Saturday at 1 pm ET for an Action Party on Zoom! Register at hoosieraction.org/events to join us
They're one of the many families who stop by Churches In Mission in Mooresville twice a month. The organization said they are serving more than double the amount of families this year than they did during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the Sun Bucks cut. share.google/XEeXHwriVH5x...
State legislators have cut Indianapolis public health funding by more than 70% — hampering long-term efforts to improve the city’s vaccination rates, maternal mortality and child health.
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🔥 CONGRATULATIONS Amy, Anthony Tony and everyone from @hoosieraction.bsky.social on your BIG WIN as harm reduction becomes law in Indiana! Care Not Cuffs - this law will save lives, thanks to you! 👏
Chris Karam, President of St. Joseph Health in Mishawaka, IN says 72% of Medicaid adults are working and nearly 40% of Medicaid enrollees are children. "The Medicaid program covers 20% of our population...A lot of people don’t know that.” He says cuts would put Hoosiers in a fragile state.
Indiana residents can apply for money from the state to help make their home more energy efficient. The Indiana Office of Energy Development opened up more than $180 million in home energy rebates for Hoosiers last week.
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An excerpt of Deloitte’s marketing contract shows its $300,000 per month expenditure on reports on its own performance, $250,000 per month for community outreach, $478,000 Final Marketing and Outreach Campaign Report, and $10.7 million total budget.
After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month.
A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million.
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And this legislation is back for a third time, now as amendments to HB 1014. Call today, the vote may come very quickly.
Addressing his colleagues Thursday, Sen. Ron Alting, R-Lafayette, asked for compassion in legislation relating to people living on city streets and said the government’s role is to “support them, not to go against them.”
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IN SB 197 will turn homeless people with no shelter into criminals with rap sheets! This must be stopped immediately! www.votervoice.net/mobile/IACED...
From Hoosier Action @hoosieraction.bsky.social
At The Woods at Oak Crossing apartment complex, I-Team 8 spoke with four different Black women with children. All four said their rent nearly doubled in the last four years. They all fear being evicted.
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🧟ZOMBIE BILL ALERT🧟: Stop the Criminalization of Homelessness! We need your help to stop a dangerous zombie amendment on SB 197, which criminalizes homelessness. By taking action together, we killed this bill once, and we need your help to do it again!
Language that would allegedly "criminalize homelessness" has been added to an unrelated Senate bill at the Indiana Statehouse.
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