Exciting news to share! Last week, Governor Ivey signed two pieces of legislation into law that will improve the health and well-being of Alabama's parents and babies. 🧵
Our future is about improving yours! Join us in celebrating our advocacy colleagues who make an exceptional commitment to advancing public policies that improve health and well-being for people everywhere. Congratulations to our 2023-24 advocacy staff award recipients! ❤️🏅
Alabama students — it’s Governor Kay Ivey! I’m checking in to see if y’all have taken my Summer Reading Challenge yet! 📚#GKIsSummerReadingChallenge#alpolitics
To join the reading fun, please visit: https://t.co/jVRamEsmRF
@ the NCIT, 5 states Power Sharing. Thank you @GovernorKayIvey and AL Leg 4 PN3 policies! Up next Parental Paid Leave!
✅Postpartum Extension
✅Childcare standards
✅Funding for childcare standards
✅Childcare Tax Credits
✅Double Up Food Bucks
✅Summer EBT
"You wouldn’t trust a thief to sell you a home alarm system. So why should we trust cigarette companies to help reduce tobacco use?"
🗞️ @thehill unveils the tobacco industry's false narrative of electronic devices as smoking cessation tools.
More 👉 https://t.co/Utug0KZ6DO
@alroker my mom said the same thing about having 6 dishwashers! To this day she does not use her dishwasher and we wash the dishes when we are there 😂😂😂
Prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes & flavored cigars would mark a historic turning point in the #TobaccoEndgame. @amheartadvocacy, 79 orgs & grassroots advocates nationwide are urging the administration to release these lifesaving rules w/o delay.
@clairecmc which bills should we advocate for the algorithm for social media and children? I certainly don’t want to advocate for one that the industry helps write.
@HeyDanaSweeney @RepEngland70 Did also hear everyone blame children 4 being addicted 2 nicotine & want kids punished? No one mentioned the industry and Retailers/adults selling it to kids. hB319 hurts kids not helps them. Hoping 4 some amendmts that holds those selling the products responsible.
Nearly 300,000 Alabamians with low incomes would benefit from #MedicaidExpansion.
Join Doctors for America on Saturday, May 13, for advocacy training in Birmingham, AL or virtually.
@CoverAlabama@AlabamaArise
In-Person: https://t.co/QtJ1kIZah2
Virtual: https://t.co/vgwcotxRlS