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Pages tagged "healthcare"


Texas IAF Calls On State Comptroller to Abandon Plan to Gut Chapter 313 Subsidy Accountability Requirements

Posted on News by Austin Interfaith · December 21, 2021 3:14 PM

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"Lawmakers have ordered Comptroller Glenn Hegar to wrap up Texas’s biggest corporate tax break program, but he wants to give companies one last gift: an end to public accountability.

Activists, corporate relocation specialists and lawmakers are scrambling to comment on Hegar’s proposal that companies no longer report key data about their progress toward meeting the terms of their property tax abatement agreements.

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Interfaith groups that fought the corporate giveaway that hurts Texas children demanded Hegar roll back his plan on Wednesday.

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“What is the benefit of less accountability and less transparency?” San Antonio state Senator José Menéndez asked at a Texas Industrial Areas Foundation press conference. “The taxpayer should know how their money is going to be used and what they are getting in exchange.”

[Photo Credit: Mark Mulligan, San Antonio Express News]

Texas Comptroller Proposes Covering Up Corporate Welfare Program, The Houston Chronicle [pdf]

Network of Texas IAF Organizations, along with Public Officials, Hold Press Conference to Call on Comptroller Hegar to Abandon Attempt to Gut Chapter 313 Transparency and Accountability, Texas IAF

Taylor: The Chapter 313 Monster — the Mother of All Corporate Welfare — Revives?, San Antonio Express News [pdf]


AI Leaders Offer Ideas for Use of Medical Center

Posted on News by Jim OQuinn · July 15, 2014 3:00 PM

At a Central Health public hearing over how to use UMC Brackenridge when it closes and a replacement teaching hospital opens in 2017, Austin Interfaith leader suggested putting an array of social services on the campus.  Services like daytime mental health care of seniors would simultaneously provide caregivers with short-term respite.  “It could be a haven of hope for Austin” residents, Zapata said.

Residents Offer Ideas for Using UMC Brackenridge, Austin American Statesman


Dove Springs Leaders Fight for Neighborhood Healthcare

Posted on News by Jim OQuinn · August 30, 2013 4:59 AM

Austin Interfaith leader Ofelia Zapata has been fighting for neighborhood healthcare solutions in Dove Springs."Central Health is building a 70,000-square foot facility called the Southeast Health and Wellness Center. Slated to open in fall 2014, the center will cost Travis County taxpayers about $8 million. It will have exercise classes and nutrition counseling, aimed at combating some of the area’s biggest health challenges.  But one of its strongest critics is Ofelia Zapata..."

[Photo Credit: Felipa Rodriguez for KUT News]

A Tipping Point for Healthcare in Dove Springs?, KUT News

Public Calls for Health Organization To Be More Open, Austin American Statesman (08/07/13)


Austin Interfaith Leverages Republican Support for Medicaid Expansion

Posted on News by Jim OQuinn · March 02, 2013 2:48 PM

In the face of opposition from prominent Texas Republicans and Gov. Rick Perry, an increasing number of local government officials are urging legislators to expand Medicaid and obtain a federal funding windfall....Last week, the Travis County Commissioners Court tweaked a Feb. 19 resolution calling for a Medicaid expansion to satisfy its lone Republican member. That bipartisan support was “absolutely critical,” said Oralia Garza Cortes, a leader with Austin Interfaith, an advocacy group. Sister organizations in Dallas and Bexar counties helped pass similar resolutions.

On Tuesday, a group of Medicaid recipients and uninsured Texans is planning to rally at the Capitol in support of expanding the program."

Local Officials Lobby GOP Leaders to Rethink Medicaid Expansion, Austin American Statesman

 

Medicaid Expansion Would Bring $200M+ to Travis County

Posted on News by Jim OQuinn · February 26, 2013 2:15 PM

The court spent time Tuesday tweaking the resolution that it passed last week to satisfy its lone Republican member, Gerald Daugherty. It was approved unanimously, 5-0.  Austin Interfaith leader Oralia Garza Cortes called the bipartisan support “absolutely critical” and said that sister organizations of the advocacy group in Dallas and Bexar counties helped pass similar resolutions this month."

Medicaid Expansion Would Bring More Than $200 Million to Travis County, Commissioners Say, Austin American Statesman 


Texas IAF Leaders Fight for Medicaid Expansion

Posted on News by Jim OQuinn · February 21, 2013 4:40 PM

undefined“Austin Interfaith, and the Network of Texas Organizations, convened 200 leaders from various faith traditions on the steps of the Capitol to call on Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Legislature to expand Medicaid.

Religious leaders and clergy from throughout the state gathered at the north entrance the Capitol on Wednesday at noon to rally in support of Medicaid expansion…”

[Photo Credit: Tamir Kalifa, Texas Tribune]

Interfaith Groups Rally for Medicaid Expansion, Texas Tribune

Faith Leaders Rally at Capitol for Medicaid, KXAN

Faith Leaders Rally for Bipartisan Support for Medicaid Expansion, Texas Observer

Death, Taxes, God and Medicaid, San Antonio Express-News

County Judges, Clergy Rally in Favor of Expanding Medicaid, Dallas Morning News

Rally at Capitol Urges Texas to Spend More on Medicaid, Star Telegram

Interfaith Groups Rally for Medicaid Expansion, The Monitor

El Paso Group Joins Others to Urge Expansion of Medicaid, El Paso Times


AI Leverages County Support for Medicaid Expansion

Posted on News by Jim OQuinn · February 20, 2013 4:41 PM

“At the urging of Austin Interfaith, the Travis County Commissioners Court this week passed a resolution supporting expansion. Dallas County has approved a similar resolution, and Bexar County is expected to do the same next week….

County and legislative leaders joined members of religious organizations, including Austin Interfaith, in a rally outside the Capitol Wednesday afternoon to urge Texas lawmakers to expand the number of low-income people covered by Medicaid.”

Religious Leaders, Politicians, Rally for Medicaid Expansion, Austin American Statesman


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