JUNEAU, AK – At a time when Alaska faces urgent youth mental health and suicide prevention challenges, state legislators this past Saturday voted to sustain Governor Mike Dunleavy’s veto of SB 41, Public Schools: Mental Health Education–a bipartisan bill that would have directed the State Board of Education to develop guidelines for mental health […]
“Millions losing SNAP, including children, is an emergency that Congress needs to fix now, before more people are hurt.” An analysis updated Monday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that millions of people, including more than 800,000 children, have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits since Republicans’ 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect. In […]
JUNEAU, AK – Thursday, Governor Mike Dunleavy vetoed SB 41, Public Schools: Mental Health Education, bipartisan legislation that would have helped ensure Alaska students receive age-appropriate mental health education and have the tools to recognize signs of distress in themselves and others, reduce stigma, and know how to ask for help. Inseparable, a national […]
“SNAP participation is already declining at alarming rates, with over 3.5 million people leaving” the program since the passage of the GOP budget law, the Democratic senators said. Several US senators who formerly served as their states’ governors on Tuesday warned that the cuts to food aid in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act […]