{"id":14,"date":"2014-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2014\/06\/04\/faithful-fridays-continue-raise-your-voice-for-budget-equality\/"},"modified":"2014-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"faithful-fridays-continue-raise-your-voice-for-budget-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/04\/faithful-fridays-continue-raise-your-voice-for-budget-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful Fridays Continue \u2013 Raise Your Voice for Budget Equality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none; font-style:normal; font-weight:400; color:rgb(70, 69, 69); \">                      <strong style=\"\"><em style=\"\"><span style=\"\">Faithful Fridays in California Continue!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Dear Friends:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">We are encouraging your continued work on \u201cFaithful Fridays\u201d, our version of the North Carolina \u201cMoral Mondays\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Since it\u2019s almost impossible for most of you to get to our Capitol every week, we encourage you to take your voices to your local officials right there in your district. Now that the primary election is over, they will be in their home offices or will have staff available to hear you.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">We are still pressing the budget issues.\u00a0 With the vote due June 15, it is essential that we lift our voices for restoring part of the safety net that got shredded over the past years of scarcity and loss of revenue.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">We urge you to speak to one-third of the surplus \u2013 $4 BILLION dollars \u2013 being used to pay overtime for In Home Supportive Services caretakers who are about to be reduced in hours and pay; for childcare funding; for expansion of CalWORKs cash assistance, or whatever your local issues may be.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Make an appointment with your state representatives at their district office or just arrive with signs, with petitions, with letters, with songs letting them know that a moral budget cares for people at least as much as for reducing our debt and setting up a rainy day fund.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">For help finding the nearest office please go to: <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.churchimpact.org\/take-action.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"\">http:\/\/www.churchimpact.org\/take-action.html<\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Let us know what you\u2019re doing, and don\u2019t forget to tell your local media either.\u00a0 \u201cFaithful Fridays\u201d is how we can let our elected officials know what we believe is important!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>  <span style=\"\">Thank you!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>      <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful Fridays in California Continue! Dear Friends: We are encouraging your continued work on \u201cFaithful Fridays\u201d, our version of the North Carolina \u201cMoral Mondays\u201d. Since &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/04\/faithful-fridays-continue-raise-your-voice-for-budget-equality\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}