We use grassroots public policy advocacy to hold elected officials accountable to the needs of their working class constituents. Each year, we organize mass call-ins, letter-writing campaigns, delegation visits with legislators and public accountability sessions.

These activities bring low-income activists together with unions, senior organizations, and community leaders to form a coalition that legislators cannot afford to ignore. More powerful than any statistics, the stories of low-income activists put a face on issues like affordable housing, welfare, and child-care.

		Delegation visits bring organizational allies together with low-income activists to meet with legislators to educate them about each of our issues and ask for their support.
		Accountability sessions are large open forums attended by the press where activists give public testimony about the issues affecting their lives, propose solutions and ask for commitments from legislators.
		Call-ins and letter-writing campaigns keep legislators accountable to the commitments they’ve made and pressure those who are still undecided.
		Activists in our Legislative Action Network, a statewide network of allies who contact their legislators around targeted pieces of legislation, increase our ability to impact public policy.

Click here for our ratings of each legislator on issues affecting working families

Click here to view our Priority Issues (PDF)