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WV Center of Budget & Policy: Strategy Convening to Protect WV Programs & Services – FREE
Registration is now live for our December 17th convening which will take place from 2- 4:30pm to strategize together about protecting public services and programs that children, families, and businesses rely on during the West Virginia legislative session next year. In addition to potential revenue and budget challenges due to the economic impacts of the pandemic, West Virginia lawmakers are likely to consider regressive tax cuts that would also harm state and local governments’ abilities to provide needed services- just as families dealing with the recession and pandemic need them the most.
Please join us to talk about how the pandemic and possible tax cuts could impact the programs and services we care about and to strategize about how we can work across organizations to protect critical revenues in West Virginia to meet the needs of children and families. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpcuGorT8pG9BMAlWr5Ex1RrL0gRIyAWXD
A more detailed agenda is forthcoming later this month, but planned speakers and sessions include:
-Sean O’Leary, senior policy analyst for the WV Center on Budget and Policy, who will share new research showing that states that protected jobs and public services during prior recessions saw quicker economic recoveries
-Seth DiStefano, policy outreach director for the WV Center on Budget and Policy, who will talk through the legislative threats and lead us in a coordinated strategic conversation
-Small group discussions on how we can coordinate across organizations ahead of and during the session, messaging, what tools and resources we can commit to the effort, new legislator outreach, and next steps.
Feel free to reach out to Kelly Allen if you have any questions:
Kelly Allen
Executive Director
WV Center on Budget and Policy
304-612-4180