{"id":245200,"date":"2023-04-25T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/?p=245200"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:06:23","slug":"the-urban-league-of-louisiana-is-excited-to-share-our-2023-legislative-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/the-urban-league-of-louisiana-is-excited-to-share-our-2023-legislative-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urban League of Louisiana is excited to share our 2023 Legislative Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-245203\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Cover-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each year, we release this agenda to ensure that legislators are chiefly aware of how their proposed legislation impacts African Americans and other underserved communities within Louisiana. A few weeks ago we wrapped up a Statewide Listen &amp; Learn Tour with the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus sponsored by Southern Poverty Law Center. This tour took us to 7 cities across our state, and is one of the most important ways we are informed on policy changes needed.<\/p>\n<p>Take a quick moment to read through the\u00a049 bills we support\u00a0and the\u00a014 we oppose. Then share this report with others you know.<\/p>\n<p>It is with your interest in mind that we are supporting legislation such as HB 374 and SB 149, that seek to\u00a0increase the state minimum wage, as well as HB 318, that aims to\u00a0make our communities safer by\u00a0prohibiting the manufacturing and possession of machines guns\u00a0responsible for too many deaths in all communities of our state and country. Likewise,\u00a0we oppose SB46 because\u00a0it improperly empowers elected officials, outside of education, to regulate the materials taught in our schools. We firmly believe that education decisions impacting our students should be reserved for educational leaders and practitioners who serve our children and families. We cannot afford to politicize our children\u2019s education when we face so many challenges to improve outcomes and close education equity gaps.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/2023agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/2023agenda\/<\/a>\u00a0today to track each bill and learn now you can advocate and help advance these important causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, we release this agenda to ensure that legislators are chiefly aware of how their proposed legislation impacts African Americans and other underserved communities within Louisiana. A few weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":245201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245204,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245200\/revisions\/245204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}