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Austin Leaders Kill Zoning Entitlement

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · May 16, 2013 3:25 PM

"The Austin City Council did away with the CURE zoning process at its last meeting, but the zoning entitlement program didn't go quietly. The public hearing before the Council's vote was characterized by a heated exchange between Mayor Lee Leffingwelland Interfaith Austin's Kurt Cadena-Mitchell.

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Austin Interfaith Calls on City to Enforce Its Own Rules on Economic Incentives and Construction Wages

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · May 08, 2013 11:04 AM
AAS - Labor advocates ask court to step into Marriott dispute"The Austin-based Workers Defense Project is asking the courts to step into its wage dispute with the developers of the downtown Austin J.W. Marriott hotel under construction.

'Developers need to keep their promises to taxpayers and workers, and the city must enforce its own rules,' said Kurt Cadena-Mitchell, a leader of Austin Interfaith, a multi-congregation group pushing the city to establish a standard above minimum wage on construction projects that are granted economic development deals by the city."

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DAI Calls on TX Legislature to Support Medicaid Expansion Bill

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · May 06, 2013 11:32 AM
Leaders of Dallas Area Interfaith called on Texas legislators to support bi-partisan House Bill 3791 which would expand Medicaid to insure an additional 1.5 million Texans. Clergy from Jewish, Catholic and Protestant congregations announced that DAI had collected over 5,000 signatures in the last few months in support of expansion Medicaid.

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TMO Press Conference Responds to Immigration Bill

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · April 24, 2013 1:13 PM
El Empresario Stan Marek" Nieto spoke Tuesday during a news conference called by The Metropolitan Organization at which Houston faith and business leaders responded to a new plan for comprehensive immigration reform. The legislation, unveiled last week by a bipartisan group of senators, is the first major overhaul of U.S. immigration policy since 1986.

Speakers including Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Bishop Janice Riggle Huie of the Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, and Rabbi David Lyon of Congregation Beth Israel said the highest priority should be creating a process for undocumented immigrants to earn legal status and eventual citizenship."

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Capital IDEA Carves Out Career Paths in Austin

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · April 14, 2013 11:01 AM
"Representatives from Austin Interfaith and the local business community founded Capital IDEA in 1998, and Steven Jackobs has been heading the organization ever since. Under his direction, the group has helped support, train and find careers for hundreds of Central Texas workers and their families. Capital IDEA – the IDEA stands for Investing in Development and Employment of Adults – works closely with unemployed or underemployed workers to identify a viable and fruitful career path. It's a rigorous process that's designed to ensure that workers are committed to the training and completing it...."

Capital IDEA Leads Clients to Career Path, Austin American Statesman


Valley Interfaith Brings Spanish GED Prep to Hidalgo County

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · April 11, 2013 1:18 PM

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El Paso Times Editors Support EPISO in School Board Fight

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 18, 2013 4:23 PM

Clint Independent School District trustees, presented with an easy opportunity to expand representative democracy, punted. They had no good explanation for failing to make an easy decision, just mutterings about needing more time to study...."The El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization has been the leader in the movement to reform Clint ISD's voting patterns.

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EPISO, With El Paso Elected Officials, Challenges Governor

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 10, 2013 9:35 AM
Elected officials and members of Border Interfaith and the El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization joined the CEOs of University Medical Center and Del Sol Medical Center to push for expanded Medicaid coverage to insure 1.5 million uninsured Texans, including about 135,000 El Pasoans....

Lucy Nashed, a deputy press secretary for the governor, in an email said Perry is against a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, but is interested in flexibility from the federal government "to address the challenges in the current broken Medicaid system."

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Austin Interfaith Applauds National Instruments for Living Wage

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 08, 2013 11:44 AM

"National Instruments Corp. won approval Thursday for $1.7 million in city of Austin incentives to support the company's proposed expansion of 1,000 Austin jobs over the next 10 years....

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NTO Rallies with Hundreds For Texas Medicaid Expansion

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 06, 2013 11:19 AM
"Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday on the front steps of the Capitol to rally in support of Medicaid expansion....Willie Bennett, along with 45 other members of the Dallas Area Interfaith, turned up for the march that snaked down Congress Avenue and up to the Capitol. Bennett said more than 3,000 individuals and 38 institutions had signed up in favor of Medicaid expansion."

"Anderson and her 66-year-old mother, Martha Anderson, were among about 60 Tarrant County residents who gathered at the St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Fort Worth ... for the 200-mile bus trip to Austin. The trip was organized by the Allied Communities of Tarrant (ACT)" in coordination with the Network of Texas Organizations, including Austin Interfaith, The Border Organization, EPISO, Border Interfaith, TMO, WIN, WTOS, Valley Interfaith and COPS / Metro Alliance.

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