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Arise celebrates #Juneteenth in honor of the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans. In honor of this day, our office is closed today. We encourage staff, members and supporters to use this time to reflect on ways we all can support and empower Black communities across Alabama.

"Alabama Arise estimates that the state will also have to pay an additional $35 million annually to cover increased SNAP administrative costs," the Alabama Daily News reports. #alpolitics aldailynews.com/britt-tubervil…

House Republicans’ reconciliation bill would be the deepest cut to #SNAP in history if enacted. Senate Republican leaders just proposed their own version of the bill, which would *also* be the deepest cut to SNAP in history if enacted.

“It’s really scary to think about how hunger could get a lot worse in Alabama if these cuts pass,” Arise’s LaTrell Clifford Wood tells Savannah Tryens-Fernandes at AL.com. #alpolitics al.com/news/2025/06/m…

Proposed federal cuts to SNAP and health care could increase hunger and suffering for hundreds of thousands of Alabamians. “This is not just numbers,” Arise’s Debbie Smith tells Birmingham Watch. #alpolitics birminghamwatch.org/2025/06/03/bir…

“If we all say, ‘Nothing I do matters’ and we all sit here and do nothing, then we’re really going to be in trouble,” Birmingham resident Virginia tells Arise storyteller Whit Sides. #alpolitics #CoverAlabama alarise.org/resources/virg…

"The increase [proposed for SNAP administrative costs] would cost Alabama $35 million per year, according to an Alabama Arise estimate," Alex Angle at Alabama Daily News reports. #alpolitics aldailynews.com/gop-plan-to-pa…

But the core of what’s happening remains the same: the Senate is rushing through a bill that would leave millions uninsured by cutting #Medicaid & marketplace coverage by hundreds of billions of dollars. cbpp.org/research/healt…