This alert comes from the New York Association on Independent Living (NYAIL), via the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS).
Call on Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to Demand that Federal Emergency Relief Funding is Allocated to the States!
COVID-19 has devastated the United States economy and eviscerated the tax revenue that governments need to provide essential services.
• States, Cities and Counties from across the United States are about to run out of money.
• Medicaid and education systems will be devastated.
• Wages won’t be paid.
• Vital services like behavioral healthcare and other critical human services won’t be delivered at a time when they’re most desperately needed.
Only the Federal Government has the ability to solve this problem!
New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand Must Take the Lead.
Call Senator Schumer Now at 202-224-6542
Call Senator Gillibrand Now at 202-224-4451
and insist that “that the Senate must not pass another bill without ensuring that the next round of Federal Emergency Relief funding addresses the disaster in our states!