
Don’t Underestimate the Power of the State with Melissa Walker
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The Power of State Legislators
After that holiday party actually in 2016 it was in 2017 I got together with some other children's book authors and formed a giving circle because we wanted to start focusing on state legislatures. There are over 10 states that still have an expanded Medicaid which is part of the Affordable Care Act but like they don't want to implement it. Then overwhelmingly as a ballot measure in the 2022 midterms new mexicans voted to keep this program because it was directly benefiting their lives so that's one and not just one other example of how states use federal power to impact the lives of their citizenshow they use federal money is is one way yes absolutely.
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