Issues

Current Issues

Position Papers

• Exempting Groceries from the Idaho Sales Tax and Eliminating the Grocery Tax Credit – Executive Summary (2017)
• Grocery Sales Tax (2016)
• Food Deserts (2015)
• Grocery Tax Credit (2014)
• Staggered Issuance of SNAP Benefits (2014)
• Wage Justice (2013)

Letters and Testimony Before the Idaho Legislature

• Fair Taxation (testimony, 2016)
• Child Support (letter, 2015)
• Fair Taxation (testimony, 2015)
• Protecting Idaho’s Grocery Tax Credit (letter, 2014)

IIRAH’s Spring & Fall Forums

Program:  The Rent Eats First (spring 2019)

• Presenter biographies
• Powerpoint: Housing Affordability in Idaho
• Housing Market Overview – Erik Kingston
• What You Can Do to Make a Difference and Bibliography
• If You Want to Learn More – links to additional organizations
• Photos from the event

Program: What Shall We Do About ALICE? (spring 2017)

• Presentation: ALICE Report + Community Needs
• Event photos by Carl Van Slyke

Program: Exploring Justice in the Food System (spring 2016)

• Handout: Agenda, food justice DVDs, ways to make a difference

Program: Food Deserts in Idaho (2015)

• Handout: Definition and implications of food deserts 
• Report: Duck Valley Food Security
• Presentation: Idaho’s First Mobile Farmers Market
• Presentation: Duck Valley Indian Reservation Food Security
• Presentation: Food Deserts
• Response from an attendee: ‘The public meeting…affected me personally’

Newsletter Archive

IIRAH actively communicates with the public during the Idaho legislative session to increase awareness of key issues as they arise. Please visit our email archives for a recap of our advocacy efforts, and subscribe to our mailing list for future updates.

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