Food pantries, open dinners, and other direct services are important responses to hunger emergencies. Advocacy for policy changes is needed in addition to direct service to make the food system function for everyone. IIRAH members are organized to be the voice for change.
Op-Eds and Media Interviews
- Opinion: Congress must invest in stable and affordable homes, Post Register (2021)
- Opinion: Congress must invest in stable and affordable homes, Magic Valley (2021)
- Idaho doesn’t review its tax exemptions…, Idaho Capitol Sun (2021)
- It’s time for…repealing tax on groceries, Idaho Statesman (2018)
- Repealing grocery tax means better access, prices for food, Idaho Statesman (2017)
Letters and Testimony Before the ID Legislature
- Fair Taxation (testimony, 2016)
- Child Support (letter, 2015)
- Fair Taxation (testimony, 2015)
- Protecting Idaho’s Grocery Tax Credit (letter, 2014)
IIRAH Position Papers
- Grocery Sales Tax (2016)
- Food Deserts (2015)
- Grocery Tax Credit (2014)
- Staggered Issuance of SNAP Benefits (2014)
- Wage Justice (2013)
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