House Vote: Stimulus Package
Summary: Extends unemployment benefits, provides help with the high cost of food and home energy, and prevents cuts to Medicaid and other services
Result: Bill Passed
A vote for the bill was counted as a + vote (in line with LCCR's position)
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Bill Name: Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008
Bill Number: H.R. 2642
Issue: Budget
Date: 05/15/08
Roll Call No. 330
LCCR supported a comprehensive stimulus package that included extended unemployment benefits, help with the high cost of food and home energy, funds to states to prevent cuts to Medicaid, child support, and other services, and school repair.
Strengthening these programs would provide immediate and necessary support to the Americans who are least capable of absorbing the costs of a downturn because they have been squeezed and excluded from recent economic growth.
Moreover, because people of color and ethnic/linguistic minorities are disproportionately low-income, they are disproportionately threatened by this recession. A failure to take steps toward shared recovery would thus also widen the pernicious racial/ethnic gap in income and assets.
Result: The House passed H.R. 2642 (256-166).
