by Kristyn Senters | Jan 14, 2020 | Army of Advocates
House Bill 2697 went into effect on September 1, 2019. A bill that you, our Army of Advocates, helped support and get passed! It added clarity to the criminal definition of identity theft in Texas to ensure that it covers coerced debt and financial abuse, which...
by txwfwomensfdev | Sep 24, 2019 | Army of Advocates
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) was created in 2009 and authorized $3 billion in general obligation bonds to provide grants for cancer research, prevention and control programs in Texas. In that last 10 years, CPRIT has issued $2.26...
by txwfwomensfdev | Aug 27, 2019 | Army of Advocates
9/03/2019 In June 2019, $383.4 million in SNAP benefits was distributed in Texas to approximately 1.5 million people – an average of $260 per case. In the following month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) published a proposed...
by txwfwomensfdev | Aug 8, 2019 | Army of Advocates
8/08/2019 As promised in our last Army report, today we are talking about sex. Comprehensive sex education that is. In Economic Issues for Women in Texas, Texas Women’s Foundation has continued to focus on four building blocks of economic security: child care, health...
by txwfwomensfdev | Jul 15, 2019 | Army of Advocates
7/15/2019 While the spring Army reports were all about happenings at the 86th Texas Legislature, that is not the only place Texas Women’s Foundation works to advance policies and programs for women and girls in Texas. We supported two very exciting wins in Dallas this...
by txwfwomensfdev | Jun 18, 2019 | Army of Advocates
6/18/2019 Dear Army of Advocates! The 86th Texas Legislature is done, there is no special session and, while not a complete win for the issues Texas Women’s Foundation supported to advance economic security for women, it was a very good session for women, working...
