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AFSCME Protester with sign reading "State Budget Harms Quality Services!"

In Washington DC, statehouses, and city halls across the county, AFSCME members are fighting for the budgets and resources necessary to provide high quality public services.  We fight against unfair and irresponsible tax cuts that benefit the wealthy few at the expense of working families.  We are constantly on the alert for wasteful contracts, special-interest tax breaks and corporate subsidies that weaken government’s ability to provide quality public education, access to health care, decent transportation systems, and safe and healthy families and communities.  We are taxpayers, too, so we work to improve the public’s understanding that there is a cost to public services that requires everyone to pay their fair share.

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Vanetta Lloyd
Council 4, Connecticut

Vanetta Lloyd

"Working families depend on services like student loans and Medicare to get by, so we have to stop budget cuts that pay for tax breaks for the extreme wealthy."