Focus Issues

The Kansas Progressive Causus has choosen Social Justice as it's overarching concern, with Healthcare and Tax Fairness (in particular working to stop TABOR) as it's primary focus issues.

To persue these issues, the caucus participates in:

Kansas Health Care For All
This is a Non-Profit Non-Partisan Group Advocating For Universal Health Care Access

Kansas Action Network
The caucus is a member of the Kansas Action Network (KAN), a coalition of labor unions, family farm groups, peace and justice groups, disability rights groups, and others working to make Kansas a place of economic justice for all.

At a retreat in the spring of 2005, KAN decided to focus its energy on one goal: making the minimum wage a living wage in every community in Kansas. The idea behind the living wage is that people who work in a community should be able to live decently and raise their families in that community. A person working full time at the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour earns an annual income of $10,712. That is not enough to bring her or him above the official federal poverty level for a parent with one child, much less to provide a sparce but decent existence for a family. The Kansas state minimum wage is $2.65, about half of the federal rate. This needs to change!

Coalition for a Prosperous Kansas
This group formed to fight TABOR (“Taxpayer Bill of Rights”), a proposal to amend the Kansas Constitution to sharply constrain elected representatives’ ability to raise taxes, even if they determined that was in the best interests of the people of the state. Read more at: www.tabortruth.org/coalition.html