{"id":15498,"date":"2014-05-19T21:09:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T21:09:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-19T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T21:23:37","slug":"california-unions-urge-support-for-states-veterans-yes-vote-on-prop-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/19\/california-unions-urge-support-for-states-veterans-yes-vote-on-prop-41\/","title":{"rendered":"California Unions Urge Support for State&#8217;s Veterans, Yes Vote on Prop 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Steve Smith<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Over 200,000 California veterans live in poverty. More than a quarter of the nation&#8217;s homeless veterans are right here in our state. We see them on the street. Their injuries &#8211; both physical and emotional &#8211; are evident. Yet, far too little is being done to help the heroes who fought for our country find a roof over their heads at night. That&#8217;s simply shameful.<\/p>\n<p>We can do better. We must do better.<\/p>\n<p>Prop 41 directs $600 million of existing Proposition 12 (Veterans Bond Act of 2008) to housing options for veterans. On June 3, California voters have an opportunity to infuse much-needed funds into transitional housing for veterans, which would go a long way to providing a warm place to sleep at night for those who have sacrificed so much to defend the very freedoms many of us take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>We proudly endorsed Prop 41 because it&#8217;s exactly the kind of thing we need to see more of here in California. The measure doesn&#8217;t ask voters for new money. It won&#8217;t cost taxpayers a dime. But what it will do is get veterans off the street. No one who has served our nation in uniform should live in poverty or be without a place to live.<\/p>\n<p>So on June 3, cast a vote to curb homelessness among our state&#8217;s veterans. Cast a vote to give our heroes in uniform a chance to build a better life. Cast a vote for Prop. 41.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesonprop41forvets.org\/faq\/\">Prop 41<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteransandlabor.com\/\">Veterans and Labor &#8211; Partners in Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Steve Smith<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Over 200,000 California veterans live in poverty. More than a quarter of the nation&#8217;s homeless veterans are right here in our state. We see them on the street. Their injuries &#8211; both physical and emotional &#8211; are evident. Yet, far too little is being done to help the heroes who fought for our country find a roof over their heads at night. That&#8217;s simply shameful.<\/p>\n<p>We can do better. We must do better.<\/p>\n<p>Prop 41 directs $600 million of existing Proposition 12 (Veterans Bond Act of 2008) to housing options for veterans. On June 3, California voters have an opportunity to infuse much-needed funds into transitional housing for veterans, which would go a long way to providing a warm place to sleep at night for those who have sacrificed so much to defend the very freedoms many of us take for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[11384,981],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87","tag-11384","tag-981"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-41Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}