Under The Dome with Empower Missouri
A weekly podcast from Empower Missouri designed to quickly catch you up on anti-poverty actions happening in the Missouri state legislature.
Episodes
Welcome to Under the Dome, your update from Empower Missouri about what is happening in Jefferson City with a particular focus on our anti-poverty agenda.
This week we wrap up the last two weeks of the legislative session, otherwise know as: Fillibuster Alley. A session for the record books, and not really in the ways we’d hoped. And Mallory owes Sarah a candy bar!
Join us in this episode of "Under the Dome" as we delve into the multitude of happenings in Jefferson City, which this week was nothing.
We explore the recent 41-hour filibuster in Missouri state government, its fatigue-inducing consequences, and its considerable impact on legislative agendas. This episode highlights the fact that the extended debate time did not meet its intended goals and primarily served as internal entertainmen...
Join Sarah Owsley, and Affordable Housing Policy Manager Vee Sanchez, as we candidly unpack a spectrum of issues - from housing and legal system reform to food security.
Our experts delve into the intricacies of SB 895, a harmful bill that may hinder the local municipal government's responsive measures during emergencies. The conversation broadens to include proposed amendments in the House, source of income discrimination and the ...
Discover the complexities of legislative adjustments in the state of Missouri with "Under the Dome" - a podcast presented by Empower Missouri. In this engaging episode, we emphasize our anti-poverty agenda and highlight our unyielding efforts in advocating for diverse coalitions. Join us as we deep-dive into SB 727, a recently passed education bill with implications on teacher salaries, charter schools, and virtual learning conditi...
Join us on Under the Dome, the insightful podcast from Empower Missouri, where we share our century-long pursuit of fostering evidence-based public policies aimed at ending poverty. In this episode, our Advocacy Director Sarah Owsley, Criminal Justice Policy Manager Gwen Smith-Moore, and Affordable Housing Policy Manager Misha Smith share about the week before in Jefferson City.
Gwen shares her experiences in the audience of the fi...
Welcome to the latest episode of Under the Dome, a podcast produced by Empower Missouri. We provide you with timely updates about our activities in Jefferson City, particularly focusing on our commitment to anti-poverty work. In this episode, Sarah Owsley, our Advocacy Director, is joined by Christine Woody, the Food Security Policy Manager at Empower Missouri. An unexpected technical glitch resulted in difficulties with the audio ...
Welcome to the 'Under the Dome' podcast, a platform dedicated to fighting against poverty in Missouri. In this week's episode, Empower Missouri Advocacy Director, Sarah Owsley, Mallory Rusch, Executive Director, and our Community Justice Policy Intern, Eric Reiter, take you on a journey through a week filled with action, advocacy, and legislative change. The week we took over 100 advocates into the Capitol, many for their first tim...
In this podcast episode, we get a glimpse into the Day of Action held by Empower Missouri, aimed at addressing poverty and its affiliated state policies impacting Missourians. Advocacy leaders, elected officials, and individuals affected by poverty come together in Jefferson City to discuss and strategize the dissolution of poverty-inducing policies.
The episode begins with an incisive assessment of state poverty statistics by Mall...
Welcome to an insightful episode of "Under the Dome", the podcast from Empower Missouri that focuses on our anti-poverty agenda. In this episode, we discuss our efforts to influence public policy development with evidence, aiming to tackle poverty in Missouri. Featured guests include Gwen Smith-Moore, our Criminal Justice Policy Manager, and Sarah Owsley, our Advocacy Director. They share their experiences attending lobby days at t...
Empower Missouri supported several of our partners in the Capital this week, testified on two bills from our Food Security agenda, and had a pop quiz!
A week of movement on several omnibus criminal justice bills, our least favorite TANF bill, and an invitation to join us or our partners in Jefferson City. Also: Send us your questions (about policy, poverty, advocacy, or anything else) and we will answer them in an upcoming podcast!
Another criminal justice heavy week where Empower Missouri didn't have any grown ups in the Capital. Also: Initiative Petition attacks, improving 911, and how to treat people like they belong here.
A special double episode as our staff emerges from our individual illnesses to catch you up on the happenings in Jefferson City. We testified in a very long immigration hearing, poor Missourians still deserve to hear, and land banks are the policy solution to two very visible problems we drive by everyday.
We had tons of fun in the Missouri state legislature this week. We joined hundreds of fellow advocates testifying against Initiative Petition changes, for the Senate to advance it anyway. Gwen testified in support of a bill that would end the practice of shackling youth and pregnant people while also opting Missouri out of the federal SNAP ban for people with drug felonies. And Trina learned some of the hardest parts of housing org...
Gwen Smith-Moore joins us this week to discuss a wild week with several criminal legal reform hearings. And Sarah gets to say 'swamp creatures' on the podcast! Fun week with many moving parts and some distractions.
Our first podcast of 2024 and we had a BUSY week. Criminal Justice and Housing priorities both had hearings, including 2024's first marathon hearing that left Mallory in need of a snack and some water. And- welcome Trina Ragain to the team! We all survived and we're glad to be back catching you up on the goings-on in Jefferson City.
A quick run down for Criminal Justice and Food security language we helped get across the finish line. Transitional benefits, crack sentencing disparity, IP reform, and more.
Too fast to keep up with and also somehow, at a complete standstill- this was filibuster week in the Missouri state legislature. Join us to talk about the status of key criminal justice reforms, medicaid for postpartum mothers, the benefits cliff, and the cliff we all may fall off of without a final budget.
Just a few weeks left in Missouri's legislative session and the Christmas Tree omnibus bills have emerged in full force. Land banks, time served, initiative petitions reforms, and 20 clean budget bills await us...
This week Holly leads us through the movement of many food security priorities, growing criminal justice bills, and an update on postpartum Medicaid.
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