State Strategies Director @SkillsCoalition. Working for equitable opportunity and economic mobility. Passionate about higher ed, workforce, and human svc policy
Portland, Oregon
Joined January 2020
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Kate Kinder retweeted
Absolutely devastating for college affordability, access, and success. They are playing a dangerous political game with people’s lives.
Kate Kinder retweeted
This morning, @uscensusbureau reports a 4.6 percentage point increase in poverty when measured with the supplemental poverty rate from 2021 to 2022 - in part a direct result of the expiration of pandemic-related supports. #CensusData
Kate Kinder retweeted
It's #HungerActionMonth, and nearly 100 partners in the @FeedingAmerica network are at the Capitol urging Congress to pass a strong #FarmBill. I support their efforts and look forward to a #FarmBill that works for families facing hunger! #FarmBillFlyIn
Kate Kinder retweeted
SNAP and SNAP E&T can decrease basic needs insecurity and increase college access and credential completion, leading to quality careers. Read more from @SkillsCoalition's @KateKinder2 and @Katie_SpikerNSC.
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Let’s face it and convince policymakers of it. Work requirements for #SNAP and #TANF limit low-income college students from earning the higher education they need to get a good job that pays an income high enough to support themselves and their families. hechingerreport.org/work-rul…
Kate Kinder retweeted
Going to college is WORK. But rules for public benefits don't see it that way—they boot people out for seeking a degree. These outdated restrictions in SNAP, TANF, and other programs sabotage workforce development and economic mobility. hechingerreport.org/work-rul…
Kate Kinder retweeted
Upcoming Farm Bill reauthorization is a chance to remove work requirements and #SNAP time limits, reduce hunger, increase access to high-quality #skillstraining, and improve community wellbeing. Stayed tuned for more info from @SkillsCoalition on the opportunity ahead! (3/3)
Kate Kinder retweeted
These workers need access to high-quality employment and training programs that lead to #goodjobs with better wages, not ineffective work requirements that perpetuate poverty and increase government red tape. (2/3)
Kate Kinder retweeted
As #SNAP time limits and calls for work requirements increase, it's important to remind policymakers that the majority of people accessing these benefits who are able to work do so. (Thread ⬇️)
The #COVID19 public health emergency officially ends today. @ashrafkhalil explains what that means for #Medicaid, #SNAP, and other parts of the social safety net that expanded during the pandemic.
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Kate Kinder retweeted
NEW: TICAS analysis on #SNAP details the overly complex and duplicative program eligibility requirements that force students to prove their need twice. #SNAPReimagined Learn more here: bit.ly/3FPAto6
Kate Kinder retweeted
We’ve been advocating for the JOBS Act for nearly a decade. It’s because we ought to invest in people who want to advance their career with high-quality, short-term skills training programs in the same way we invest in people seeking a two- or four-year degree.
Thank you @RepBillJohnson, @RepLBR, @RepMikeTurner, & @RepSherrill for introducing JOBS Act legislation today in the House. billjohnson.house.gov/news/d…
Why JOBS? ⬇️
Kate Kinder retweeted
From @INInstitute, "Employers need trained workers now. Helping adults access and persist in
post-secondary education and training has to be
a bigger part of the solution." Read the report: iiwfs.memberclicks.net/asset… @JessicaDFraser @INSkills2C
Kate Kinder retweeted
Our 2023 #HigherEd Policy predictions for the new Congress 🤞
✅ Allowing Pell to be used for short-term training programs
✅ A Satisfactory Academic Progress Reset
✅ More funding for campus mental health programs
✅ Bipartisan support for workforce training
Miss anything?
Kate Kinder retweeted
Pell Grant expansion and the College Transparency Act MUST be a priority for this Congress. Read more about these critical issues and other #HigherEd priorities via @Knott_Katherine @insidehighered: bit.ly/3OTa2RN
Kate Kinder retweeted
This year at our Skills in the States Forum (#SSF22), our key note speaker, @ClairMinson led us with an extraordinary speech about Racial Equity in the workforce! Check out her article here:
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Kate Kinder retweeted
More than 200 state policy advocates from 34 states convened in NoLa last week to lead the national conversation on state skills policy and coalition building. We hope you left as inspired as we did!
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#equity #partnerships #wkdev #skillstraining #policy
Kate Kinder retweeted
shoutout to the @SkillsCoalition #SSF22 speakers. rarely hear acknowledgement of root issues in US in traditional workforce dev spaces - like “The first workforce development system in America was slavery” or the origins of obsession w/ productivity from plantation systems👏🏻👏🏻
Kate Kinder retweeted
We have to work on all four layers of racism at the same time. #SSF22 Clair Minson keynote
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“If programs are working, why are systems still broken?” - #SSF22 panelist @kenyattalovett @EducateTexas