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The People’s Budget Campaign: Toward Spending and Revenue Policies based on Human Rights

Author(s)
NESRI/Vermont Workers' Center
Publication Date
May, 2012
Description

In the 2012 legislative session, the Vermont state legislature took an unprecedented step by adding language to the Vermont statute that moves the state toward budget and revenue policies grounded in human rights. Adopting a key demand of the People's Budget Campaign, run by the Vermont Workers' Center in collaboration with NESRI, Vermont's budget is now mandated "to address the needs of the people of Vermont in a way that advances human dignity and equity."

Download our summary presentation about the first legislative achievements of the People's Budget Campaign below.

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