Previous NH Ads

On Monday, May 9th, Vote Kids began running the following ad in New Hampshire.

The Vote Kids television ad will be airing throughout New Hampshire beginning Monday, May 9 through Friday, May 13.

Vote Kids want to bring attention to how children will be harmed as a result of federal budget proposals which already have passed the House of Representatives. The so-called Ryan budget slashes programs vital to children and families, including Head Start, child care, public safety, child nutrition, education, Pell Grants, Community and Development Block Grants, and jobs programs. These are shortsighted actions that would weaken America’s global economic competitiveness, which is why we want kids’ issues to be a prominent part of the debate in the forthcoming presidential campaign.

The Ryan Budget would convert Medicaid into block grants and result in $1.4 trillion in cuts, while doing nothing to reduce health care costs. These cuts would affect the 30 million children nationwide served by Medicaid. It also would cut the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program by $127 billion, or 20 percent, over the next ten years. Millions of families would be affected, leading to increased hunger and poverty.

While cutting health care and nutrition programs for working families and children, the Ryan Budget gives those Americans earning more than $1 million an additional $125,000 yearly tax break.

When the Republican presidential candidates and President Obama come through these states campaigning, we want voters to ask them where they stand on investing in the health, education, and safety of children. No candidate should be allowed to avoid spelling out a detailed platform of what they are FOR when it comes to children.

Previous 2011 Ad

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The budget cuts passed by the United States House of Representatives will significantly harm children and families. Specifically in New Hampshire:

• 416 young children will be removed from their Head Start program
• Disadvantaged children would lose $3.3 million in education programs serving them
• 12,000 of New Hampshire’s college students would face cuts in their Pell Grants, $21 million total, causing many to leave college
• Pregnant women would be denied health care through the Maternal and Child Health block grant
• Programs to help children, youth, and parents struggling with substance abuse and mental health issues would be slashed by $871,000
• Doors to 21^st Century Community Learning Centers would close to hundreds of New Hampshire’s children and youth

Click here to email Jeanne Shaheen’s office and tell her to stand up for New Hampshire’s children and vote against the House budget cuts for children. If you can’t email her, call her office:  Washington, DC: (202) 224-2841 Manchester, NH: (603) 647-7500 Claremont, NH: (603) 542-4872 Nashua, NH: (603) 883-0196 Dover, NH: (603) 750-3004 Berlin, NH: (603) 752-6300

Click here to email Kelly Ayotte’s office and tell her to stand up for New Hampshire’s children and vote against the House budget cuts for children. If you can’t email her, call her office:  Washington, DC: (202) 224-3324 Manchester, NH: (603) 622-7979