Learn more about what is at stake in the “Super Committee” and the federal deficit-reduction deal for children, families, seniors and people with disabilities in Ohio. Leading statewide advocates will discuss how we work to maintain vital programs, such as SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare. Advocates for Ohio’s Future and our partners are also gearing up for a statewide “call-in day” on Wednesday, Sept 28 to Senator Portman’s offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, and D.C. to make sure the Super Committee’s deficit-reduction plan does not increase poverty or income inequality. You’ll hear from: * Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, Executive Director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks Luke Russell, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP Ohio Cathy Levine, Executive Director of UHCAN Ohio and Co-Chair of Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage Deborah Nebel, Director of Public Policy, Linking Employment, Ability, and Potential Wendy Patton, Senior Associate with Policy Matters Ohio Will Petrik, Outreach Director with Advocates for Ohio’s Future

1. Federal Deficit Reduction Deal. What’s at stake for Ohioans in Need? Featuring: Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, Executive Director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks Luke Russell, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP Ohio Cathy Levine, Executive Director, UHCAN Ohio, Co-Chair of Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage Deborah Nebel, Director of Public Policy, Linking Employment, Ability, and Potential Wendy Patton, Senior Associate, Policy Matters Ohio (PMO)

2. www.oashf.org Lisa Hamler-Fugitt Executive Director  lisa@oashf.org 614.221.4336, ext. 222 Ohio Association of second harvest foodbanksThe Super Committee: What's at stake for Ohioans in need? September 27, 2011

4. This represents an increase of 58.9% in the number of clients served from 2006 to 2011.

5. American Community Survey results released 9/22/11 found that statewide 15.8% of Ohioans (1,779,032) had incomes below the federal poverty level in 2010 an increase of 21.5% since 2007.

6. Ohio is 6th in the nation for high hunger rates (16.4%). (USDA Food Security in US, 2010 released September 2011)

7. Still hungry:

8. 52% of households that receive SNAP

9. 48% of households that receive free and reduced price school meals

10. 46% of households that receive WIC

12. Other threats: Possible fundamental changes to programs should as those proposed in Senator Coburn’s “Back in Black” that would:

13. Terminate “categorical eligibility,” which allows individuals to automatically qualify for food stamps if they are enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program or certain other assistance programs.

14. Reduce funding for USDA’s domestic nutrition assistance ($17 billion FY 2010 enacted by 10 percent to save $18.7 billion over ten years. GAO recently studied 18 of the 70 identified federal hunger programs. Of these 18, only 7 were found to have sufficient reported data to assess their overall effectiveness. However, little is known about the effectiveness of the remaining 11 programs, because they have never been well studied. Only two of the 11 programs had been studied at all.Get engaged – we need to be proactive! Post your recommendations on Senator Portman’s website http://portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/reduce-the-deficit Read reports submitted to the Joint Select Committee, including Senator Ron Johnsons, $1.4 Trillion in Savings http://ronjohnson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=b61bc3d5-a0e9-4d48-ba25-17d4b1f238b6 U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) report “Back in Black” that outlines how the federal government can reduce the deficit by $9 trillion over the next ten years and balance the federal budget. The 614-page plan was the result of a thorough and exhaustive review of thousands of federal programs. http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=c6590d01-017a-47b0-a15c-1336220ea7bf

16. These cuts would take effect in January 2013 assuming no cuts or revenue increases were enacted by the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, approximately 9% annual cut in affected non-security programs, along with roughly a 9% cut in defense programs.

17. Fortunately, low income entitlement programs, such as the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Child Nutrition Programs (with the exception of special milk programs), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

19. Ohio has a powerful congressional delegation Republican Study Commission CHAIR: Jim Jordan (R-04) Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Rob Portman (R) Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-08) House Agriculture Committee Marcia Fudge (D-11) Jean Schmidt (R-02): CHAIR, Nutrition & Horticulture Subcommittee Senate Agriculture Committee Sherrod Brown (D): Nutrition Subcommittee CHAIR, Jobs, Rural Economic Growth & Energy Innovation Subcommittee House Appropriations Committee Marcy Kaptur (D-09): Agriculture Subcommittee, Transportation & HUD Subcommittee Senate Appropriations Committee Sherrod Brown (D): Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Subcommittee House Budget Committee Tim Ryan (D-17) Marcy Kaptur (D-09): CHAIR, Nutrition & Horticulture House Education & Workforce Committee Dennis Kucinich (D-10): Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Subcommittee Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee Sherrod Brown (D): Housing, Transportation, and Community Development Subcommittee House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Michael Turner (R-03) Dennis Kucinich (D-10) Jim Jordan (D-04): CHAIR, Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight & Government Reform Subcommittee Senate Budget Committee Rob Portman (R) House Ways & Means Committee Pat Tiberi (R-12) CHAIR, Subcommittee on Select Revenue House Energy & Commerce Committee Bob Latta (R-05): Health Subcommittee

20. Protect Medicare & Social Security from Harmful Benefit Cuts Luke Russell, Associate State Director of Advocacy AARP Ohio

21. AARP’s Position: Today’s seniors and future generations have earned their benefits through a lifetime of hard work. We should be strengthening Medicare and Social Security, not slashing their budgets and putting future generations’ retirement security in jeopardy.

22. AARP’s Position: AARP is fighting to stop Congress from making a political deal that cuts Medicare and Social Security benefits. Instead of cutting the benefits 50+ members worked for, Congress should reduce the deficit by cutting waste and close tax loopholes.

26. Calls to Members of Congress (including robo-calls)

27. Sign our Petition

28. Share Your Story - Cuts to Social Security and Medicare (Call in Testimonies)

29. Meetings with Key Members of Congress

30. Facebook and Twitter

33. Congress must pass the recommendations and the President must sign or else…

36. Raise Medicare cost-sharing (in the original “grand bargain”)

37. Means-test Medicare premiums

39. “Blended Medicaid Match Rate - reduce 100% federal match for newly eligible Medicaid recipients to a weighted rate for all Medicaid beneficiaries

40. Amounts to de facto block grant – would require cuts

41. Shifts costs to states

44. But, these savings will not raise $1.5 – we must balance cuts and savings with revenues.

48. Subsidized Housing (rental vouchers)

49. Older Americans Act Services (persons with disabilities 60+) & Independent Living Services (persons with disabilities all ages)

51. Medicare

53. Youth (14-21 with barriers such as disability, used by LEAP to fund our school to work transition programs)

54. “My Medicaid Matters” Message To Senator Portman Ohio’s Endorsing Sponsors included the following AOF endorsers: The Arc of Great Cleveland, The Arc of Ohio, Center for Independent Living Options, Easter Seals, Linking Employment, Abilities & Potential, Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage, Ohio Provider Resource Association, Ohio Olmstead Task Force, Public Children Services Association of Ohio, Tri-County Independent Living Center, Inc., and the Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio.

55. “My Medicaid Matters” Message To Senator Portman We are calling for “real reform” of Medicaid, instead of arbitrary cuts or shifting costs onto the states.

57. De-medicalizing Services

58. Expanding Consumer Directed Service Options

60. Policy Matters Ohio Instructions for the Super Committee: a balanced approach to debt reduction That does not increase poverty or inequality Wendy Patton (614)221-4505 wpatton@policymattersohio.org www.policymattersohio.org

61. Federal revenue & spending as % of GDP, 1940 - present Source: Policy Matters Ohio, based on Office of the Budget Historical Tables, Table 1.3— Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-) in Current Dollars, Constant (FY 2005) Dollars, and as Percentages of GDP: 1940–2016

62. cbpp.org 9/27/2011 32

63. cbpp.org 9/27/2011 33

64. Options to raise revenues over time 1. Enact a financial speculation tax Up to $1.3trillion[1] 2. Repeal the (upper income) Bush tax cuts $629 billion[2] 3. Tax capital gains and dividends like income Up to $950 billion[3] 4. Enact a wealth surtax Up to $748 billion[4] 5. Return the estate tax to 2001 levels $280 billion[5] 6. Limit Home Mortgage Interest Deduction to primary residence $12 billion[6] [1]Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits, and America’s Economic Future, Institute for America’s Future, pg. 26 [2]Investing in America’s Economy, Our Fiscal Future, pg. 35 [3]The Responsible Path Towards Investing in America, Congressional Black Caucus, pg. 2 [4]The First Step, Center for American Progress, pg. 16 [5]The People’s Budget, Congressional Progressive Caucus, pg. 9 [6]Investing in America’s Economy, Our Fiscal Future, pg. 33 Source: OMB Watch

65. Options to raise revenues (continued) 7. Enact a financial crisis responsibility fee (.15% of financial institution’s liabilities for entities over $50 billion) $90 billion[7] 8. Eliminate the deferral of income from US controlled foreign subsidiary corporations (tax US corporate foreign income as it is earned) $114 billion[8] 9. Eliminate itemized deductions for those making over $200,000 a year $410 billion[9] 10. Enact a carbon tax/ cap & trade tax Up to $846 billion[10] 11. Raise the gas tax Up to $600 billion[11] [7]Investing in America’s Economy, Our Fiscal Future, pg. 40 [8]Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options, March 2011, Congressional Budget Office, pg. 186 [9]Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future: The President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction, Office of Management and Budget, pg. 47 [10]Investing in America’s Economy, Our Fiscal Future, pg. 38 [11]Investing in America’s Economy, Our Fiscal Future, pg. 42 Source: OMB Watch

66. Percentage change in after-tax income by income grouping, 1979-2007

67. Share of income growth captured by top 1% compared to bottom 90%

69. Federal receipts as % of GDP

70. 9/27/2011 40 cbpp.org

71. Critical principles for the Super Committee Take a balanced approach to debt reduction: Balance the $900 billion already cut with revenues. 2) Do no harm: Do not make poverty worse or inequality deeper

73. Review and use our resources: http://www.advocatesforohio.org/resources

74. HHS news and Information:

75. Like us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/advocatesforohio

78. Another to his Ohio district office closest to youColumbus Office, 614-469-6774 Cincinnati Office, 513-684-3265 Cleveland Office, 216-522-7095 Toledo Office, 419-259-3895

80. If you’re an Executive Director, forward it to your staff

81. If you’re a community activist, forward it to your 10 closest colleagues

82. If you’re a student, forward it to 5 of your classmates

83. Use Social Media!