Food Lifeline Endorses Campaign to Maintain Washington’s Capital Gains Tax
Tax policy plays a key role in the level of economic justice and wellbeing that people experience. It also determines the level of funding available for community investment. As such, it is important to advance tax code that creates the racial and economic justice and community investments necessary to end hunger.
Food Lifeline supported legislation in 2021 creating the capital gains tax and directing its proceeds to the state’s Education Legacy Trust Account. Washington families struggling with food insecurity and low-income benefit from community investment, especially, as the Education Legacy Trust does, in expanding affordable childcare and early education, special education for students with disabilities, technical and community colleges, and repairing and replacing schools.
To continue this progress, Food Lifeline is endorsing No on 2109 (no2109.com), the campaign to protect the state’s existing capital gains tax by defeating the I-2109 referendum on this November’s ballot.
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Food Lifeline is on a mission to end hunger in Western Washington. We firmly believe that access to food is a human right and that no one should go hungry. We know poverty, racial inequity, and social injustice have long fostered and perpetuated systems that reward some while leaving whole communities behind. Food Lifeline resolves to dismantle these systems while promoting policies and practices designed to lift people out of poverty and enabling all members of our society to thrive.
Through grassroots advocacy, we work to shape local, state, and federal policy; we partner with organizations that are addressing poverty; and we’re building a movement to end hunger through community engagement and mobilization.
To solve hunger today, Food Lifeline provides fresh, nutritious food and pantry staples to hundreds of thousands of people facing hunger every year by sourcing donations from food industry partners, contracts with government food assistance programs, working with farms, and purchasing traditional, and culturally relevant foods. We distribute this food through a partnership with 300 food banks, shelters, and meal programs, enabling us to provide the equivalent of 164,480 meals every day to foster healthy communities.