#MoLeg 🧵

Today, I was contacted because there are no foster placements to put some of Missouri's children who were taken out of the home due to abuse and/or neglect. For the past few months, when no beds are available, our hospitals have stepped in...

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putting children in hospital rooms until a foster home opens. Now, due to 📈 rates of COVID, that is no longer an option. Our residential homes are on lockdown and quarantining. So tonight, some Children's Division employees are going to stay the night in their offices
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...with these kids to keep them safe. In their offices. Away from their own families.

Do y'all remember when the Governor cut 85 Children's Division workers?

Do you remember when the legislature tried to give pay raises and additional funds for staffing?
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How about when the Gov.'s Department Head said they didn't need it, despite the pleas the workers gave us, asking for help?

Well Parson then vetoed the $2 million that we gave anyway, saying that all state employees raises should be equitable. So he took those raises away.
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But Gov. Parson had no issues with giving raises to his own staff...

The state of Missouri has TWO BILLION DOLLARS in excess money and Parson chose to cut pay raises for these heroes working till there is nothing left to protect our kids.

There has to be changes made.
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12 Mar 20
"It's important that Missourians and folks around the whole country are not in a state of panic. In terms of our state legislature, we need to start... being more proactive."
HOUSE DEM CAUCUS COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS POLICY RESPONSE
-- Request the governor call a state of emergency under Article IV, Section 27a, so that the General Assembly can access the Budget Reserve Fund to for the emergency resources necessary to respond to this public health crisis
-- Provide funding to reimburse medical providers for treatment provided to non-insured individuals over the next month
-- Provide additional funding to county health departments
-- Authorize mandatory paid sick leave for companies with 50 or more employees, with 6mo sunset
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