During 2012, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry-NM will support public policies in the following categories:
 
Affordable Housing & Homelessness
     Programs that assist children & adults experiencing homelessness
    
Family-Sustaining Income
     Restoration of funding cuts made to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program
     Restoration of cuts made to child care assistance & quality early childhood programs
    
Health Care
     Effective implementation of federal health care reform in New Mexico
     Maintaining Medicaid coverage & benefits for low-income children & adults
 
Hunger
     Increased enrollment in nutrition assistance programs
     Restoration of funding for the state Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
     Efforts to close New Mexico’s food gap & funding for food banks
     Maintaining the state Elementary School Breakfast program
 
Tax Policy
     Tax policy that is fair and provides stable, necessary & adequate revenue to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in our state
     Effective oversight & review of state tax credits, exemptions & incentives
 
Immigration
     Comprehensive immigration reform advocated by the Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service