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The Grassroots Institute
2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign
Check out Better Wyoming’s 2025 Grassroots Accountability Reports, which track how your own local lawmakers voted during the legislative session on important issues like healthcare, education, and taxes to find out.
Learn whether their votes represent your values on issues that impact us all.
What We’re Up To
Statewide Accountability Report #1: Jan. 14 – 24
In the first two weeks of the Wyoming Legislature’s 2025 session, the House prioritized Freedom Caucus bills over the normal functions of government, advancing do-nothing policies on hot-button social issues instead of addressing actual problems that impact our lives and communities.
Read MoreThree ways YOU can get involved for the 2025 legislative session
The 2025 legislative session is just around the corner. Here are three concrete things you can do to get involved with Better Wyoming for the session.
Read MoreMake your voting plan
Better Wyoming wants YOU to vote in both elections, all the way “down the ballot” in local races. Making a vote plan helps ensure that voting isn’t a task you forget until it’s too late.
Read MoreReporting and Commentary
“INTERIM” SPOTLIGHT: MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR MATERNAL HEALTHCARE
One-third of babies delivered in Wyoming are to moms on Medicaid. But Medicaid pays healthcare providers low rates, because state lawmakers have failed to increase them to keep pace with costs. This means that fewer maternal health providers operate in Wyoming, creating huge “maternity care deserts” where no help is available.
Read MoreProgram Assists With Hearing Aids
The Wyoming Department of Health has a new program to help you and is taking applications until Sept. 30.
Read More“INTERIM” SPOTLIGHT: K-12 MENTAL HEALTH
Youth mental health issues are on the rise, but the Legislature does not allocate money to fully staff schools with counselors. A judge has ruled that the state must fund mental health professionals for schools, but the Freedom Caucus is looking for ways to defund public education instead.
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