Cynthia Soto fro State Representative

Health Care

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Cynthia Is A Creative Leader In Health Care
- Organized partnerships to bring specialized dental clinics into our area for the disabled of all ages and a dental clinic program for women and children
- Helped pass ALLKIDS to provide access to health insurance for every child in the state under the KidCare program – a first in the nation
- Consistent work to expand health care including passage of a law that requires insurance companies to cover life-saving breast and cervical cancer screening
- Worked to secure crucial funding that prevented cuts to Medicaid

Creating Jobs

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Cynthia Knows Jobs Are A Priority, More So Than Ever In These Tough Economic Times

- Initiated an Innovative High Tech Job Training and Job Placement Center in the heart of the 4th District. A partnership of high tech companies and the City Colleges, this program benefits people in the community and community businesses – strengthens the whole community.
- Passed a $31 billion jobs program to help jumpstart the economy, put local residents back to work and bring needed transportation funding back to our district. Also, we’ll soon see local roads like North Avenue and Noble Street repaired and resurfaced.

Our Environment

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Cynthia Acts to Protect Our Environment
o   Soto knows we have only ONE Lake Michigan and we need to protect it.   Soto works to prevent companies from dumping toxins into Lake Michigan
o   Helped pass a law to address lake pollution levels and identify federal funds to improve the lake’s water quality
o   Soto supports the development of renewable energy sources like wind and solar to help make us more independent from foreign oil.
o   To help reduce the danger of children developing asthma, Soto helped to pass legislation to require large trucks to cut back on dangerous diesel emissions

Our Neighborhoods

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Cynthia Works to Help Save Our Homes and Neighborhoods

o   Passed the 7% yearly cap o property assessment increases in Chicago and is fighting to get it back
o   Passed better property tax breaks for seniors, disabled people and veterans
o   Passed a law to help protect homeowners from mortgage fraud
o   Passed several laws to crack down on predatory lending in Illinois
o   Continues to work to give the state new tools to go after lenders who commit fraud

Education

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:20:14 +0000

Cynthia Fights For Quality Education for Our Children
-Provided state funds for preschool for all children ages 3-5,
-Helped pass the largest K-12 school funding increase in Illinois history
-Supported funds for renovation and repairs of Chicago schools, sponsored bill to award 1,000 scholarships for students to become teachers
-Supported a bill to provide substantial funding for the renovation and repair of Chicago Schools.
-Worked to prevent massive budget cuts to education

Cynthia Leads by Example

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:17:33 +0000

Cynthia Has Her Priorities Straight and Leads by Example
- Protecting Families, Soto has worked to pass tough laws, cracking down on sex offenders, including requiring those convicted of crimes against children to wear electronic monitoring devices.
- Soto has two high quality constituent service offices in the district with dedicated staff helping people to resolve problems day in and day out.
- Soto has regularly organized a broad variety of community information and services events to provide information and direct services to seniors, youth, and families
- At a time when so many are out of work, Soto voted to cut her legislative pay, make it tougher for lawmakers to give themselves pay raises, and require lawmakers to take 12 unpaid furlough days to save state expenses.