Friends of Preschool For All

Join us to defend Preschool for All from shady backroom dealings! Friendsofpfa.org ✨

🩷🤍💚👀💛❤️🩵 Do you love our caregivers too? 💛❤️💜👀🧡💚🩷 actionnetwork.org/petitions/full…

💛❤️💜🧡🩵💚🤍🩷 A great preschool system is built by well-paid and well-trained workers. We are proud that Preschool For All is raising the caregiving wage! 💛❤️💜🧡🩵💚🤍🩷

💛It's time to step up and SIGN NOW to say YES to fully funding our voter-approved program! actionnetwork.org/petitions/full…

Multnomah County is on track towards a full rollout of free preschool for every kid, with good pay for every teacher. No income or immigration status checks! All abilities, home languages, and workday schedules welcome! #LetsGrowMultnomahCounty #PreschoolforAll

Today is the start of something BIG. Sign our new petition to show your ❤️ for Preschool For All! actionnetwork.org/petitions/fu... And follow us for ✨Story Time✨ where big dreams are becoming reality in neighborhoods all over town. #LetsGrowMultnomahCounty #PreschoolforAll

or we can read endless ww pieces about the "doom loop" for the rest of our lives like here in portland

This program could be gone if we don’t take a stand. Let’s tell Kotek once and for all: HANDS OFF PRESCHOOL FOR ALL!✊🪧💛

📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/protest…

after we won universal pre-k in our area by taxing the rich, my co-lead made a visualization of how much cash (in $20s) we had just redistributed if it were all stacked and brought into our dsa general meeting ✨

YES! This is how to do it. “The average annual family savings are estimated at $12,000 per child.”💛

Over the past month, our coalition and our community came together to say, NO CUTS, NO COMPROMISES. Thank you for every email, phonecall, public comment, and PB&J assembly line for toddlers at evening meetings. Together, we won Preschool for All- AGAIN! The tax cuts are paused!

Live shot of Andrew Hoan from Portland Metro Chamber as the Multnomah County Board begins debating cuts to Preschool for All

Good morning, team toddler! It's the last day to submit written comments to stop the Multnomah County Commissioners from mucking up Preschool for All. They're considering cutting the taxes, which will lead to cuts in the program. Tell them no to indexing! multco.us/info/public-te…

THIS Wednesday, a week before the public hearing, we're hosting a ✨Town Hall✨ together with a bunch of great organizations! We'll get the scoop on the program from people in the know, and help each other prep our testimony stories! And eat pizza :) COME ON THRU!

,✨Team Toddler - huddle up!✨ You can sign up NOW to speak to the County Commission on the evening of Wednesday, August 20th here! multco.us/info/public-te… Tell them HANDS OFF PRESCHOOL FOR ALL! (Need help prepping? Read on!)

Take action NOW to save Preschool for All! Link in next or our bio

@SMeieran Your post is misleading/inaccurate. For anyone interested in real data and analysis about our local economy, read this @StreetRoots piece. streetroots.org/news/2025/07/3…

I generally appreciate attempts to bring outside experts into government conversations, because it’s generally good for politicians to have someone around who understands the issues at hand. In this instance, however, the effort to bring in a professor from Cornell to talk about real world problems in Multnomah County was misguided at best, and led to dangerously misleading conclusions at worst. Commissioner Moyer’s Cornell expert said nothing whatsoever about Multnomah County or Portland, let alone “cold, hard data”. He mentioned a nationwide academic study showing little direct correlation between wealth mobility and small fluctuations in tax rates, which isn’t at all surprising. We know people are willing to pay a premium for quality of life. Manhattan is a prime example, with population growth despite some of the highest taxes in the nation. The more relevant question is what happens when taxes are sky high while quality of life has eroded? In Portland, this is not an academic question that requires an opinion based on theory, but a real-life question that has been emphatically answered by cold, hard data. ECONorthwest just looked at our local data and found that high-income earners have in fact left the region, taking with them over $2 billion in personal income in 2022 and 2023 alone. That’s the equivalent of 1000 millionaires leaving the region per year, if you want to put things in terms of millionaires. And it’s not just the wealthy who are leaving. As most other urban cores across the country are seeing population growth, Portland is one of only a few major cities showing net out-migration. Although underneath that trend, some people do continue to move in, those coming in are often looking for jobs that yet another study has shown don’t exist, as downtown non-occupancy rates reach 30%, corresponding to a missing 30,000 jobs. Meanwhile, a larger number of people who have lived in the region for years - who have spent their careers here and have homes and raised their children here - are leaving. With them go more than their tax dollars - we are losing community members, well-rooted neighbors and a ton of social and creative capital. This is the story of a county in decline. Commissioner Moyer’s expert, and the WW article extolling the expert’s irrelevant presentation while neglecting the real data, just led people to believe that there isn’t a glaring problem with Multnomah County losing its tax base as it drives long-term residents away. I hope that there is more open and frank conversation about this topic that leads to urgency and action, because the facts should be deeply troubling to anyone who calls this region home. wweek.com/news/2025/08/0…

Tell the Multnomah County Commissioners Hands Off Preschool for All! Vote no on indexing the tax and forcing cuts to the program. actionnetwork.org/letters/vote-n…

RSVP to our Hands Off Preschool for All Town Hall: secure.everyaction.com/M_6ro0EhLE2WZ0…