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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: Friday, May 26, 2023

May 25, 2023
SIGN NOW to protect WIC! WIC is getting attacked from all angles. The House Republican budget not only holds our families hostage by calling for across-the-board cuts to programs like WIC in order to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default in the next two weeks, they also want to gut fruit and...
MomsRising Together
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Sue Anne Reed
Family Economic Security Food!

A moral outrage: Less food, rising prices, potential budget default!

May 11, 2023
Have you recently left the grocery store wondering how anyone can afford food? Me too. The truth is not many people can. The rising cost of food is making it difficult for moms, grandparents, and families to put food on the table. And worse still, many families who rely on the Supplemental...
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Joy Ikekhua
Families & The Federal Budget

TAKE ACTION to stop the GOP from defaulting on our families!

May 11, 2023
Breaking news! We are an estimated 22 days away from the GOP-created debt ceiling crisis becoming a world-wide problem. [1] If Congress doesn’t take immediate action to raise the debt ceiling, like Trump did three times on his watch [2], we will– for the first time in history – default, leading to...
MomsRising Together
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Elyssa Schmier
Childcare & Early Education

What NH moms need in the state budget!

May 10, 2023
It’s go time in the New Hampshire legislature! Thanks to all your advocacy, we’ve seen some huge wins so far this year – and we need your help again! Let’s keep that MOMentum going as the Senate Finance committee works on the state budget. → Send a quick email to the Senate Finance committee asking...
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MacKenzie Nicholson
Family Economic Security Food!

Show support for free school meals for all in NC!

April 27, 2023
MomsRising members are on-the-ground right now at the NC General Assembly urging our state lawmakers to include funding for school meals for all in the budget this legislative session. Will you back us up? → Can you back us up by sending your lawmaker a note right now? Our message urging lawmakers...
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Jessica Burroughs
Maternal Justice

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week Reminds Us That Our Stories Matter

May 1, 2023
It is often the stories that we don’t share that are amongst the most important ones. I know that after I gave birth to my son 21 years ago no one knew that I was hardly eating and regularly crying both in private and in public. It was only years later that I felt comfortable sharing that with...
MomsRising Education Fund
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Gina Arias