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#GoodNews This Week: Moving the Needle on Taxes & Medicaid!

April 19, 2019
We are powerful! Don't miss some great wins and stories from this last week at MomsRising. We celebrate Black Maternal Health Week, publishing and delivering our own Medicaid stories, and standing up for working families' tax credits!
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Anita Sarah Jackson
Health Care

Medicaid Helps Families Weather the Storm (Storybook)

April 15, 2019
Medicaid helps families weather the storm during times of need—whether it be during a health care crisis or a time of financial hardship. But in North Carolina, lawmakers have yet to make this critical and often life-saving program available to about half a million low-income uninsured adults. That...
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Felicia Burnett
Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

Washington Legislature: The Working Families Tax Credit is a gender and racial justice issue!

April 15, 2019
MomsRising, together with the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, organized the following sign-on letter for gender justice organizations in support of the Working Families Tax Credit. You can take action in support of the Working Families Tax Credit by sending your state...
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Maggie Humphreys
Red Alert!
MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages

QUICK SIGNATURE: WA Legislators need to hear from YOU!

April 18, 2019
It's coming down to the wire for the Working Families Tax Credit and the Washington State Legislature needs to hear from you. With just two weeks left, time is running out to keep the Working Families Tax Credit part of the conversation in budget negotiations. Click here to send a quick email to...
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Maggie Humphreys
Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

I want to thank you this Tax Day!

April 15, 2019
Today is Tax Day! Feeling less than inspired by this? That’s because the billionaires and big corporations, not people like you and me, are reaping the benefits of the Trump Tax Scam. That’s why we need to use the media moment of Tax Day to send more letters to the editor this week in your local...
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Elyssa Koidin Schmier
Maternal Justice

MoMMA’s Voices offers opportunities to drive real change in maternal health

April 15, 2019
Speak up, even if your voice is shaking!
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S. Nadia Hussain
Send a strong message this Tax Day!
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

Can you write a letter to speak out against the Trump Tax Scam?

April 12, 2019
The only people who are happy right now during tax season are the corporations and the top 1%, who received an average tax cut of $51,000 last year alone, who are getting a windfall from the Trump Tax Plan . Tax Day is this coming Monday (April 15th) and we have one major message that we want to...
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Abbie Gately
Sign up: Statewide day of action to expand Medicaid!
Health Care

Quick Action: Statewide day of action to expand Medicaid!

April 11, 2019
Medicaid helps families weather the storm during times of need—whether it be during a health care crisis or a time of financial hardship. But in North Carolina, our lawmakers have yet to make this critical and often life-saving program available to about half a million low-income uninsured adults...
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Felicia Burnett