Families & The Federal Budget

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

February 25, 2021

We are at a turning point in the fight against the deadly COVID-19 virus. This week marked a heartbreaking milestone with 506,000 deaths in the United States from COVID-19. [1] So many of our families are hurting in so many different ways. But change is coming and we have a reason to feel hopeful...

Elyssa Schmier

Families & The Federal Budget

February 18, 2021

I don’t need to tell you that our families are struggling. Everything is harder in a pandemic—affording rent, paying our bills, putting food on the table, affording childcare, and trying to do our jobs. This is why we need real solutions that put real money in the pockets of struggling families...

Hanna Addis

Families & The Federal Budget Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

February 4, 2021

It’s go time!! The Biden Administration and the new Congress are getting to work on moving forward critically important policy changes -- and they need to hear from you. Important legislation regarding paid leave, voting rights, COVID-19 relief and more are currently being debated and voted on...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising

February 1, 2021

2021 has just begun and MomsRising is already hitting the ground running -- but first, we’re taking a moment to celebrate having the first Black, South Asian woman Vice President in the history of the United States! This is a moment to pause and recognize how far we’ve come to reach this long-...

Anita Sarah Jackson

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

January 31, 2021

We need your help this week. All of us have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. We’ve lost friends and loved ones, fought the illness ourselves, have struggled with the changing employment landscape, dealt with new roles at home and in so many other ways.

Sue Anne Reed

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

January 29, 2021

ICYMI: Hey Congress...GET TO WORK! That's the message MomsRising members have been sending to their elected officials this past week, demanding immediate boosts for COVID-19 assistance and more long-term transformative policy changes to help ALL of us thrive. Check out these three actions and...

Kerri Karvetski

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care MomsVote Politics & Policy

January 21, 2021

ICYMI: The moment has indeed arrived...President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are now officially in office! The MomsRising family honored, celebrated and leaned into this moment of real change with love and likes in our shared digital spaces. Check out the images and stories that got...

Kerri Karvetski

Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Health Care MomsRising MomsVote Podcast

January 21, 2021

We are back with a fresh show for a brand new year! Welcome 2021! This week on #BreakingThrough Kristin and guests cover white insurrectionism, the ties between white supremacy and gun violence, and analyze what happened at the U.S. Capitol and why we need still accountability; including for Trump...

Amber Dorsey

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Politics & Policy

January 21, 2021

As we celebrate President Biden and Vice President Harris being sworn in and the new Congress taking shape this week, your voice is needed on several important, urgent issues - including COVID-19 relief and signing on to the Moms Mandate that we will be sharing with the Biden administration and...

Sue Anne Reed

Families & The Federal Budget

January 19, 2021

“We not only have an economic imperative to act now, I believe we have a moral obligation. In this pandemic in America, we can not let people go hungry. We can not let people get evicted. We can not watch nurses, educators, and others lose their jobs, we so badly need them. We must act now and act...

Hanna Addis