Families & The Federal Budget

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

October 19, 2018

When the 2017 $1.9 trillion in tax cuts were enacted, many of us predicted that the hole in the budget caused by the lost revenue would be used by the Trump Administration and some in Congress to justify cuts in basic needs programs like Medicaid, Medicare, housing, and SNAP. And we were right.

Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget

October 12, 2018

Capitalism, for better or worse, is a race to the top where the starting gun only goes off once. As much as we may like to think that our economic circumstances are determined by our talent and hard work alone, there are hundreds of years of history that play a role in influencing the path our...

Stephen Prince

Families & The Federal Budget

October 11, 2018

Last year, Republicans unilaterally passed tax cuts that disproportionately benefited the wealthy and corporations. By giving tax cuts to wealthy Americans, particularly investors, Republicans claimed their tax bill would lead to substantial job and wage growth. Unsurprisingly, this has not...

Jacqueline Boberg

Families & The Federal Budget

October 10, 2018

In Trump’s latest efforts to enrich wealthy people like himself, his administration recently proposed indexing the capital gains tax rate to inflation. This change would give billions of dollars in tax cuts to wealthy investors, while giving no relief at all to the working class. Right now, the...

Morris Pearl

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

October 9, 2018

In order to ensure the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of December 2017 (TCJA), the GOP expanded a loophole to particularly benefit those who would vote on it: themselves. This includes deficit-hawk Senator Corker (TN), who had been undecided on breaking his promise to not add to the deficit...

Pierce Delahunt

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Politics & Policy

October 8, 2018

The Coalition on Human Needs just released another edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for the latest on the FY19 Labor-H bill and other FY19 spending, a proposed anti-immigrant rule, a bill to fight the opioid crisis, tax cuts 2.0, reactions to the Supreme Court confirmation, and more.

Lecia Imbery

We Are MomsRising!

Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising Near You

September 28, 2018

In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Nikki in Pennsylvania about raising little activists. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post . I started getting involved with activism around Proposition 8 in 2009. After the 2016...

Abbie Gately

We Are MomsRising!

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

September 22, 2018

In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Melissa in Pennsylvania about what it is like to find childcare. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post . As a single mom of a toddler who was starting over in a small town with...

Abbie Gately

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Maternal Justice

September 21, 2018

Happy Friday! We're back with this week's list of top actions, and it is robust. As fall and school kick into high gear, so does our work! From telling Congress *no* to more tax breaks for big corporations, to demanding banks stop funding for-profit prison and detention corporations, we've got work...

Karen Showalter

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

September 20, 2018

With everyone’s attention focused on the Supreme Court nomination and the upcoming elections, the U.S. House of Representatives is hoping to sneak through more destructive tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations! Good thing that moms have eyes in the backs of our heads! [1] And we won’t stand...