Families & The Federal Budget

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

August 26, 2014

Too often, federal taxpayers are left to subsidize corporate profits through the important programs we have in place to ensure that families can meet their basic needs. Increasing the federal minimum wage helps low wage workers, infuses much-needed money into the economy, AND reduces the extent to which low-income workers must lean on the federal budget just to meet their basic needs. Surely it’s time to #RaiseTheWage, to show that #WEMatter!

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Douglas Hall

Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Politics & Policy

August 20, 2014

August is a prime time to tell your Congressperson your thoughts on the federal budget issues that matter to women, families, and children, including Iraq, immigration, corporate taxes, unemployment benefits, and more.

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Robin Claremont

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

August 2, 2014

The Ryan poverty plan will create more poverty, not less.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

August 2, 2014

Easy links to learn about Ryan's poverty plan - and the hard questions that must be asked about it.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

August 2, 2014

This week, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report about Social Security’s finances. As usual, opponents jumped all over it, sounding the alarm bells and calling for drastic cuts. But they got it all wrong: rather than cutting Social Security we need to expand it in ways that would benefit everyone, and particularly women, who rely on the program so much.

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Allegra Baider

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

July 23, 2014

Improvement. It’s a subjective word, I guess. Otherwise how does H.B. 4935 get to call itself the Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014? The House is set to vote on the bill this week , and although it sounds like a winner, for millions of low-income working families it is exactly the opposite...

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Susanna Birdsong

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

July 21, 2014

The White House Summit on working families was last month, but we’re still riding the high of the momentum and energy cultivated at such a groundbreaking event. The fact that our nation’s leaders dedicated an entire day to issues that MomsRising members have been working on since we were founded in 2006 is huge.

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Sara Alcid

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July 15, 2014

Putting faith over fact, 5 conservative Catholic men on the Supreme Court have opened a Pandora’s Box: your boss now gets to interfere with your birth control decisions. In its sharply divided 5-4 ruling in Hobby Lobby, SCOTUS ramps up the War on Women.

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Roberta Riley

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

July 11, 2014

This speaks to being a mom, to paid family leave and in general to the way we view "poor" people and our ideas of how that person should be defined.

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Sili Recio

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June 27, 2014

I never thought sending a Facebook “Friend Request” could impact me they way it did. One day on my Facebook wall, I noticed an organization called “DREAMers Moms”, so I sent them a friend request. I quickly received a response that they wanted me to come to a meeting in Miami, Florida. I was...

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