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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

The federal budget campaign champions the priorities of women, moms, and families in the federal budget. This campaign includes work on taxes/revenues, SNAP, WIC, Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid, CHIP, healthy school lunches, and more.

People are often surprised to hear that even a physician can end up on Medicaid...but I’m a great example that it can happen to anyone. I’m 32 years old, married, with two small children and I am a family physician. In January of this year, right at the beginning of a new plan year and new...Read more
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Families & The Federal Budget

SIGN OUR LETTER: Repeal tax cuts for 1% and Wall Street!

06/20/18
Today we are marking the six month anniversary of the passage of the disastrous Trump-GOP Tax Plan. Who have the winners been? Millionaires, billionaires, and mega-corporations. Who have the losers been? Me, you, America’s working families, and our economy. But it doesn’t have to be this way! The...
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Tell Gov. Snyder: VETO Medicaid work requirements bill!

06/07/18
BREAKING NEWS: The Michigan Legislature has passed their terrible, horrible, harmful, and unnecessary Medicaid work requirements bill , and it will be heading to Governor Snyder’s desk in the coming days. This is our last chance to speak out and stop this bill, which would take away the health care...
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We need to keep the pressure on to protect SNAP!

05/30/18
You spoke out and your voices were heard! On May 18th , the destructive GOP Farm Bill failed to pass the U.S. House of Representatives ! This bill included harmful and unnecessary changes to SNAP (food stamps) that would lead to more families struggling to put food on the table. It’s because of...
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My Remarks on the GOP Farm Bill and SNAP

05/23/18
Good afternoon and thank you for having me here to share my story. My name is Sandy Waters and I live here in Washington, DC. I know that imposing work requirements for SNAP beneficiaries would crush hardworking individuals and families – because that’s what would have happened to me. Watch Sandy...
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MomsRising Celebrates Overcoming the Terrible-For-Families House Farm Bill

05/18/18
The moms of America can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Republican Farm Bill failed on the floor of the House of Representatives. The rejection of this bill is a victory for America’s families, because it includes callous, new requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (...
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SNAP changed my life. Stop targeting it with cuts.

05/14/18
This is a guest post by Sharvonne Williams. As a child growing up in Harlem, I never realized that I was living in poverty. I didn’t know that the groceries my mom brought home were purchased with food stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). My mom did a lot of...
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Share your SNAP experience with MomsRising!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7055/">Share your SNAP experience with MomsRising!</a>

MomsRising wants to hear from YOU about how work-related requirements in order to access SNAP would affect your family now or when you were on this program in the past. Tell us your story!

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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7162/">Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!</a>

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress are proposing significant cuts to SNAP in the Farm Bill, as well as creating unnecessary and harmful barriers to access. SIGN OUR LETTER NOW & tell Congress to protect SNAP!

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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

Tell Congress: Protect Net Neutrality!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/6314/">Tell Congress: Protect Net Neutrality! </a>

An open internet is essential to protecting freedoms we hold dear: our ability to innovate, speak our mind, connect, and hear diverse voices and opinions. Urgent action needed!

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Sign Our Thank You Note!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7614/">Sign Our Thank You Note!</a>

Victory! We defeated the GOP Farm Bill and its harmful changes to SNAP (food stamps). But now Speaker Ryan has scheduled a revote. Sign our thank you note to the members of Congress who voted NO on the Farm Bill and encourage them to keep it up!

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Sign our SNAP Thank You Note!

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