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TELL CONGRESS: Support Working Family Tax Credits!

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 To Tell Congress: “Repeal the #TrumpTaxScam!

12/10/19
After two years, the evidence is in. President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (aka the Trump Tax Scam) has made things much worse by exacerbating income and wealth inequality with the vast majority of the tax cuts going to the richest 1% and big corporations. ***SIGN OUR LETTER calling on the U.S...
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Elyssa Koidin Schmier
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

States Can Boost WIC, Improve Outcomes for Low-Income Women, Young Children

12/09/19
State policymakers can do more to ensure that low-income women and young children participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Just over half of those eligible currently participate, despite WIC’s well-documented role in improving birth, diet,...
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Zoe Neuberger
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Families & The Federal Budget Immigration

QUICK ACTION NEEDED to support immigrant families!

12/09/19
We want our tax dollars to go to programs that boost our families, not the incarceration of immigrant children and families! Send a letter to your local newspaper NOW speaking out against the funding of Trump's cruel immigration policies!
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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

Tax time is a big deal.

12/06/19
[This is a guest blog post by Aaron Carrillo, a RESULTS advocate in Lawrence, Kansas.] Some kids look forward to their birthdays, or holidays. When I was young, my brother and I looked forward to tax time. It meant we could finally buy a second pair of shoes, or pants that fit. My mom would worry...
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Deborah Lash
Families & The Federal Budget

In Connecticut, advocates succeed in push for Census funding

11/22/19
Editor’s note: The Coalition on Human Needs is part of a coordinated effort to make sure young children are counted accurately in the 2020 Census. As part of this campaign, Count All Kids is focusing on what advocates in some states are doing to ensure an accurate count – and what lessons and...
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David Elliot
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QUICK SIGNATURE: Tell Trump #HandsOffSNAP- AGAIN!

11/20/19
Trump is ridiculously at it again. It’s only been a few months since President Trump’s last attack on SNAP (or food stamps), but now he’s at it again with his cruel attempts to take food stamps away from struggling families in order to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations — even...
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Elyssa Koidin Schmier

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Tell Congress: Repeal the #TrumpTaxScam!!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/12360/?source=action">Tell Congress: Repeal the #TrumpTaxScam!!</a>

On the 2nd anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (aka the Trump Tax Scam) SIGN our letter calling on Congress to repeal the #TrumpTaxScam and replace it with tax policies that boost working families!

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Tell Congress: Repeal the #TrumpTaxScam!!

TELL CONGRESS: Support Working Family Tax Credits!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/9750/?source=action">TELL CONGRESS: Support Working Family Tax Credits!</a>

We need tax policies that work for working families, NOT mega-corporations! Sign our letter to Congress now telling them to strengthen the EITC and Child Tax Credit!

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TELL CONGRESS: Support Working Family Tax Credits!

Tell Congress: No tax cuts for billionaires and mega-corporations!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7716/?source=action">Tell Congress: No tax cuts for billionaires and mega-corporations!</a>

Despite the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act being unpopular and harmful to our economy, the GOP leadership and President Trump are proposing a second round of tax cuts for the 1% and mega-corporations. SIGN OUR LETTER NOW speaking out!

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The GOP-Trump Tax Scam 2.0 is coming! SPEAK OUT!

Tell Congress: Protect Net Neutrality!

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

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