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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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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Paid Family Leave Realistic & Fair Wages

We Are MomsRising, Jade from California

10/31/18
In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Jade in California about the childcare struggle and her experiences as an immigrant. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post . My partner Caesar is Mexican and I am British. It took...
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Abbie Gately
We Are MomsRising!
Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Social & Emotional Development

We Are MomsRising, Sheila from North Carolina

10/22/18
October is HeadStart Awarness Month. In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Sheila in North Carolina about her experiences with Early Head Start and Head Start. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post . My story with Head...
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Abbie Gately
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

The spin begins: basic needs programs are blamed for increasing the deficit, when tax cuts are really at fault

10/19/18
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.
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Debbie Weinstein
Families & The Federal Budget

Becoming a Millionaire Just Got a Million Times Harder

10/12/18
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...
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Stephen Prince
Families & The Federal Budget

I'm not a job creator

10/11/18
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

How Many Tax Cuts Do Millionaires Need?

10/10/18
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...
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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!

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!

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

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7716/">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/">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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