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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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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: March 23, 2019

03/23/19
Happy Saturday! We're sharing our latest list of top actions from the past week for your social justice-seeking pleasure. This week we're talking about gun safety, tax reform, maternal justice, and more! As always your voice is powerful and urgently needed. Please take a moment to sign and share...
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Karen Showalter
Repeal the Trump Tax Scam!
Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

QUICK SIGNATURE⇒ Repeal the Trump tax cuts for the 1% and Wall Street

03/21/19
It’s tax time and we are getting an angry earful from moms around the country about Trump’s backwards tax scam— and need your help letting Congress know what’s going on in the real lives of families in our nation: “ My taxes have gone up due to the cap on state and local taxes. Now it does not pay...
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Elyssa Koidin Schmier
Trump Budget Update!
Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Immigration Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

SIGNATURE NEEDED: Trump’s budget hurts moms & families!

03/21/19
President Trump released his FY2020 budget last week and no surprises here— he slashed funding for programs that boost our families and kids in order to pay for his wasteful wall and tax cuts to the 1% and Wall Street. I’ll be blunt: President Trump seems to have forgotten that people like you and...
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Elyssa Koidin Schmier
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

Testimony for the Growing a Healthy Next Generation: Examining Federal Child Nutrition Programs Hearing 3.12.19

03/12/19
Below is testimony submitted by MomsRising Member, Nikki Berlew-O’Meara, to the hearing of the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing as part of the House Education and Labor Committee held on March 12, 2019.
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Abbie Gately
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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: March 8, 2019

03/08/19
It's been another busy week, and we're ready for the weekend. But first: can you make sure to check off of our most urgent actions from this past week? From telling the Senate to stop Trump's power grab, to sharing your story about the importance of quality and affordable childcare, your voice is...
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Karen Showalter
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Realistic & Fair Wages

#GoodNews This Week: Blocking Private Prison Money, Childcare Tax Credit, More!

03/08/19
VICTORY ! MomsRising/MamásconPoder leads the #FamiliesBelongTogether Corporate Accountability Committee of over 100 organizations… and we're thrilled to share that we just had a HUGE victory. One of our two key corporate targets, JP Morgan Chase bank, just announced: "We will no longer bank 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!

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!

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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