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Working families need comprehensive and permanent paid leave right now.

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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What's in Build Back Better (BBB) for Families? MomsRising Staff Explains

12/17/21
Every provision of the Build Back Better agenda is supported by at least two in three Americans. This is why it's important to spread the word far and wide about what is in this proposed legislation and what it would mean for families.
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MS. MAGAZINE OPINION: Build Back Better Would Be a Game Changer

01/18/22
On Jan. 6, 2022, Ms. Magazine published an opinion piece that I co-wrote with MomsRising partner, Women’s Economic Justice Director and The Century Foundation Senior Fellow Julie Kashen: The U.S. Is in Urgent Need of Childcare Solutions. Build Back Better Would Be a Game-Changer In the opinion, we...
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Omicron is raging & families need support

01/05/22
Like many others, my 2022 is off to a rocky start. I am writing this as I scramble to find a COVID-19 test appointment for my feverish two-year-old and my son is home with his school closed. I know I am far from alone. Families need a lifeline, but just when we need help the most, the U.S. Senate failed to act before the new year to extend the monthly Child Tax Credit payments and pass key policies like paid family and medical leave and child care that would have helped families, businesses, and our economy weather this COVID-19 surge.
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Heat or Medical Care?

12/16/21
Millions of people enroll in Medicaid every year, but roughly one million are removed because of complex enrollment rules or administrative mix-ups. Research shows that eliminating Medicaid churn would lead to 585,000 more children getting at least one routine checkup, and 174,000 children getting the specialty care they need each year.
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Hey Congress -- Don't take away our monthly CTC payments, Pass BBB Today!

12/15/21
December 15th will be the LAST monthly Child Tax Credit check for families if the U.S. Senate doesn’t act by the end of the year! It’s time to tell the U.S. Senate to vote yes and pass the Build Back Better Act and save the Child Tax Credit that helps children and families thrive!
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RSVP to Support Grandmothers Fighting for Build Back Better!

12/08/21
Grandmothers have been stepping up in a big way to fill in gaps in care for grandkids and other members of the family during the pandemic. They know first hand how the policies in the Build Back Better Act will help their families, businesses, and the economy. That’s why, this Thursday, December 9, at 12 noon, grandmothers will be heading to the U.S. Capitol to take the lead in urging Congress to vote YES on the Build Back Better Act.
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Now not later. Pass paid family and medical leave in the Build Back Better Act.

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/22053/?source=action">Now not later. Pass paid family and medical leave in the Build Back Better Act.</a>

The Senate needs to pass the Build Back Better Act with permanent and equitable paid family and medical leave now.

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Working families need comprehensive and permanent paid leave right now.

TELL YOUR U.S. SENATORS: In the face of Omicron, families need the CTC, Paid Leave, and Child Care – Pass BBB NOW!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/21914/?source=action">TELL YOUR U.S. SENATORS: In the face of Omicron, families need the CTC, Paid Leave, and Child Care – Pass BBB NOW!</a>

Just as families need support the most, monthly Child Tax Credit payments ended in December because Joe Manchin and the Republican Senators refused to pass Build Back Better. With Omicron raging, it's more important than ever to pass BBB to make child care and elder care affordable, guarantee paid family and medical leave, lower the cost of insulin and other prescription drugs, make healthcare more affordable, and more.

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Omicron is Raging, Families Need Support - Tell the U.S. Senate Families Need them to ACT

Quick Signature: Urge Congress to Make Improvements to the CTC Permanent and Build a Strong Care Infrastructure!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/19585/?source=action">Quick Signature: Urge Congress to Make Improvements to the CTC Permanent and Build a Strong Care Infrastructure!</a>

Congress must act now to save the Child Tax Credit by the end of 2021 and build a strong care economy. They need to hear us urging them to do what's necessary to build an economy where everyone can thrive. Take a few seconds to sign on to our letter.

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This program lifted millions of children out of poverty, it must continue!

Tell Congress: Make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/17812/?source=action">Tell Congress: Make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent!</a>

Sign our petition NOW calling on Congress to make the improvements to the Child Tax Credit permanent!

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Tell Congress: Make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent!

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