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Dear Friend,

Sometimes I feel like we’ve lived 6 years in the span of this very short
election season that is just months long. You feel me? We’re in the home
stretch and exercising our right to vote is critically important. We have
so much on the line and so much opportunity to advance real change for
families, including advancing affordable child care! 

In this moment, right now, the choices have truly never been more clear:
In fact, did you know VP Harris and Governor Walz support childcare, paid
family and medical leave, and reproductive freedom -- and that Trump/Vance
DON'T support those critically important policies?  

VP Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz are the ONLY candidates in the
Presidential race to have earned our mom-built, mom-approved Moms’ Seal of
Approval on Child Care. [ [link removed] ]*Click here to learn more about all the
candidates across the country who have also earned this high honor. 

And your vote is important: Democrats like VP Kamala Harris and Governor
Tim Walz support expanding access to childcare, including expanding family
choice to find the option that best meets a family’s needs (including in
faith-based settings) – and Republicans have harmfully blocked this time
and time again.

Your voice is important too. Voters are telling candidates what moms and
families have long known: 89% of voters want candidates to have a plan to
help families find and access affordable child care, and unsurprisingly
but importantly, 8 in 10 Americans say they are more likely to support a
candidate for Congress who supports expanding affordable childcare
options. [ [link removed] ] 

And it’s not surprising why given that two-thirds of children from birth
through age 12 have all available parents in the workforce. [ [link removed] ] And many
more parents would join the workforce if good child care options were
available. But, over the last decade, the median cost for child care has
increased a staggering 36 percent. [ [link removed] ] Unfortunately, 34% of parents
report having to leave much-needed jobs because of lack of child care. [ [link removed] ]
This hurts families and businesses alike. So it makes sense that studies
show the U.S. actually loses $122 billion each year in economic
productivity and revenue losses due to child care. [ [link removed] ]

It doesn’t have to be this way.  Solutions are possible – and candidates
like Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz are fighting for
those solutions every day.  The moms of America want every candidate for
public office to truly stand with families by also putting forward
policies that meet the needs of moms, families, businesses, and our
economy. Candidates who receive the Moms' Seal of Approval on Child Care
(like Vice President Harris and Governor Walz, along with more than 100
other candidates up and down that ballot have successfully done) commit to
working in partnership with families and providers to advance child care
policy change that make it affordable, more accessible so families have
the freedom to choose care settings that meet their needs, and to increase
quality by providing family-sustaining wages to the child care educator
workforce. [ [link removed] ]

We need more candidates and elected leaders like VP Harris and Governor
Tim Walz who commit to being champions for the policies we as families
need and deserve. [2]*Click here to learn more about all the candidates
who are stepping up to be child care champions.

The good news is that VP Harris and Governor Tim Walz are true champions
for child care and, as the kids say, they have the receipts to back it up!
[1] As a Presidential candidate, Harris has proposed making child care
more affordable so that families pay no more than $10 a day on child care,
raising the wages of child care providers so they can provide for their
own families, and increasing access to child care choices that meet the
needs of all families! [2] Now that is a policy that is music to families’
ears!

[3]Learn more about which candidates in your area and across the country
who have earned the Moms’ Seal of Approval on Child Care. 

It’s voting season. Get your vote on, involve the kids in your life, have
fun – and let’s win this for our families and our democracy! 

Together we are powerful voice for children and families,

Lauren, Nina, and the entire MomsRising Together team

 

[1] [4]First Five Years Fund Poll

[2] [5]The Century Foundation “Americans Agree Child Care Should be More
Affordable”

[3] [6]The Century Foundation "The Case for Child Care and Early Learning
for All"

[4] [7]The Threat that High Child Care Costs Post to the U.S. Economy

[5] [ [link removed] ]Bipartisan Policy Center, "The Illusion of Parental Choice"

[6] [ [link removed] ]Forbes: “U.S. Child Care Crisis is Holding Back the Workforce”

[7] [ [link removed] ]Moms’ Seal of Approval on Child Care

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