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Six from SiX brings you monthly updates highlighting the power of state legislators in deep collaboration with their communities and resources to support you in this work.

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** Black Maternal Health Week 2025
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Join SiX’s Week of Action for Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) from April 11-17, 2025! This year’s theme is “Healing Legacies: Strengthening Black Maternal Health Through Collective Action and Advocacy.”

SiX is making social media graphics to highlight state legislators who support Black maternal health. These graphics will be available for legislators to share during the week of action. If you are interested, submit a 40-50 word quote and a high-quality headshot by Friday, March 14th at 5:00 PM ET using this form. ([link removed])
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** Legislators Resist “Bayer Bill”
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SiX recently organized state legislators to discuss a dangerous pesticide preemption bill introduced in eight states. This “Bayer bill” would protect the company from legal responsibility for harm caused by its products. Instead of facing lawsuits, Bayer is backing laws that take away farmers’ and rural communities’ rights to seek justice. To help legislators push back, SiX has created a password-protected toolkit ([link removed]) with key resources for fighting this bill in their states.


** Federal Rapid Response Rooms
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Every two weeks, SiX teams up with State Futures to host a federal rapid response room. Our most recent session focused on public education. Education is key to economic and political power, which is why universal public schooling was fought for—not given. In the past two months, the White House has issued harmful and even illegal policies that threaten public schools and vulnerable students. Find resources on who is affected, messaging tips, and explainers here. ([link removed])

Join us for our next rapid response room ([link removed]) on March 20, where we’ll hear from leading experts as they unpack the harmful impact of the Trump administration’s executive actions on rural communities, farmers, and our food system and tools you can use with your constituents.
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** How State Spending Can Build a Good Jobs Economy
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State governments spend billions of public dollars on goods, services, and infrastructure. But too often, this spending leads to low-paying, poor-quality jobs that don’t help local communities.

Our new report, How State Spending Can Create a Good Jobs Economy, ([link removed]) written with the Center for American Progress ([link removed]) , offers clear solutions. It shows how policymakers can use public money to improve jobs, raise wages, and create better economic opportunities for everyone.
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** Protecting Immigrant Communities: A Toolkit for State Actions
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Immigrant communities across the country are facing more threats—from harsh federal enforcement to harmful state laws that criminalize and exclude them. But state lawmakers can push back.

SiX is proud to share the State Power to Protect Immigrant Communities ([link removed]) toolkit. This resource helps legislators create better policies, protect workers, and expand access to important services.

For safety reasons, the toolkit is password-protected. Fill out this form to get access. ([link removed])


** New Report: Prohibiting Surveillance Prices and Wages
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Corporations collect huge amounts of personal data to set different prices and wages for different people. They charge some customers more based on their financial situation while paying workers as little as possible. These unfair practices increase inequality, invade privacy, and take power away from workers and small businesses.

SiX is proud to join partners in releasing this important report. ([link removed]) It explains the dangers of data-driven pricing and wage-setting and offers a strong plan for states to ban these harmful practices.

State legislators, if you’d like to go deeper into SiX’s issue areas, join our legislator cohorts: the Economic Power Project ([link removed]) , the Cohort for Rural Opportunity ([link removed]) and Prosperity, and the Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council! ([link removed])

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