This is a crisis on top of a crisis! The U.S. must pass a COVID-relief
package NOW!
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Dear Friend,
We need your help! In just three weeks, unless the U.S. Congress acts,
many of the pandemic relief policies that have been lifelines for our
families and economy (like extended unemployment benefits, emergency paid
family leave and earned sick days, and eviction protections) will all
expire on December 31st. [ [link removed] ]
We are facing a crisis on top of a crisis!
[1]***SIGN OUR PETITION NOW! We’ll be delivering your signatures on Monday
telling the U.S. Congress #ReliefCantWait!
Congress has no time to waste. Our families, like Kimberly’s, are
hurting:
“I’m a single parent with a school age child. Since the pandemic began, I
lost my second job and all child care options. I’m fortunate enough to be
able to work from home, but it’s nearly impossible to work full time and
supervise remote learning. My rent increased, grocery costs are soaring,
and I learned this week that our company health plan costs are increasing
significantly in January. Our budget is razor thin and shrinking. Seven
members of my family have COVID-19 and we lost family earlier this year.
Everyone I know is suffering from this pandemic.”
These critical benefits that are about to expire? They’ve been helping so
many of us. For examples, a recent study from researchers at Cornell
University and the Swiss Economic Institute, states with new access to
emergency paid leave during the pandemic have seen 400 fewer cases per
day, further underscoring that paid leave is one of the best tools for
slowing the spread of the virus and combating the pandemic. [ [link removed] ]
We can’t let paid leave and other critical programs expire just as
COVID-19 is surging.
Making your voice heard now is super important because negotiations have
started on an end-of-the year COVID-relief package and we’re hearing that
a final package might be introduced in the coming days. [ [link removed] ] We need to
make sure Congress takes action to extend critical COVID relief to
families and that OUR priorities are in that package--not just protections
and giveaways to big business and the very wealthy.
Our families have been waiting months for more funding for programs that
will support our families, hospitals, and economy during this pandemic.
Programs like expanded unemployment benefits, extensions on emergency paid
leave and earned sick days, protections against evictions, funding for
healthcare programs and childcare and K-12 education, and expansions of
the EITC and Child Tax Credit and another round of stimulus checks are
essential to provide much needed cash to struggling families and local
businesses.
While we have needed this package for months, the crisis point we are
facing right now is extreme. Unless the U.S. Congress takes action within
the next few weeks, 12 million people will be immediately kicked off of
unemployment insurance [ [link removed] ] and 19 million renters will lose their homes.
[ [link removed] ] This is all at the same time that 1 in 4 children are living in hunger
because of the impacts of COVID and cases of the virus are soaring in
every single state—and only expected to go up as we head into the holidays
and colder months. [6,7]
[2]Inaction is not an option! Our families and economy are hurting and we
need our leaders in the U.S. Congress to know that we expect them to take
action NOW!
Even if you think your members of Congress already support COVID relief,
we need all of Congress talking about how much they are hearing from their
constituents about how urgent this is. This is why earlier in the week we
asked you to call your U.S. Senators and now we are asking that you sign
our petition.
[3]***PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION NOW and let your U.S. Senators and
Representative know that we need an emergency COVID-relief package before
the end of the year!
We plan on delivering this petition Monday morning so after you sign our
petition, please forward this email to your friends and family. You can
also [4]Retweet us on Twitter and repost us on [5]Facebook. We need to
continue to make our voices heard until the U.S. Congress passes emergency
aid for COVID!
-Elyssa, Ruth, Felicia, Nina, Hanna, Donna, Kristin, and the whole
MomsRising / MamásConPoder team
P.S. Are you one of the people that will lose emergency paid leave or
unemployment benefits at the end of the year? Are you struggling with
child care and/or virtual learning during the pandemic? [ [link removed] ]MomsRising
wants to hear from you about your COVID experience.
P.P.S. Monday morning can you call your U.S. Senators and let them know
that #ReliefCantWait? Text RELIEFNOW to 747464 and when we connect you
tell them, “Pass a COVID-relief package that protects all families and
extends paid leave, unemployment benefits, eviction protections and
funding for childcare and healthcare.”
[1] [ [link removed] ]“Here Are All The Coronavirus Relief Programs Expiring At the End
of the Year.” Forbes, November 17, 2020.
[2][ [link removed] ]”COVID-19 Emergency Sick Leave Has Helped Flatten the Curve in the
United States.” Health Affairs, October 15, 2020.
[3] [ [link removed] ]“Stimulus Package Status: Negotiations race with new hope toward
Dec. 11 goalpost.” CNET, December 3, 2020.
[4] [ [link removed] ]“12 Million Workers Facing Jobless Benefit Cliff on December 26.”
The Century Foundation, November 18, 2020.
[5] [ [link removed] ]“Nearly 19 million Americans could lose their homes when eviction
limits expire Dec. 31.” CBS News, November 27, 2020.
[6] [ [link removed] ]“One in Six Americans Could Go Hungry In 2020 as pandemic
persists.” National Geographic, November 24, 2020.
[7] [ [link removed] ]“U.S. reported more COVID-19 cases in November than most countries
had all year.” CBS News, November 30, 2020.
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