[ [link removed] ]MomsRising presents: 5Actions
Top #5Actions
of the Past Week
Friday, July 9, 2021
As American families work to recover from the pandemic, we need your help
in making sure Congress and the Biden administration prioritizes policies
important to that recovery. And the time is now! Congress is putting
together their next package right this moment, so your voice is urgently
needed on the actions below.
There are #5Actions ready for you to take including getting the
information you and your friends need about the COVID vaccines directly
from Dr. Fauci, making the Child Tax Credit permanent, closing the
healthcare coverage gap, strengthening our childcare infrastructure, and
others.
We appreciate you and all you do!
-- Sue Anne, Felicia, Elyssa, Nadia, Ruth, Kristin and the rest of the
MomsRising / MamásConPoder Team
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Got COVID-19 vaccine questions? We've got answers!
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases at the NIH, and the chief medical advisor to President
Biden, is answering COVID-19 vaccine questions that have come straight
from MomsRising members.
[ [link removed] ]Watch this important video.
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Quick signature: Tell Congress to close the health coverage gap!
Your Action Status: NOT YET SIGNED -> [ [link removed] ]Sign Now
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important it is for people to have
health care coverage, especially in communities where large health
disparities have long been present. However, the fight against expanding
health coverage is still alive and well in over a dozen states as their
legislatures refuse to adopt (or in some cases implement) the expansion of
health care to low-income uninsured adults.
These twelve non-expansion states are primarily in the South, where the
majority of uninsured people are Black, Hispanic, or Asian. We need a
federal solution to help get health coverage to the more than two million
people in the Medicaid coverage gap who live in these non-expansion
states.
[ [link removed] ]Quick signature: Tell Congress to close the coverage gap for people in
states that refuse to expand Medicaid!
[ [link removed] ]WDM
Tell Congress: We Must Build Back Better for Women & Families!
Your Action Status: NOT YET SIGNED ->
[ [link removed] ]Sign Now
An infrastructure package without sufficient support for paid family
leave, child care, health care, and family care is not a complete package.
As Congress takes up President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, we need our
members of Congress to prioritize women and their families in all upcoming
legislation. We need a big, bold infrastructure package that prioritizes:
* Permanent paid family and medical leave
* Invests at least $700 B to direct spending for comprehensive child
care and early learning systems that children, families, early
educators, providers, employers and communities need to grow and
thrive
* A permanent expanded child tax credit
* Protects reproductive rights and invests in affordable health care
[ [link removed] ]Add your name to our letter urging Congress to include paid leave for
all, robust investments in child care, making the child tax credit
permanent, and protecting our reproductive rights and affordable health
care in the infrastructure package.
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Urge Congress to Pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus in the American
Families Plan!
Your Action Status: NOT YET SIGNED ->
[ [link removed] ]Sign Now
The United States is currently the most dangerous place to give birth in
the developed world, with major racial disparities where Black women lose
their lives at 3 to 4 times the rate of white women due to
maternity-related causes, independent of age, economic background, or
education, a fact that has done unchanged for several decades. The Black
Maternal Health Momnibus takes urgent, serious action to end this crisis
and is being included in President Biden’s American Families Plan.
[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress, support the most comprehensive legislative effort yet
to address the Black maternal health crisis in America!
[ [link removed] ]CTC
Tell Congress: Make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent!
Your Action Status: NOT YET SIGNED ->
[ [link removed] ]Sign Now
We have exciting news for you! Starting on July 15th, you could be getting
up to $300/month per child because of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC).
(If you've filed taxes in the past two years or received a stimulus check
you'll get this money automatically!). That’s some serious cash that will
do some serious good in helping our families make ends meet during this
difficult time. How much good? It will cut child poverty in half!
But unfortunately all the great improvements that have been made to the
CTC will go away after a year unless Congress takes immediate action and
makes it permanent.
[ [link removed] ]We need YOU to take action! SIGN OUR LETTER and tell the U.S. Congress
to make the improvements to the Child Tax Credit permanent immediately!
P.S.– Child care is a winning strategy for America’s families, which is
why we need to call on Congress ASAP to be the champions of a child care
infrastructure that can enable our nation to recover and thrive! As we
speak, our elected leaders are in budget conversations and we need to make
sure they hear our outside voices loud and clear if we want child care
included. Congress needs to get into the spirit of supporting moms and
caregivers who have too often been asked to take one for the team as
they’ve struggled to balance child care and the ability to financially
support their families. Now, as we move toward a national recovery we
finally have a chance to fix this child care crisis for good! [ [link removed] ]SIGN NOW
to tell Congress: It’s time to show our winning colors by building real
child care infrastructure that works for babies, kids, families, and early
educators!
P.P.S.– Join MomsRising and our partners on July 15th for a virtual rally
to celebrate the arrival of the monthly Child Tax Credit checks!
MomsRising’s Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and five
MomsRising members from around the country will be talking about what the
Child Tax Credit means to our families and all the hard work moms have
done to make this moment happen! We also will be joined by Senator
Elizabeth Warren (MA), Representative Barbara Lee and Rosa DeLauro, The
Poor People's Campaign Co-Chair Reverend William Barber II, and many
others to talk about what a historic moment this is for our families!
[ [link removed] ]Join us for FAMILY MATTERS: A Celebration of the Child Tax Credit
emceed live by Dorian Warren and Melissa Harris Perry on July 15th at
2pmET. RSVP here.
P.P.P.S.– This content is also on the [ [link removed] ]MomsRising blog!
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