Just making sure you saw the invitation below. Tomorrow, we are making a big push for a Care Economy. Scroll down for details.

*** I have an exciting update: We just got word that U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be joining the #CareCantWait Power Up Rally!

Advocates and champions, including members of Congress, leaders -- and Speaker Pelosi -- are coming together tomorrow, October 21, to support the care agenda in Build Back Better, including: Paid family/medical leave, child care, home-and community-based services for older people and people with disabilities, a fully refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC), living wages and a path to citizenship for all care workers in the reconciliation package. During this event, we will share and hear stories that lift the urgent need for a care infrastructure to lift businesses, families, and our economy. #CareCantWait!

WHERE: Union Square on the west side of the Capitol lawn off 3rd Street SW, between Constitution Ave NW and Independence Ave SW, and near the Capitol Reflecting Pool (section 15, See map). *This is an outdoor event. Masks are strongly suggested and supported (masks will be available to everyone).

WHO: Care Can't Wait Coalition & organized by MomsRising and many others, including: Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, Caring Across Generations, Family Values @ Work, Main Street Alliance!, MomsRising, NCBCP/Black Women's Roundtable, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Partnership for Women and Families, National Women's Law Center, Paid Leave for All, SEIU, Supermajority, The Arc of the United States, UltraViolet, United State of Women, We Demand More Coalition, Women’s March, ZERO TO THREE, Building Back Together, and more.

It’s now or never. Many of our most pressing demands for a Care Economy are on the line this week as Congress negotiates -- and as lawmakers like Senators Manchin and Sinema remain hold outs!

Your voice, presence, and power are urgently needed in DC to show that child care, paid family and medical leave, home-and community-based services, extending the Child Tax Credit expansion, living wages, and a path to citizenship for care workers can’t wait! These policies are job enabling and job creating. They boost our economy and our families, and we need them now!!

Congress is deliberating on these policies as you read this. You coming together (literally) with us will powerfully and directly show Congress that they need to get moving and pass the care infrastructure in the Build Back Better reconciliation package ASAP!

The ongoing pandemic continues to take its toll on families, businesses, and the economy, and we are just done -- DONE! -- with the slow downs in building the care infrastructure that’s outlined in the Biden Build Back Better plans, including the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan!

We’re outraged that Senator Manchin is demanding Congress choose only one care component in the Build Back Better plan. MomsRising and the entire Care Can’t Wait Coalition are fighting like hell for the FULL Build Back Better Act, including Child Care for All, Paid Family & Medical Leave, Home-and Community-Based Services, a permanent Child Tax Credit expansion, living wages, and a path to citizenship for all care workers.

We have a chance to make transformative changes for the better in our nation. Be there to help make it happen.

WHERE: Union Square on the west side of the Capitol lawn off 3rd Street SW, between Constitution Ave NW and Independence Ave SW; and near the Capitol Reflecting Pool (Section 15, See map). *This is an outdoor event. Masks are strongly suggested and supported (masks will be available to everyone).

WHO: Care Can't Wait Coalition & organized by MomsRising and many others, including: Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, Caring Across Generations, Family Values @ Work, Main Street Alliance, MomsRising, NCBCP/Black Women's Roundtable, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Partnership for Women and Families, National Women's Law Center, Paid Leave for All, SEIU, Supermajority, The Arc of the United States, UltraViolet, United State of Women, We Demand More Coalition, Women’s March, ZERO TO THREE, Building Back Together, and more.

Please forward this email to friends, family, and everyone you know who’s had enough. We need and deserve all the policies that create a Care Economy. Congress needs to prioritize families now!

Kristin, Gloria, Namatie, Ruth, Nina, Nadia, Nate, Donna, Xochitl, Sili, Tola, and the entire MomsRising / MamásConPoder team

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