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Dear Friend,
I hope you’ve seen the news because right now congress is on its way to
making HISTORIC investments in child care and other critical programs for
families and we need YOUR voice to get this WIN over the finish line!
[ [link removed] ]Let’s keep up the MOMentum on child care! Urge your member of Congress
to make a comprehensive, affordable, high-quality child care and Pre-K
system for families a reality by passing the Build Back Better Plan!
We saw the Bipartisan Infrastructure package pass last week, which is
great news! While this is a huge and long overdue accomplishment,
lawmakers’ work is not nearly done. We need the Build Back Better Act to
also pass because just like people need bridges and roads to drive on to
go to work, people need a care infrastructure so parents and caregivers
can go to work -- and keep their jobs when a new baby arrives or a serious
health crisis occurs -- and so children can thrive, and care workers can
earn living wages. Yesterday, hundreds of care workers and families
marched in DC with one clear message - we can’t wait one more day for
these solutions to become reality. This is where YOUR help and YOUR
actions become crucial again to tell Congress that we must push for a
victory on this critical bill package.
And what exactly would victory look like for childcare? The passage of the
Build Back Together package means:
* Lower child care costs for nine out of ten families with young
children
* Guaranteed high-quality child care choices for parents by expanding
the supply of safe, nurturing options particularly for infants and
toddlers
* Creating and supporting millions of jobs, including for early
educators and parents
* Raising the wages of early educators - 95 percent of whom are women
and disproportionately women of color - to at least a living wage,
with wages comparable to elementary school educators for those with
similar credentials
* Providing FREE universal pre-kindergarten for three and four-year-olds
in diverse settings that meet families’ needs; and
* Supporting children's healthy development, ensuring that regardless of
economic status, race, zip code, language or ability all children have
a strong foundation.
The Build Back Better Act would also ensure policies like paid
family/medical leave, home- and community-based services, groundbreaking
investments in maternal health, more affordable medicines, an expanded
Child Tax Credit, and protections for immigrants would lift our families,
businesses, and economy!
[ [link removed] ]NOW is the right time to Build Back Better and build a strong care
infrastructure! Click to urge Congress to take action!
Build Back Better lowers costs for families, which helps stop inflation.
It also creates jobs, and makes good jobs better jobs. And by lowering
family costs, and ensuring parents and immigrants can work, we can fix
labor shortages and stop inflation.
Only when Congress finishes that work will our country finally have the
care infrastructure all families need and the just recovery from the
pandemic we all deserve. We will continue speaking out and pressing for
the progress we need until that work is done.
[ [link removed] ]*We are ALMOST THERE! Tell Congress that they must act NOW for our
families and for the future of our nation by passing the Build Back Better
Act ASAP!
Build Back Better includes the most transformative investment in children
and caregiving in a generation.
Together we can make history!
- Nadia, Nina, Kristin, Donna, and the whole MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder
Team
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