Add your signature to our letter to Congress and the White House urging
them to include care economy and family-first policies in their next
economic package!
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Dear Friend,
We’ve got one we can mark down in the WIN column! On Tuesday, President
Biden signed a major spending bill into law that creates increases in
dedicated funding for food and nutrition, housing, early learning, and
other essential federal programs. [ [link removed] ] For the first time in many years,
the federal budget prioritizes our families, which, in turn, not only
lowers costs for families but also boosts the economy and helps stop
inflation.
[1]Now it’s time to double-down! We need to build on this momentum and
pressure Congress and the White House to pass an economic package that
builds the care infrastructure that we, our nation’s businesses, and our
economy need in order to succeed.
[ [link removed] ]***TELL CONGRESS TO ACT NOW, WITHOUT DELAY! Urge them to include
essential care infrastructure policies in the next economic reconciliation
package!
The care infrastructure includes a childcare and Pre-K system so parents
can go to work, kids can thrive, and care workers can earn living wages.
It also includes an extension of the monthly Child Tax Credit checks that
just lifted over 40% of kids out of poverty in 2021, the largest single
year drop in child poverty in our nation’s history. It includes home- and
community-based care for our loved ones with disabilities and who are
aging, as well as health equity measures including the Momnibus. And it
includes paid family and medical leave when a new baby arrives or serious
illness strikes so we can keep our jobs as our families change.
[ [link removed] ]***SIGN OUR LETTER to the White House and Congress calling on them to
include essential care infrastructure policies in the next economic
reconciliation package!
The recently passed budget is an important recognition of the crisis we
face as a nation, but we need Congress to return to the unfinished
business of building a care infrastructure – and an economy that works for
all of us. The need for substantial policies like a childcare system and
equitable maternal health access, an extension of the monthly Child Tax
Credit checks, lowering prescription drug prices, home- and
community-based services for the aging and people with disabilities, and a
national paid family and medical leave policy are critical—as they have
been for the past two years as our families struggle through this pandemic
and economic uncertainty.
We have a crisis that we can solve. Inflation is costing the average U.S.
family an additional $296 per month. [2] There are proposals before
Congress right now that could help our families shoulder those costs (and
address inflation)—some of which, like the expanded monthly Child Tax
Credit checks, could be up and running next month if Congress were to take
action. Passing a childcare and Pre-K policy, as well as paid family and
medical leave, both help our nation have consistent workforce
participation that then helps address supply chain issues, which, in turn,
helps lower inflation.
We don’t need lip service on lowering costs for families. [3] We need
action!!
[ [link removed] ]Add your signature to our letter to Congress and the White House urging
them to include care economy and family-first policies in their next
economic package!
The good news is the next win for our families has already been proposed:
the U.S. House already passed the Build Back Better Act. But then in
December, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and the entirety of all
Republican Senators refused to pass it. We need to reinvigorate the Senate
to pass life saving measures for families like extending the Child Tax
Credit monthly payments, solving the childcare crisis, guaranteeing paid
family and medical leave when your family needs it, making home-and
community-based services for the elderly and those with disabilities more
affordable, ensuring maternal health equity, lowering the cost of insulin
and other prescription drugs, and more.
The path to victory—and to passing policies that lower costs for our
families and lift up the economy—are right there. Now Congress and the
White House need to take action and include these measures in the next
reconciliation package they are moving forward.
[ [link removed] ]***Sign our letter now and then forward the link to your friends and
family so they can take action as well. It’s going to take all our efforts
to make sure that our families are not left behind as the next policy win
moves towards victory!
Thank you for continuing to stand up for our families and economy.
- Elyssa, Donna, Hanna, Jordan, Nina, Ruth Kristin, and the whole
MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder Team
P.S. We want to hear from YOU about how the rising cost of groceries, gas,
childcare, and other services are impacting your family. Share your story
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