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The federal budget campaign champions the priorities of women, moms, and families in the federal budget. This campaign includes work on taxes/revenues, SNAP, WIC, Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Medicaid, CHIP, healthy school lunches, and more.

People are often surprised to hear that even a physician can end up on Medicaid...but I’m a great example that it can happen to anyone. I’m 32 years old, married, with two small children and I am a family physician. In January of this year, right at the beginning of a new plan year and new...Read more
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Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Parenting & Families Podcast Politics & Policy

Breaking Through: Trump-Proofing Your State. Protecting Immigrants. Farmers Fighting Back. Saving Medicaid

03/03/25
On the radio show this week we dive into the power of policy at the state level, including paid family & medical leave, to “Trump-proof” your state. We hear the latest with immigration policy and the importance of the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act . We cover Trump’s immigration and tariff...
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

Pide al Congreso que de prioridad a las familias antes que a los multimillonarios

02/25/25
Tenemos noticias y no son buenas . La semana pasada quedaron muy claros los planes de los republicanos de la extrema derecha de la Cámara de Representantes con la publicación de su resolución presupuestaria: están tratando de aprobar una ley que reduciría masivamente los impuestos ($4.5 TRILLONES)...
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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising Paid Family Leave Parenting & Families Podcast Politics & Policy

Breaking Through: Protecting Medicaid. Advancing Maternal Mental Health. The Importance of Federal Workers. Power of the Purse

02/24/25
On the radio show this week we cover the ways in which Medicaid is under attack by Republican leaders in Congress, Trump, and Musk – and how to fight back; then we dive into the maternal health, and maternal mental health, crisis in America and what you can do; after that we cover how the work of...
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Families & The Federal Budget Maternal Justice MomsRising Podcast Politics & Policy

Breaking Through: Federal Workers Under Attack, Maternal Health in Jeopardy, Keeping Public Education, & Top Concerns of Main Street America

02/17/25
On the radio show this week we cover Trump's attack on federal workers, the critical services they provide and the disproportionate impact on women and people of color. We dive into how we can win at the state level, even in red states, with bipartisan support for issues like maternal health. We...
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Families & The Federal Budget Parenting & Families Podcast

Breaking Through: Toxic Tariffs, Trade Wars, Taxes, Taking on Patriarchy and White Supremacy

02/10/25
On the radio show this week we dive into a snapshot of uplifting news between the headlines as we hear from a mom and small business owner who recently testified before Congress about how tariffs and trade wars hurt our families and our economy – and why child care and care infrastructure policies...
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Breaking Through: Executive Orders. Funding Freezes. Health Care. Child Care. Justice Reform, & How to Raise Your Voice.

02/03/25
On the radio show this week we dive into the confusion, harm, and chaos caused by Donald Trump's ridiculous Executive Orders and nominees, from a funding freeze that shut down Medicaid portals in all 50 states to the nomination of an unqualified, unfit, and utterly confused cabinet nominee in RFK...
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Stop Trump’s Tariff War on Families!

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Trump’s tariff war on families means only one thing: rising costs for all of us! ***SIGN OUR LETTER calling on the U.S. Congress to intervene, save our economy, and stop Trump’s Tariff War on Families!

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How does SNAP (Food Stamps) help your family put food on the table?

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/39851/?source=action">How does SNAP (Food Stamps) help your family put food on the table?</a>

Many families are currently struggling to put food on the table. Are you or your family receiving SNAP (also called food stamps or EBT) to try to make ends meet? If so, how is this program helping your family put food on the table right now?

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How does SNAP (Food Stamps) help your family put food on the table?

How are rising costs impacting you and your family?

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/44780/?source=action">How are rising costs impacting you and your family?</a>

Trump and the Republican's actions are leading to rising costs for everything from groceries to housing to fuel. How will this impact you and your family?

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How are rising costs impacting you and your family?

SIGN NOW to protect SNAP!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/39939/?source=action">SIGN NOW to protect SNAP!</a>

Tell Congress to back the Senate version of the Farm Bill that protects SNAP and reject the Republican-led House version that would increase hunger!

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