This Mother's Day, tell Congress to lower costs for families!

This Mother’s Day, what moms most want is to be able to support our families and pay our bills!

Your voice is needed. Instead of investing in our children, President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have consistently moved to cut trillions in funding for child care, SNAP, and Medicaid while diverting our taxpayer dollars into out-of-control ICE, reckless wars, and billionaire tax cuts. President Trump even said it himself: “We're fighting wars, we can't take care of daycare.” They are choosing cruelty and chaos over the stability that American families and our economy need to thrive.

Add your name to demand that Congress make life affordable for families and stop cutting our health care, child care, and healthy food for kids in order to fund Trump’s ballroom, an out-of control-ICE, and reckless wars.

Dear Member of Congress:

Working families are facing an unprecedented affordability crisis. A pound of hamburger now costs more than the federal minimum wage. [1] The cost of child care now exceeds the price of public college in most states—and more than rent in 17 states. [2] Millions of Americans are being pushed off health care altogether as health care premiums double, triple, and even quadruple. [3] [4] The cost of the basic pillars of living—housing, health care, food, and child care—now consumes so much of the household budget that a typical family needs $145,000 per year just to get by. [5]

As families are sitting down each month trying to make their budgets add up, moms want our hard-earned tax dollars to be used to fund programs that lift families, not to fund reckless wars or pay for separating families, human rights abuses, and terrifying immigrants—people essential to our care workforce, our economy and our future.

Moreover, families are struggling to put food on the table due to rising grocery and gas prices. Cuts to programs like SNAP and WIC that ensure kids have access to fruits and vegetables undermine children’s health and families' ability to make ends meet.

I urge Congress to address the affordability crisis by investing in child care, health care, and lowering the costs of everyday essentials like food and gas for American families. Passing these care infrastructure policies doesn’t just open avenues for people to be able to have children and succeed: they also help narrow the motherhood wage gaps and boost the economy too. [6] [7]

References:

[1] A Pound of Ground Beef Now Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage | Money

[2] Updated resource calculates the cost of child care in every state: Child care is more expensive than public college tuition in 38 states and Washington D.C. | Economic Policy Institute

[3] Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage | New York Times

[4] ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF

[5] A typical U.S. family needs annual income of $145,000 to thrive, study finds. About half fall short. | CBS News

[6] Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children | American Economic Association

[7] Fact Sheet: Child Care and the Economy | First Five Years Fund

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