Urge Congress to Invest in Families! Take Action Today!

Urge Congress to Join the Momentum and Invest in Families!

This week, members of Congress passed a 2022 budget resolution setting the stage to adopt a national paid family leave program and make major new investments in child care and pre-K access, long-term care, health care, college affordability, and other essential family economic security needs.

We need these investments to restore economic security for working Americans, provide opportunity for all our young people, create greater gender and racial justice, and build an economy where we can all thrive together. Whats more, all these new and expanded services, along with investments in climate change fighting infrastructure, would be funded by increased taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations.

But Congress must act now to get these key investments across the finish line. The budget resolution gives House and Senate committees just a few weeks to work out the details of what national paid family leave, childcare affordability, free community college, and other key programs will look like – and how much money should be allocated to each. Time is running out to secure these major investments in workers and families.

Urge your member of Congress to take action today!

When families win, we all win!

Subject: Join the momentum and pass an equitable Human and Care Infrastructure package!
Dear Legislator,

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I’m writing to urge you to please pass an equitable Human and Care Infrastructure package that will make major investments in childcare and pre-K access, long-term care, paid family and medical leave, health care, college affordability, and other essential family economic security needs.

Child Care providers and families in Washington state are suffering, with COVID impacts on top of an already unsustainable system. Teachers – who are overwhelmingly female and disproportionately women of Color – make poverty wages. Yet families can’t afford care, and some centers are closing, leaving families out in the cold and keeping mothers from returning to work. We need major federal investments that make affordable childcare and pre-K an entitlement, and that ensure childcare workers receive training and living wages on a par with other comparably credentialed professionals.

We need a national Paid Family & Medical Leave policy that builds on the lessons about equitable access we’ve learned from Washington and other state programs. National PFML must be inclusive, universal, comprehensive, and sufficient to promote equitable health outcomes and family economic security. National PFML must also protect the richer benefits and more responsive delivery systems embodied in the existing comprehensive state PFML programs like Washington’s.

For our entire nation to thrive, we must support policies like childcare and paid family leave that center the real needs of working people. Workers know what they deserve and need - fair wages, paid leave, time to care for their families - and are building momentum behind their demands.

When families win, we all win. Just and equitable childcare and paid leave policies return huge benefits for families, communities and the economy.

The Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI) manages this page. You can contact EOI at info@eoionline.org.

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