Urge Your Representative to Support the American Families Plan
By MUUSJN on Monday, July 12th, 2021
Call Your U.S. Representative
Click HERE to Get Name & Phone # of Your U.S. Representative
Thank or Urge Your Rep. to Co-sponsor the American Families Act
BACKGROUND
On April 28th, the Biden Administration unveiled its American Families Plan, a bold $1.8 trillion package of proposals that would bring essential benefits to families with a special impact on women and young persons. The package would be partly financed by higher taxes on wealthy Americans.
During June, MUUSJN’s Interfaith Reproductive Justice Coalition voted to support and advocate for the American Families Plan (H.R. 928) that would provide:
- comprehensive medical and family leave;
- expanded child care;
- universal pre-school for three and four year old children;
- improvements in tax credits for low income families that could cut child poverty in half;
- improvements in the Earned Income Tax Credit that benefits low income workers;
- provides two years of free community college education;
- eliminates a lifetime ban on access to receiving SNAP (Food Stamps);
- helps dreamers get two years of community college;
- modernizes state unemployment insurance systems; and
- makes health insurance more affordable, including maternal health.
For more information on the American Families Plan, click HERE to read a concise article written by the Center for Law and Social Policy.
H.R. 928, introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CA), is currently in the House Ways and Means Committee where it has gathered 167 co-sponsors, including the following Michigan Representatives: Rashida Tlaib; Brenda Lawrence; Dan Kildee (a member of the Ways and Means Committee) and Debbie Dingell.
Click HERE to Get Name & Phone # of Your U.S. Representative
If your Representative is one of the above co-sponsors tell them THANK YOU!
If not, urge your Representative to become a sponsor of the American Families Act.
Thanks for taking action!
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