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What's in the Revised Build Back Better Package ?

10/28/2021

Our economic recovery depends on addressing longstanding discrimination and barriers that have hampered women—including women of color—from fully participating in the labor force.

Based on the White House summary released today, the following is a summary of what we're celebrating in the revised Build Back Better plan. Please note that we recognize there is obviously more work to be done to address the economic and climate crises impacting our communities, and many desperately needed provisions are not included.

Expansion of Affordable Health Care

Strengthen the Affordable Care Act and reduce premiums for 9 million Americans.
Close the Medicaid coverage gap, leading 4 million uninsured people to gain coverage by expanding federal Marketplace eligibility for people in non-expansion states through 2025.
Expand Medicare to cover hearing benefits.
Makes a historic investment in maternal health including mandating 12 month postpartum coverage through Medicaid.
Option for states to provide Medicaid coverage for folks leaving prison or jail 30 days pre-release.

Investments in Children & Caregiving

Provide universal and free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds, the largest expansion of universal and free education since states and communities across the country established public high school 100 years ago.
Provide more than 35 million households up to $3,600 (or $300 per month) in tax cuts per child by extending the American Rescue Plan’s expanded Child Tax Credit
Promote nutrition security to support children’s health by expanding free school meals to 8.7 million children during the school year and provide a $65 per child per month benefit to the families of 29 million children to purchase food during the summer.
High-quality, affordable care for elder Americans and people with disabilities in their homes.

Improve Economic Security

Extend the expanded Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for around 17 million low-wage workers.
Make a historic investment in rental assistance, expanding vouchers to hundreds of thousands of additional families.
Includes one of the largest investments in down payment assistance in history, enabling hundreds of thousands of first-generation homebuyers to purchase their first home and build wealth.
Will create more equitable communities, through investing in community-led redevelopments projects in historically under-resourced neighborhoods and removing lead paint from hundreds of thousands of homes.

Combat the Climate Change Crisis

Target incentives to grow domestic supply chains in solar, wind, and other critical industries in communities on the frontlines of the energy transition.
Deliver substantial consumer rebates and ensure middle class families save money as they shift to clean energy and electrification.
Create a new Civilian Climate Corps – with over 300,000 members that look like America. This diverse new workforce will conserve our public lands, bolster community resilience, and address the changing climate, all while putting good-paying union jobs within reach for more Americans.
Provide resources to farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners, supporting their efforts to reduce emissions.

Modernize & Improve Immigration Laws

Invests $100 billion in immigration to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants.
Reduces backlogs, expands legal representation, and makes the asylum system and border processing more efficient and humane.

Fully Funded by Making the Wealthy Make Their Fair Share

No one making under $400,000 will pay a penny more in taxes.
Includes a new surtax on the income of multi-millionaires and billionaires – the wealthiest 0.02% of Americans. It would apply a 5% rate above income of $10 million, and an additional 3% surtax on income above $25 million.
Stop large, profitable corporations from paying zero in tax and tax corporations that buyback stock rather than invest in the company.
Stop rewarding corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas.
Creates a fairer tax system through transformation investments in the IRS:
- hiring enforcement agents who are trained to pursue wealthy evaders, modernizing outdated IRS technology
- investing in taxpayer service, so regular Americans can get their questions answered and access to the credits and benefits they are entitled to.

Taken together, the Build Back Better Agenda and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will make critical investments we need to build our economy and our communities back better than ever.

We know there are key provisions that have been taken out of the plan like paid family medical leave but we are continuing to fight to ensure state and national leaders advance the policies to improve women's health, safety, and economic security.

Take a moment to call your congressional representatives and tell them you support the Build Back Better agenda as released today.

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Wisconsin Republicans Must Stop Playing Political Games with Women’s Health

10/8/2021

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Wisconsin Republicans Must Stop Playing Political Games with Women’s Health
So-Called “Pro-Life” Caucus Refuses to Care About Health & Lives of Wisconsinites

MADISON – As residents of our state continue to struggle under the weight of the still raging COVID pandemic, the State’s legislative majority insists on putting politics before people. Instead of prioritizing legislation that would immediately improve the health, lives and economic security of Wisconsin families, leaders in the State Capitol choose to spend their days pushing an extreme political agenda completely out of touch with voters.

“It’s infuriating to watch the legislative majority in our state rush through dangerous policies under a so-called “Time for Life” agenda,” notes Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health Executive Director Sara Finger. “It’s time that we call out the hypocrisy and recognize how little the GOP actually cares about the health and lives of Wisconsin women and their families.”

While a growing list of positive, evidence-based bills are blatantly ignored, the Republican majority in the State Senate and State Assembly are making clear choices indicating where their priorities lie. The following is a list of powerful policies available now for our legislature to take up and pass if they authentically cared about the lives of Wisconsin women and babies:

“If those who wear the “pro-life” badge so proudly really cared about life, they would stop ignoring our infant mortality crisis, they would take the COVID pandemic and science-based public health precautions seriously, and they would increase access to affordable health care in our state,” adds Finger. “And for those fighting so hard for “choice” when it comes to masks and vaccines, Wisconsinites are taking note of every effort these same individuals are making to take away the autonomy and choice of women in our state when it comes to their most fundamental rights.”

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