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Corporations and the rich want Congress to cut healthcare funding to pay for tax cuts. Medicaid supports people from birth to retirement and beyond; it is essential to keeping hospitals open and supporting students at school. Cutting Medicaid will hurt individual patients and entire communities.
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Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel (PSRPs) are essential to Head Start, our preK-12 public schools and our colleges. If passed, the Paraprofessionals and Education Support Staff Bill of Rights (H. Res. 990 and S. Res. 450) would lift up the need for living wages, safe working conditions, respect and dignity. Click "start writing" and tell your lawmakers to pass it now.
Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of the protected areas and sensitive locations memo allowing immigration enforcement actions in schools, college campuses, hospitals, and places of worship is causing concern among our members and broader community. Members of Congress—regardless of party—should urge President Trump to end this terrible anxiety and cruelty by reinstating the protection of schools, hospitals and churches against ICE.
The Equality Act would ensure that LGBTQI+ people can work and live without fear or threat of discrimination. Click "start writing" and tell your elected officials to support the Equality Act.
Extremists across the country have been working to ban books and rewrite history. It is vital to our future that we understand our past. and invest in the educational resources to teach honest history in our schools.