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It has been an exciting week for parental support and maternal health.
As the Biden administration and new congress begin to settle in, it's clear there is a growing focus on motherhood. Earlier this week, the Black Maternal Health Momnibus was reintroduced by Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, Congresswoman Alma Adams, Senator Cory Booker, and other members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus.
Read MoreDid you know there are 25 Black women currently serving in U.S. Congress? We are featuring them in recognition of Black History Month - these women are MAKING history.
Many of them are leading key caucuses and committees including:
Read MoreLast month, the Biden Administration released a $1.9 trillion proposal to support Americans and the economy entitled, “American Rescue Plan”. The proposal is a welcomed sign of hope for the millions of mothers across the nation who have found their physical, psychological, and financial well-being hanging in the balance. There is no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has put a disproportionate amount of strain on mothers. The pandemic has highlighted for the nation what many mothers already knew—women in the United States bear the brunt of balancing work and family obligations. Research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that mothers working full-time spend 50% more time each day caring for children versus full-time working fathers. Mothers need support and the American Rescue Plan includes several provisions to assist mothers and their children during this unprecedented time in our nation’s history.
Read MoreIn December Congress unveiled its COVID relief stimulus package (called the Stimibus since it addresed both the annual Omnibus budget bill and the COVID stimulus). The package scratched the surface of meeting the needs of mothers in the United States - who clearly have taken a significant portion of the brunt of the pandemic harm.
Read MoreThis article first appeared in Forbes.
While 2020 will be remembered as the year of a global pandemic, civil unrest, and a historic national election, it should also be recognized as the year of the mother. From a public declaration in January to $10 billion in childcare funding in December, here's a comprehensive timeline of how working mothers affected 2020.
Read MoreA Mom Congress team member, Alice Lu, has been working directly with the Surgeon General’s office to address maternal mortality, including maternal suicide. We will continue to share updates on how this work is progressing through the online community (where we will also discuss where we see gaps in the plan).
Read MoreDo you believe in the power of moms, and that motherhood deserves its own AARP?
We do too. We believe it’s time for Mom Congress to GO BIG (and no we aren’t going to go home!) in 2021 as moms need us now more than ever to address critical issues on capitol hill, like access to safe and affordable child care, preventing preventable maternal deaths, and driving for societal support of motherhood.
Read MoreIt’s time to Act to Save and Support Mothers, it’s time to #UseYourMomVoice:
With a few clicks of a button, you can write to your Senators and tell them to immediately pass HR 4996, the Helping MOMS Act.
The bill allows states to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to a full year.
Read MoreAs the presidential election dust begins to settle, the dust has also settled around the Senate and House of Representative seats - that is, except for Georgia.
The Senate race was extraordinarily close in Georgia, leading to a runoff election on January 5, where the state’s two Senate seats are still up for grabs.
Read MoreWomen make up a significant portion of the labor force. Their employment is critical to the U.S. economy.
64% of non-Black mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in their households.
84% of Black mothers are the primary or co-breadwinner in their households.
1 in 5 working-age adults is now unemployed because COVID upended their child care arrangements according to a recent Census Bureau and Federal Reserve study.
U.S. Mothers are facing a crisis. Prior to COVID motherhood was difficult in the U.S. The pandemic has forced women to be a parent, teacher and employee at the same time, forcing many to leave the workforce.
Read MoreLast night, Friday, Oct 2, the Democrat-led House moved forward to pass an updated version of the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act as prior relief expired at the end of July.
Read MoreThe House of Representatives passed two maternal health bills endorsed by Mom Congress.
On Sept. 21, the House passed H.R. 4995, the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act of 2020. The bill would provide funding for maternal health care providers to receive implicit bias training, funding for pregnancy medical homes and funding for other activities to address maternal health disparities.
Read MoreThe Senate HEALS Act (Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools) introduced in late July by Republicans, is a package of eight bills serving to provide relief to individuals and families impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Mom Congress is invested in several topics addressed in these bills including mental health and childcare relief.
Read MoreJuly was first declared as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in 2008, but this year the mental health advocacy community began adopting a new empowering term “Black, Indigenous and People of Color” to replace the word minority.
Mental Health America explains the change as follows:
“The continued use of “minority or marginalized” sets up BIPOC communities in terms of their quantity instead of their quality and removes their personhood…The word “minority” also emphasizes the power differential between “majority” and “minority” groups and can make BIPOC feel as though “minority” is synonymous with inferiority.
Read MoreMom Congress partner MomsRising hosted a virtual roundtable discussion on Friday addressing what is worrying moms throughout the US - childcare in the COVID-19 era.
Congressman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), opened the virtual gathering citing a timely PBS News Hour piece that aired the night before addressing the very issue at hand.
Neal, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, hosted the talk attended by Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (D-CT) - a working mother and former ‘Teacher of the Year’, Working Mom and Food Blogger Deb Perelman - who authored the recent New York Times Op Ed on parenting during the pandemic, and Moms Rising Members and working mothers Julie Gross of Michigan and Diana Limongi of a New York.
Mom Congress Members: read the full blog post here.
Read MoreThe HEROES ACT (H.R. 6800, The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) was introduced by the 116th Congress on May 21, 2020.
Read MoreIn late June the Trump administration requested the Supreme Court repeal the Affordable Care Act noting it infringes on the authority states should have to govern health care delivery. (This is a blog by a Mom Congress Coalition member organization, HealthyWomen.)
Read MoreTo ourselves and to each other. I am not good right now. I am struggling. How can anything I say or offer be of any value right now? What message can I possibly deliver to you that will not ring hollow? I am desperately trying to find where I fit in all of this current chaos; we all are.
Read MoreI should be in DC right now, but I’m not. 2020 was to be our year—the Year of the Mother— coupled with the centennial of our winning the right to vote. We had some celebrating to do.
I keep looking at the calendar and seeing the words “MOM CONGRESS” at the top. I didn’t delete it. I like the reminder. It reminds of normalcy, of passion and “what if”s.
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