How the Care Movement is Organizing Against Devastating Federal Tax and Budget Cuts

A stated priority of the new Administration and Congress is to enact massive tax cuts disproportionately benefiting wealthy individuals and corporations. Proposals to pay for these tax cuts include substantial budget cuts and structural changes to Medicaid, Head Start, food and housing assistance, and other vital programs. These budget cuts would also shift large costs onto states, further undermining family health and income security. The impacts will cut across generations, reverse gains for women, children, older adults, people with disabilities, and workers, and hinder future federal public investments in equitable child care, paid leave, and aging and disability care.

The Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund, Economic Opportunity Funders, ECFC and co-sponsoring philanthropic partners hosted a briefing on the devastating impact of federal tax cuts on women, children, older adults, and people with disabilities and how the care movement is organizing to resist them.

Speakers helped us consider how a cross-issue, cross-generational state and federal movement is raising the voices of the families whose lives and livelihoods are at stake, and how philanthropy can engage at this moment.

Speakers:

• Alison Friedman Phillips, The Women’s Foundation of Colorado
• Amy Matsui, National Women’s Law Center
• Anna Shireen Wadia, Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund
• Jaime Worker, Caring Across Generations

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