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

This funder briefing explored the devastating impact of federal tax and budget cuts on women, children, older adults, and people with disabilities and how the care movement is organizing to resist them.

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.

Guest speakers shared 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
• Jaimie Worker, Caring Across Generations

Links to the webinar recording, slides, and related resources can be found here. 

Hosted by: Care for All with Respect and Equity Fund, Economic Opportunity Funders, Tax Equity Funders Network, Women’s Funding Network

Cosponsored by: Better Taxes for a Better America, Children, Youth & Family Funders Roundtable, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Grantmakers In Aging, Grantmakers In Health, Grantmakers for Thriving Youth