Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass paid family/medical leave legislation, expand our Supreme Court, and reform our credit reporting system. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
Moms Rising helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass paid family/medical leave legislation. Yes, Our One True Great and Real American President Joe Manchin famously vetoed paid family leave almost a year ago during Build Back Better Act deliberations, and perhaps worse, suggested it was a stupid idea! This is the same fellow who thought families were spending their expanded Child Tax Credit on drugs, so we should take what he says with a grain of salt, but folks who can’t take care of their kids or their parents or themselves without fear of losing their jobs wouldn’t think it’s stupid! And unpaid leave isn’t enough! Since it’s, you know, unpaid. Labor unions demand paid family/medical leave in their contracts for good reason.
Demand Justice helps you tell your Congressfolk to expand our Supreme Court already. I suppose the right-wing answer to that would be just win more elections already, but you can’t fill Supreme Court openings that don’t exist, and right-wing hypocrisy on this matter is legendary – they wouldn’t let Barack Obama fill the opening left by Antonin Scalia’s death, because TEH PEEPULZ SHOULDZ DECIDEZ!!!!, but then filled the opening left by Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death mere weeks before the 2020 election, the people, apparently, be damned. And we have every reason to believe the six-member right-wing majority on the Court’s reign of terror is just beginning – by the time they’re done, nobody will have any rights at all. Unless we get some more liberals up there.
Finally, the Daily Kos Liberation League helps you tell Congress to reform our credit reporting system in America. They suggest more than a few good reforms, but my favorite one is the public credit scoring entity; that’s bound to work better than the private ones! Remember all those years they said government was stupid and only private corporations knew what they were doing? Yeah, that was a load of horsedoodle – now private credit reporting agencies lie to you about how they’re arriving at their credit scores or simply giving you inaccurate scores, and when private corporations hurt us, our government has to step in on our behalf. Otherwise, why are we paying taxes?
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