Demand Money and other Resources for Unwaged Caregivers, Our Families & Communities

-Unwaged primary caregivers in the home must receive COVID-19 relief money. And
we join the global call for a Care Income Now
-Eliminate all work requirements and time limits and increase benefit levels
-Ongoing, fully refundable child tax credits (available for anyone regardless of
income or lack of income)
-Extend fully refundable tax credits to those caring for other dependents as well as
those caring for children
-Provide cash relief directly to victims of domestic violence and/or rape and other
sexual abuse
-Emergency cash assistance must be paid on top of any public benefits
-All SNAP (food stamps) recipients must be eligible for emergency assistance and all SNAP benefits increased
-Comprehensive, high quality healthcare, free of cost to all, regardless of immigration status
-Stimulus payments to individuals must be protected from private creditors
-Make price-gouging illegal

KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER
-Stop removing children from the home because their mothers are poor or victims of domestic violence
-Return children home immediately where the goal is already reunification
-Stop the clock on adoption and termination of parental rights
-Maintain and extend in-person visitation
-Release all children detained at the border and in ICE detention to their families
domestic violence
-Stop deportations and ICE raids
-Provide rent forgiveness, and make housing, including vacant housing and
buildings where needed, available
-Stop all utility shutoffs including water and return service immediately to all whose
utilities have been shut off

OUR COMMUNITIES & ENVIRONMENT
-Provide free broadband and computers for low income families with children and for
elderly and/or disabled people
-Provide uninterrupted resources for families with special needs children and those
in ESL
-Mothers and other primary caregivers who have been criminalized must be released from prisons and jails
and provided with needed benefits and resources
-The right to women’s health services, including those that ensure the right to
reproductive choice, must be protected
-Stop industry, farming and military practices that pollute the environment and are
destructive to people’s health