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Karla

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mamá | mexicana | immigrant | advocate working on federal child care policy @nwlc.org all posts my own.

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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 21/04/2025
Immigrant women are the cornerstone of our care workforce. From child care to aging and disability care, they hold families together — but Trump’s anti-immigration policies are pushing them to the brink. 
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Four Things You Should Know About How Immigration Impacts Care Work - National Women's Law Center
In the United States, our economy depends on care work, with parents and family caregivers relying on early educators, direct care workers, and other professionals to care for their loved ones so they can participate in the labor force. The care sector, in turn, depends heavily on women, particularly women of color and immigrant women, […]
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
feels so bleak to be sitting on bluesky breathlessly waiting for updates on a cloture vote, clinging to some delusional hope that the government will simply shut down instead of democrats writing a blank check to trump
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Immigrants are essential to our workforce, economy, and unions. New data from Economic Policy Institute shows just how much immigrants contribute to our communities and how Trump’s mass deportation agenda would tank economic growth and harm working people.
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What you need to know about immigrant workers
References American Community Survey (ACS). 1-Year 2023 microdata, Accessed via IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. American Community Survey (ACS). 2019–2023 pooled microdata, Accessed...
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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 04/02/2025
A week after Trump illegally froze federal funding, many Head Start programs are still not able to access the money they need to keep their staff paid and doors open. Children, families, and early educators in communities across the country are the ones left in the lurch.
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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 29/01/2025
They knew this was an illegal and chaotic power grab, and their attempt failed because people said no—in the courts, at work, in the streets, and beyond. This is our reminder: Our outrage matters, and it works. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants
The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.
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Fatima Goss Graves @fatimagossgraves.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
And so the people were reminded they can fight, and they can win. Stay in it, folks. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, in reversal
The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025
M-25-14
MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me
SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13
OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the
President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.
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Melissa Boteach @mboteach.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reminder: The “savings” Trump is finding & the cuts congressional Republicans will seek in their upcoming budget - are taking away healthcare, child care, housing and food TO PAY FOR TAX CUTS FOR BILLIONAIRES & BIG CORPORATIONS.
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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 23/01/2025
Thank you to senators Collins and @lisamurkowski.bsky.social  for putting national security and the safety of our service members—including women—first, and voting NO on Hegseth's nomination. Hegseth is dangerous and unfit to lead. Our service members deserve better.
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Senate advances Hegseth nomination; Collins, Murkowski vote ‘no’
The Senate voted largely along party lines Thursday to advance Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of Defense, brushing aside a litany of misconduct allegations and the ob…
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