Posts Tagged ‘#CareIncomeNow’
Movement of Family Caregivers say NO to Trump/Vance Proposal for Families
If the Trump administration and Congress really want to increase the financial wellbeing of mothers and children, they should pass the American Family Act, which has all the components of the expanded Child Tax Credit, restore and increase funding for SNAP and Medicaid and not mandate work to receive benefits. They should pass Rep Gwen Moore’s (D-WI-4) Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act, which counts caregiving as work for the Earned Income Tax Credit. And they should establish a care income that adequately reflects the economic value of the work of all mothers and other family caregivers, rather than use public policy to push a patriarchal agenda that glorifies “traditional families” by punishing single mothers.
Read MoreSIGN Roadmap to Eliminate Poverty – includes UNIVERSAL CARE INCOME
Dear sisters and friends, For the past year we, and many others, have been working with the UN Rapporteur on Poverty and Human Rights on the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth. As you know we have been campaigning for over 50 years for wages for housework, reformulated as a care income. The proposals in the…
Read MoreA proposal for the Special UN Rapporteur on poverty – A care income for all caring work for people and planet
A PROPOSAL FOR THE SPECIAL UN RAPPORTEUR ON POVERTYrelating to all five areas but most especially to social protections, labour andthe care economy, the climate and global solidarity – 30 March 2025 (updated April 26) https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-submissions-roadmap-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth A care income for all caring work for people and planet 1. Increased recognition for caring work In…
Read MoreCare Income Now! Tax Credits for Mothers and other Caregivers – Not Tax Breaks for Billionaires
⏰Action Alert⏰ Tell Congress families need support: Pass the American Family Act and the Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act Mothers and other family caregivers, including those of us who are immigrants, work hard, and our unpaid work contributes $873.50 billion a year to the economy, yet we are denied support and our families are…
Read MoreEvent: London Mining Network on Just Transition
We are speaking at this conference, Saturday 30 November 2.45pm, Bernie Grant Centre, Tottenham N15 4RX. Women are central to a Just Transition, resisting mining, corporate greed, and the state/military interests that back them. GWS will talk about what we’ve learned working with women in farming and mining communities in Thailand, and in India.
Read MoreWhy we support Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Farming: a grassroots rebuttal by Nina López and Selma James
In June 2024, the Global Women’s Strike was invited to speak at two sessions on A Care Income to Protect the Land, the People and the Natural World at the International Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra. At the second session, Swati Renduchintala presented via zoom on Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) and the women’s Self-Help…
Read MoreEvent: London Land Justice Fair, 21 July, 12-6pm
We’ll be running a stall, and a workshop on land use in the women-led natural farming movement in Andhra Pradesh, India. All welcome!
Read MoreWebinar : What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want – findings from international survey, May 11
From March 2022 to May 2023, this survey asked 1065 mothers and other caregivers from different generations and in different countries what they want and need. Assumptions are always being made about this, but in fact caregivers are rarely directly asked about how we spend our time, the resources we have or don’t have, or…
Read MoreWebinar: Compensating Care: How U.S. Policy Can Support Unpaid Family Caregivers
TODAY, May 2 – join us for this pathbreaking one hour webinar on Compensating Care: How U.S. Policy Can Support Unpaid Family Caregivers, Thursday, May 2, 2-3pm Eastern Time, 11am-12noon Pacific Time – It is a joint event by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), Global Women’s Strike & Women of Color/GWS.…
Read MoreIrish Referendum results: not a return to the Ireland of the past, but the rejection of a government which denies its responsibilities.
On 8 March, a government referendum proposed to change the Irish Constitution by extending the definition of the family (Amendment 39) and replacing Article 41.2 on the work of mothers in the home with wording that diminished the State’s obligation to support caring in the home and outside (Amendment 40). The government suffered a comprehensive…
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