Tell your Senators:

Families and Communities need Build Back Better with transformative Social Safety Net Provisions

The House passed the Build Back Better Act in November 2021, positioning this Congress to transform our social safety net. Now the Senate must take this home for American families and communities. 

As legislators review and revise the bill, they narrow the priorities, and we must ensure that Senators pass Build Back Better with an extension of the enhanced Child Tax Credit, which expired in December 2021. We must also defend the proposed investments for childcare, universal pre-K, affordable housing, closing the Medicaid coverage gap, and health care, the House included.

American families and communities are struggling, the pandemic has exacerbated inequity—and Congress should act quickly.

It is time to pass the Build Back Better Act, and it needs to retain the urgent social safety net provisions.

Acting On Multiple Fronts:

UUSJ’s action teams, and many of its allies, are all responding to the legislative moment and focusing on the Build Back Better Act (BBB). Advocates are trying to save this productivity package from faltering, for fear of what it means for our people, communities, and the planet. Each has distinct reasons for engaging and is responding to slightly different needs. And in the background, all are worried about the precedent set with democracy legislation during January.

UUSJ is compelled to provide an opportunity for each team responding to this circumstance, but encourages you to act for all! (Please return to the main webpage.)

For Economic Justice, UUSJ invites you to address the escalating economic inequity in our economy and society by sending this message, which highlights the social safety net elements in BBB.

Feel free to edit the email message. Personalized letters, lifting up the constituent-based witness of need, and moral imperative, are more effective.