🎉100K DACA recipients can now access health insurance! This new rule grants them the opportunity to enroll in the Affordable Care Act, ensuring equitable health care access and recognizing their invaluable contributions to our nation. unidosus.org/press-releases…

People with #DACA are our neighbors, family and friends. Everyone deserves access to healthcare #ProtectFamilies

Exciting news! The Biden Admin finalized regulations today that will expand health care access for about 100K people with #DACA . Thanks to the 400+ PIF members who joined us in pushing the Administration to #ProtectFamilies . pifcoalition.org/news/new-biden…

Seizing Opportunities & Building Power! Here are highlights about making a difference through community engagement from advocates, organizers, and policymakers driving change for children and families. #Advocacy #CareCantWait fcd-us.org/5-ways-to-succ…

This is spot-on, and as Adriana Cadena's letter in Washington Post Opinions urges, 'Our national and state leaders must not tolerate this abject failure. And if they do, we must find new leaders.' #ProtectFamilies

Jailing/fining people for sleeping outside is not the solution to rising levels of homelessness—housing is. Expanding rental assistance can help close the widening gap between incomes and rents. More from Peggy Bailey (@peggybaileydc.bsky.social) and Anna Bailey cbpp.org/blog/solutions…

'A survey of Spanish speakers in immigrant families found two-thirds of them knew little or nothing about reenrollment requirements, and most had heard misinformation about Medicaid'.

Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition Catalyst Miami WeCount!

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ICYMI: How are Medicaid policy choices widening the health equity gap? What should federal & state policymakers do to #ProtectFamilies ? Read Adriana Cadena's letter in Washington Post Opinions to find out. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

PEBT is open to kids regardless of immigration status, and using PEBT has no effect on future immigration applications. RT to #ProtectFamilies .

NEW: KFF survey finds that LGBTQ+ people are twice as likely to experience discrimination in health care.

Expanding essential health benefits to include things like gender-affirming care is crucial to addressing these inequities. thehill.com/policy/healthc…

“Summertime can be the hungriest time for Alabama children. By investing in Summer EBT, policymakers can take an important step toward addressing that problem,” Arise’s Carol Gundlach and Feeding Alabama’s Laura Lester write in Alabama Daily News. #alpolitics aldailynews.com/op-ed-fund-sum…

CA is the first state in the U.S. to expand Medicaid to all qualifying adults regardless of immigration status. Now, health equity advocates say the next step is expanding Covered California to undocumented adults by passing a bill known as #Health4All . eltimpano.org/health/bill-wo…

How are Medicaid policy choices widening the health equity gap? What should federal & state policymakers do to #ProtectFamilies ? Read Adriana Cadena's letter in Washington Post Opinions to find out. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Facts matter: Immigrants aren't just a vibrant part of our society; they're also major contributors to our economy.

They pay 31% of total taxes, spanning federal, state, and local, while representing only 13.5% of the population. 📈💵

#ImmigrantsAreEssential

Many thanks to @CRampell for a candid look at the brutal reality of Medicaid “unwinding” in her April 6 op-ed, Adriana Cadena of Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition writes.

From a health equity perspective, the news is catastrophic. wapo.st/4ax3eDk

Let's celebrate the 7th annual #BlackMaternalHealth Week and the movement to change the state of #BlackMaternalHealth !

Founded and led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, #BMHW24 is an exciting week of activism, awareness, & community-building.

As immigrants age, they should have the same access to financial security as people born in the U.S.—but their income takes a downward turn because they lack retirement benefits.

Everyone should be able to retire with dignity, no matter their status.
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Shoutout to our partners at National WIC Association on this big win for kids & families! And a reminder from USDA Nutrition that moms & babies of all immigration statuses can qualify under US law & using WIC has no effect on immigration status or applications: fns.usda.gov/non-citizen-co….

'In so many ways, noncitizens are a net plus for our nation and its evolving economy' — CHIRLA & Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy in the Los Angeles Times. #ProtectFamilies latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Check out our convo with Matt Robison on the detrimental impact the ending of continuous Medicaid coverage is having on immigrant families. Thank you Leo Cuello of Georgetown Center for Children and Families for working with Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition to #ProtectFamilies