Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)

• The Child Tax Credit (People can qualify even if they make zero income!!)
• Extended Unemployment Insurance benefits
• Child care assistance
• EITC expansions & stimulus checks
• Who qualifies for pandemic leave and how
• How to get access to the expanded healthcare coverage
• Home and community-based care services

On the #radio show this week, we cover why the care infrastructure is part of our nations basic infrastructure " and how #CareCantWait; we dive into the power of your story; discuss how you can support the AAPI community and work to stop anti-Asian violence; and explore whats in the #AmericanRescuePlan for families, including those in search of childcare.

*Special guests include: Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Caring Across Generations, @domesticworkers; Justina Chen, award-winning author and Chen & Cragen,@JustinaYChen; U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu, @RepJudyChu; Katherine Gallagher Robbins, CLASP, @CLASP_DC

Recorded April 1,2021 

On the radio show this week we cover whats in the American Rescue Plan for YOU and how you can access those benefits; the Equality Act thats moving forward in Congress and what you can do to help make this critically important bill pass; how you can help stop anti-Asian hate and violence; and we hear about a new initiative called We As Ourselves and discuss the importance of the invest and divest frame as we advance public policies.

*Special guests include: Laura Peralta-Schulte, The Network Lobby, @NETWORKLobby; Kierra Johnson, National LGBTQ Task Force, @TheTaskForce; Jennifer Wang, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, @NAPAWF; and Monifa Bandele, TimesUpNow, We As Ourselves, MomsRising, @TIMESUPNOW, @MomsRising

Date Recorded 3/18/21 

On this radio show we cover how policy relating to the fair treatment of all immigrant families is moving forward and what you can do to help; whats in the American Rescue Plan for YOU!; how and why were finally going to get to paid leave for all; and the ways in which the American Rescue Plan can help businesses.

*Special guests include: Xochil Oseguera, MomsRising MamsConPoder, @MomsRising @MamsConPoder; Amy Matusi, National Womens Law Center, @NWLC; Dawn Hucklebridge, Paid Leave for All; @PaidLeaveforAll; and Ron Busby, US Black Chambers of Congress, @usblackchambers

Date Recorded: 3/11/21 

On the #radio show this week, we cover the power to make change at the city and local levels and how to build the capacity of municipal leaders to develop and sustain early childhood systems that support young children, prenatal through age three and their families; the latest priorities for the Womens March and how YOU can get involved; new polling about the priorities of women and what that means in terms of change in motion at our nations capitol; tips on activism, engagement, and power building with UltraViolet

*Special guests include: Jammie Albert, The National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, @leagueofcities; Tabitha St. Bernard Jacobs, Womens March, @womensmarch; Dr. C Nicole Mason, Institute for Womens Policy Research (IWPR), @IWPResearch; Sonja Spoo, Ultraviolet, @UltraViolet 

On the radio show this week we cover the importance of a caring infrastructure like childcare, paid leave, and longterm care, along with the continued need for fair pay; we also dive into where we were four years ago, where we are now, and what needs to happen to move forward transformative change; next up we discuss the COVID-19 relief package that Biden is pushing and whats in it for you; and we close the show covering the fair treatment of all immigrant families, whats moving in our nations capitol, and what you can do to help.

*Special guests include: Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Caring Across Generations, @domesticworkers; Monifa Bandele, @TIMESUPNOW @MomsRising; Elyssa Schmier, MomsRising, @MomsRising; and Kamal Essaheb, National Immigration Law Center, @NILC.

DATE RECORDED: 1/21/21

On the radio show this week we cover women, the economy and the policies we all need to advance gender justice, racial justice, and economic justice; key opportunities for change in this critical moment in history; and why building democracy is still important, as is keeping our voices raised! 

*Special guests include: Dr. C. Nicole Mason, Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), @IWPResearch; Teresa Younger, Ms. Foundation for Women, @msfoundation; and Jess Morales Rocketto, Care in Action and National Domestic Workers Alliance, @domesticworkers

DATE RECORDED: 2/11/21

On the #RADIO show this week we cover how you can help save democracy and stop voter suppression; we cover the equitable distribution of the vaccine and The Peopless Vaccine project; how you can help increase the minimum wage and move forward paid leave for everyone; and talk about the importance of ending structural racism in policing and getting counselors in schools, not cops.

*Special guests include: Jana Morgan, Declaration for American Democracy, @DFADCoalition; Robbie Silverman, Oxfam America, @OxfamAmerica; Sara Alcid, MomsRising, @MomsRising; and Beatriz Beckford, MomsRising, @MomsRising.