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5 Things You Need to Know this Week   Indianz 1. TRIBAL TAX LEGISLATION: TRIBAL TAX WEBINAR SERIES STARTING TOMORROW JULY 23RD Tomorrow, July 23rd from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time, NAFOA will host the first of three webinars covering the new Tribal Tax Parity legislation, H.R. 8318, introduced in May by Representative Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) in partnership with… Read more »

'Hello From My Black Job': Social Media Claps Back At Trump's Debate Comment With Black Excellence Melissa Noel - Essence From colleges to Capitol Hill, law offices, doctor's offices, and beyond, Black people rebuffed Trump's foolish assumption by highlighting Black excellence. Several moments throughout the first presidential election… Read more »

Baldwin, Moore introduce bill to make mental health services more affordable for new moms Natalie Eilbert and Madison Lammert - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel When the Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Team examines the state’s pregnancy-related deaths, the cause is often behavioral health conditions. In such cases, every death is preventable.   It’s an ongoing crisis that… Read more »

There’s a renewed push in Congress for Medicaid to cover doulas and midwives Darreonna Davis - 19th News   The Mamas First Act, introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Gwen Moore, would make the pregnancy and postpartum services from doulas and midwives reimbursable in an effort to improve access to care.   Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and… Read more »

Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act is Reintroduced John Kelly - The Imprint Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) has been trying to separate poverty from neglect in federal policy for awhile now. She is trying again this year: Moore has re-introduced the Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act, a bill she first offered up in 2018 to revise the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act,… Read more »

Contraception protections are ‘urgent,’ say congresswoman and state lawmaker Baylor Spears - The WIsconsin Examiner  Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore and state Rep. Lisa Subeck (D-Madison) called statutory protections for contraception an “urgent” need on Wednesday. Both lawmakers have pushed for a “Right to Contraception” Act in their respective roles at the federal and state… Read more »

Dem Rep. Reveals Her Real-Time Fact Checks Of Marjorie Taylor Greene At Biden's SOTU Lee Moran - Huffington Post Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) has revealed how she fact-checked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) “in real time,” after she found herself seated next to the far-right lawmaker during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Moore, during an… Read more »

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood CEO invited to State of the Union address Mallory Anderson - WISN  The President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has been invited to the President's State of the Union address by a Wisconsin lawmaker. Tanya Atkinson has been tapped as Congresswoman Gwen Moore's invited guest to the address on Thursday, March 7. "I really was shocked when… Read more »

Op-ed: My Family Struggled With Hunger. If Congress Won’t Fully Fund WIC, Millions More Will, Too Growing up, I was an A student, president of the Student Council, and poor. However, benefits my mother received made me ineligible for free lunch. As a result, I often went without breakfast or lunch entirely. I would find myself eating leftovers from other people’s… Read more »

‘Look out for the needy’: Rep. Gwen Moore reflects on nearly 20 years in Congress By Charlotte Scott and Melody Kloepfer - Spectrum News WASHINGTON – Representative Gwen Moore of Milwaukee was elected to Congress in 2004, becoming the first, and to this day only, Black person to represent Wisconsin in Washington. She reflected on her victory almost two decades ago.  What… Read more »