Builders Like You Just Scored a Huge Legislative Win for New Moms

How a politically diverse group of ordinary citizens extended Medicaid coverage for thousands of low-income mothers, making Wisconsin the 49th state to do so. How they did it.

Builders Weekly Challenge

Has your family (or a family you know) struggled to get Medicaid coverage after having a baby? Reply to this email and let us know — or forward it to someone who needs to see it.

Builders in Action

Miss Oklahoma State Fair is taking the Builders Movement into classrooms. Miriam Lowe is visiting schools across Oklahoma to teach students about our 4 C’s: curiosity, compassion, courage, and creativity. Building a brighter future.

Builders Buzz

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin’s fight for new moms just made history—and Builders helped make it happen. After years of cross-partisan grassroots advocacy, Governor Tony Evers signed legislation extending postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to a full year for thousands of low-income Wisconsin women, thanks in no small part to the citizen coalition Builders helped build. Read the full article.

14 Wisconsinites from totally different backgrounds built the coalition that changed everything. When WKOW asked how Wisconsin finally got postpartum Medicaid extended, the answer was Builders. People like Ali Muldrow, a mother of three who said it was “very easy to see myself in women who maybe didn’t identify with me politically.” Watch the story from WKOW.

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