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04/18/19

As midwife Jennie Joseph writes, “mothers can suffer and experience the effects of being in a living, breathing, materno-toxic zone all of their own, based on other people’s response or reaction to their race, socio-economic status, citizenship or by being “othered” while pregnant, delivering their baby or in the postpartum year, regardless of location.”

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Red Alert!

MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages

04/18/19

It's coming down to the wire for the Working Families Tax Credit and the Washington State Legislature needs to hear from you. With just two weeks left, time is running out to keep the Working Families Tax Credit part of the conversation in budget negotiations. Click here to send a quick email to...

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Maggie Humphreys

Social & Emotional Development

04/17/19

We are living through trying times as a nation when many are longing for justice. Sometimes it seems, in the words of poet James Russell Lowell, we are watching “Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.” But hope comes every day from the groundswell of people still refusing to...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

04/15/19

Today is Tax Day! Feeling less than inspired by this? That’s because the billionaires and big corporations, not people like you and me, are reaping the benefits of the Trump Tax Scam. That’s why we need to use the media moment of Tax Day to send more letters to the editor this week in your local...

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Elyssa Schmier

Maternal Justice

04/15/19

Speak up, even if your voice is shaking!

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S. Nadia Hussain

Families & The Federal Budget Immigration MomsRising Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Podcast

04/15/19

This week on our #RisersRadio show we have another amazing panel like, the ACLU's Manar Waheed, with whom we cover how to BAN the bans and ways to work for fair treatment of all immigrant families. We get the inside scoop on how taxes can be used for good (and bad) with Amy Matsui and hear from...

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Amber Dorsey

Health Care

04/15/19

Medicaid helps families weather the storm during times of need—whether it be during a health care crisis or a time of financial hardship. But in North Carolina, lawmakers have yet to make this critical and often life-saving program available to about half a million low-income uninsured adults. That...

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Felicia Burnett

toddler boy sitting on a bench reading a newspaper

Health Care

04/15/19

It’s common sense: When families have parents who are insured, the entire family’s health and economic security improves. As moms and dads, we get it. But some of our state lawmakers seem to be having a hard time understanding what a difference health coverage through Medicaid expansion could make...

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Felicia Burnett

Medicaid Helps Families Weather The Storm

Health Care

04/15/19

Today is the day! We are joining with thousands of people across North Carolina for a day of action to close the health care coverage gap! Here is what you can do right now to remind lawmakers that “Medicaid helps families weather the storm” and to expand health insurance to low-income uninsured...

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Felicia Burnett

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

04/15/19

MomsRising, together with the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, organized the following sign-on letter for gender justice organizations in support of the Working Families Tax Credit. You can take action in support of the Working Families Tax Credit by sending your state...

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Maggie Humphreys