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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

03/31/17

Fifty years ago on April 4, 1967, our prophet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the historic speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” at New York City’s Riverside Church. It was his first major public antiwar speech and a powerful warning that a rise in racial hatred, militarism and violence...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care

03/30/17

My values and perspectives on life have been heavily influenced by my mother—a woman of no formal academic education but whose wisdom surpasses that of many. She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and as a single mother she fought hard to give her 2 daughters the opportunities that she...

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Zulayka Santiago, MPA

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

03/29/17

President Trump’s address to Congress last month gave us in the human needs community much to smack our heads about. As the Coalition on Human Needs' Debbie Weinstein noted in this piece about Trump’s false promises, he promised better health care while working to repeal the ACA; thanks in part to...

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Lecia Imbery

Radio!

Podcast

03/29/17

Special guests on the #Radio show this week include: Dayna Farris-Fisher, Cancer Survivors Network, @ PPact ; Julie Morgenstern, award winning author, @JulieMorgenstrn ; Lois Frankel, United States Representative, @RepLoisFrankel ; Bill Finkbeiner, political analyst, @BillFinkbeiner ‏ HOW TO LISTEN...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Food!

03/29/17

Something often heard from conspiracy theorists but not taken seriously is the idea that American news was being manipulated. Apparently, it is a tactic once used by intelligence agencies and now with the amount of control the public has over global media, “fake news” has become a commercial...

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Rebecca Johnson

Health Care

03/28/17

The phones in Congressional Offices are ringing off the hook these days. Some Americans are calling their Representative and Senators for the first time. Some of us are calling more frequently. People are crowding into public meetings. Letters, postcards and faxes are being sent. It is all enough...

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Rylin Rodgers

Family Economic Security MomsRising Near You Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave

03/28/17

Have a #PussyHat in your closet? Well, break it OUT! It’s time to get together, to strategize, to make our voices HEARD, to wear our hats, and… to plan how we can have an impact at the city, state, and national levels to lift women, children, families, and our communities. It’s time to say #...

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Camie Jae Goldhammer

Family Economic Security Food! Military Families

03/27/17

This op-ed originally appeared in t he San Diego Union-Tribune and was authored by Representative Susan Davis and Abby Leibman Imagine serving your country, but needing help to feed your family — and because of a quirk in the law, you don’t qualify for food stamps. This is the harsh, underreported...

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Abby Leibman

Breastfeeding Military Families Paid Family Leave

03/27/17

Paid Family Leave for military families has rapidly changed in the past two years, and the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act brings even more changes. While some of these changes appear to be improvements for military parental leave, several points of the new law have left us with some...

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Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health MomsRising MomsRising Near You

03/27/17

Lead exposure remains a problem across the country and right here in New Hampshire. Every year, several hundred New Hampshire children are found to be poisoned by lead – a dangerous neurotoxin that, even at low levels of exposure, can result in permanent, irreversible harm , such as cognitive...

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