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05/10/18

Know what I want for Mother’s Day? Chocolate, flowers, and ... a fully activated, empowered, growing, vibrant women’s movement to take back our nation. But this isn’t just a dream. We have you covered in the Mother’s Day gift department: You can give chocolate AND social change. Give the new Keep...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

05/10/18

On May 16th, thousands of NC teachers, parents, students, and public school supporters will be headed to Raleigh for the March for Students and the Rally for Respect. Why May 16th? Because it’s the first day of the 2018 legislative session and, as lawmakers reconvene to review the state budget,...

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Beth Messersmith

Childcare & Early Education Food!

05/09/18

Earlier this week, NC Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger commented on the upcoming NC Public Schools Day of Advocacy: “Teacher strikes are illegal in NC, and in some respects what we’re seeing looks like a work slowdown, and looks like a fairly typical union activity, and the people of NC don...

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Jessica Burroughs

Health Care Immigration

05/09/18

If you’ve been following news reports about federal immigration policy, you’ve been busy – there is a lot going on.

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Health Care

05/09/18

The Trump administration proposal to cut $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is ill-advised and reckless. If Congress agrees to this irresponsible cut, children and families across our country will suffer. CHIP is state administered, and it allows children in low- and...

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Immigration

05/08/18

The announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, that the Trump administration will prosecute all asylum-seekers who enter our country and separate all asylum-seeking parents from their children, reflects a breathtaking level of cruelty. Even Sessions concedes that these families are fleeing...

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05/08/18

It's Election Day in NC, and we need all hands on deck! All across the state there are primary races for Congress, the NC General Assembly, sheriffs, school boards, county commissioners, clerks of court, and more. Sadly, turnout is often low in primaries in North Carolina, so your vote has the...

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Beth Messersmith

Health Care

05/08/18

Following the bipartisan agreement earlier this year to extend CHIP funding for ten years, it was more than a bit surprising to hear yesterday that the Trump Administration wants to cut CHIP funds.

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Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

05/08/18

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. -- Gerda Lerner An unexpected source, Steve Bannon, recently declared the certainty of patriarchy’s demise, pronouncing: "The anti-patriarchy movement is going to undo 10,000 years of recorded history." May...

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Carla Goldstein

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

05/08/18

Out of the 181 programs tracked by the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) that assist low-income people, 125 saw funding cuts from FY 2010 to FY 2018 after taking inflation into account. But it wasn’t just inflation eroding the value of the funding. New research by CHN found that more than 40 percent of the programs were cut by 15 percent or more, and nearly 30 percent of the programs were slashed by 25 percent or more. Only 56 programs, or less than one in three, actually received an increase in funding over this time.

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