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10/12/17

President Trump is once again working to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and playing politics with the health of America’s families. The heartless executive order he signed today will undo critical parts of the ACA that have made it easier for individuals to access affordable health care,...

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Immigration Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

10/12/17

Conversation on immigration detention with the ACLU of San Diego & Women's Refugee Commission

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S. Nadia Hussain

Family Economic Security MomsRising Politics & Policy

10/12/17

Yesterday, California Gov. Jerry Brown took a major step to avoid compounding penalties for struggling families by signing SB 190, which ends the collection of administrative fees from families whose children end up in the juvenile justice system. Juvenile administrative fees are often devastating...

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

10/12/17

The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ensures that we always give our kids a winning hand of lifelong health! Republicans and Democrats created this critically important program in 1997 because it was a low-cost, sound investment in our children's health and future—and they were right !...

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Isabella Higgins

Family Economic Security Health Care Maternal Justice Open Flexible Work Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

10/11/17

For parents of children with emotional disabilities, sending our kids to school is a dangerous exercise in Russian roulette with the school-to-prison pipeline.

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Yamani Yansa

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

10/11/17

*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog We are a bilingual family and proud of it. Spanish and English are spoken equally in our home and we knew when we had our...

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Heather Barradas

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

10/11/17

Many are celebrating the Affordable Care Act’s survival of yet another attempt at repeal, but it is important to note that the health insurance of millions of children is still in danger. On September 30th, Congress allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire. The day came and...

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Isabella Higgins

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

10/11/17

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

10/11/17

Over the past few weeks, MomsRising.org members have taken action and signed our letters to the U.S. Congress telling them to protect moms, kids, and families in the national budget and tax packages. Together, we have been a powerful force for families! We collected over 44,000 signatures from moms...

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Elyssa Schmier

Military Families

10/11/17

Voice. We all have one, it’s time we use it. We must speak out about the injustices and dangers the Trump administration poses from attacks on our healthcare, our immigrant and LGBTQ communities, and our reproductive rights, to our disastrous foreign policy. And it is that latter point that I want...

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