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09/20/16

When I was thirty and working as a media relations director, my therapist — a wise soul who coached me on stress management and how to understand the connection between my thoughts and my mood- – stopped me dead in my tracks one day with the words, “Beware of a sense of urgency.” My initial...

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Renee Trudeau

Food! Health Care Military Families

09/19/16

Important and small changes need to be made to TRICARE so all military kids can get the medical care and food they need!

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Amethyst Kurbegov

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

09/18/16

In July, the DC Council recessed for the summer, leaving business unfinished on the Universal Paid Leave Act. At the time, the Washington Post's Aaron Davis reported that parents should "go ahead and have that baby — paid family leave isn’t coming to D.C. soon," a burdensome proposition when...

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Sara Alcid

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

09/16/16

Poverty data just released by the U.S. Census Bureau reveal child poverty declined last year to 14.5 million poor children from 15.5 million in 2014, one million fewer but still higher than before the recession began in 2007.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Tweetchat

Food!

09/16/16

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, MomsRising is excited to discuss how food and aging play out in the Latino community in the United States, during the September 16, 2016 #FoodFri tweetchat. Our featured guest and co-host, the National Hispanic Council of Aging, will join us to discuss the the...

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Migdalia Rivera

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Realistic & Fair Wages

09/16/16

On Sept. 13, the U.S. Census Bureau released important new data on poverty, median household income, and the number of Americans covered by health insurance. Below is a statement by Deborah Weinstein , executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs , responding to the new data. The official...

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David Elliot

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food!

09/14/16

Of course we know that hunger exists in America – and that an estimated 15.3 million children in our country, or one in five, live in a household where there is a real risk they will go hungry. Often studies of childhood hunger involve very young children – up to five years of age, for example, and...

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David Elliot

Politics & Policy

09/14/16

Recently, I addressed the NC Commission on the Administration of Law & Justice public hearing held in Wilmington, NC, advocating raising the age from 16 to 18 years old for prosecution under the adult justice system. There are only 2 states that prosecute 16- and 17-yr-olds as adults, North...

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Rodney Robbins

Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days

09/13/16

Morristown could become the next municipality in New Jersey to pass paid sick days!

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Sara Alcid

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

09/13/16

This morning, Donald Trump’s campaign announced that it would roll out policy proposals aimed at reducing child care costs and providing new mothers with up to six weeks paid maternity leave . Right now, America’s families and economy are facing a crisis. So it’s good, but not surprising to see...

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