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Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

04/08/16

“I was in Newark and Harlem just this week. And I walked into the homes of welfare mothers. I saw them in conditions—no, not with wall-to-wall carpet, but wall-to-wall rats and roaches. . . . [One mother] pointed out the walls with all the ceiling falling through. She showed me the holes where the...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

04/07/16

Investing in housing and renters' assistance improves the health outcomes of infants and children and lowers healthcare spending.

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Lecia Imbery

Food!

04/07/16

Guessing games are fun, but not when it comes to knowing what's in the food I give my kids. DYK that a pecan roll at a popular coffee shop has almost DOUBLE the calories of a chocolate pastry? Or that a turkey sandwich at a popular convenience store has nearly TWICE the calories as a beef burrito...

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Karen Showalter

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04/07/16

You know where MomsRising gets its best ideas? YOU! When you share your ideas, experiences, your creativity, and your energy with our movement, you make America a better place for moms and families, for us all! That’s why we’re coming to you for ideas for what should be on the next MomsRising...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

04/06/16

Cross posted from Coalition for Human Needs (CHN). Back in February, we at Coalition for Human Needs told you about a tax-dodging scheme that is all too common in this day and age: Pfizer, a U.S. pharmaceutical company and one of the world’s largest, wanted to avoid $35 billion in U.S. taxes on...

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David Elliot

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Family Economic Security

04/05/16

The stories are unbelievable ! A Queens first grader with learning disabilities was handcuffed by police and suspended from school when he became upset while painting an easter egg in class . Alexa Gonzalez, a 12-year-old Queens girl was suspended from school and hauled off in handcuffs for...

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Beatriz Beckford

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

04/05/16

I know there’s a whole lot of yuck happening in national politics right now, but we have good news! In spite of all the yuck, local leaders are doing GREAT things on early learning across the country. Leaders like Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, who is piloting an evidence-based 4-year universal pre-k...

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Jeannina Perez

Radio!

Podcast

04/05/16

We start out the show untangling the Presidential Primary, then move to hearing about the horrible new law passed in North Carolina and what you can do to help fix it. Next we cover the real, modern family story in our nation; and we close the show with an important conversation about drug policy...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

04/05/16

1,000,000 women, mostly mothers are behind bars or under criminal justice supervision in the United States . Two-thirds of the women in federal prisons are serving time for challenges related to nonviolent drug abuse. They need treatment and counseling, not incarceration. Our justice system is...

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Beatriz Beckford

Health Care

04/05/16

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” – Lao Tzu Last weekend my teenager was in total...

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