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Food Security for Immigrant Families During COVID-19 Tweetchat

03/31/21

On Friday, March 12th, we had an exciting bilingual #FoodFri Tweetchat about Food Security for Immigrant Families During COVID-19. Immigrants are an essential part of our country and workforce. We focused our discussion on what food assistance programs are available to immigrant and mixed-status...

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Hanna Addis

Paid Family Leave Podcast Realistic & Fair Wages

03/30/21

On the latest episode of Breaking Through radio podcast Kristin and guests cover what’s happening in the nation’s capitol and the benefits coming the public’s way due to the passage of the American Rescue Plan. Tune in to hear the latest on how we can all best push for progress, pay equity, and...

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Amber Dorsey

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

03/29/21

We are moving full steam ahead to make sure our elected leaders pass universal childcare, paid leave for all, help for struggling families and working people, and create a fairer tax code for women, moms, families, and everyone impacted by structural racism. But all of that takes $$$. That’s why it...

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Elyssa Schmier

Gun Safety MomsRising Podcast Politics & Policy

03/25/21

On the radio show this week Kristin and company cover what’s in the American Rescue Plan for YOU and how you can access those benefits. They discuss the Equality Act that’s moving forward in Congress and what you can do to help make this critically important bill pass. They also touch on how you...

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Amber Dorsey

Family Economic Security MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages

03/24/21

On average, a woman working full-time, year-round in the United States must work for 15 months to get paid as much as a man working full-time, year-round earns in 12. It will take her 50 years to get paid what he earns in just 40 – for Black women, it’s 66 . The persistent lifetime earnings gap...

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Meagan Crowe

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

03/24/21

The alarm bells are ringing, loudly, but we have smart, strong, and incredibly popular policy solutions waiting to be passed.

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Sara Alcid

Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Health Care

03/19/21

This week has been tough. The Atlanta shooting that resulted in the death of eight people -- including six Asian American women -- again proves that Americans can no longer wait for action against gun violence and hate. We stand against Anti-Asian hate and for gun control. The time for action is...

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Sue Anne Reed

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Cut-out family with kidney beans as kidneys

Health Care

03/18/21

When I was 17, I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. Twenty-two years later, I’m now facing End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and working to figure out how to balance my declining health while working full-time and being a single mom. I’m incredibly lucky to have flexible work hours and good...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care

03/17/21

Exciting news! Under the new American Rescue Plan that passed in Congress last week, North Carolina can now expand health care coverage for low-income adults AND bring an estimated $1.7 billion to our state. This couldn’t have come at a better time, as this has been a long and difficult year...

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Felicia Burnett

President Biden and Vice President Harris

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

03/17/21

MomsRising members made over 230,000 constituent contacts with members of Congress in support of this bill. Why? Because as we know the pandemic is having an outsized impact on women and moms, with women and moms of color experiencing compounded health and economic harms due to structural racism. And we know the American Rescue Plan will be a tremendous help and also a powerful step toward the transformational, permanent, and universal change we all need to lift our economy, our businesses, and our families.

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