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11/22/19

Editor’s note: The Coalition on Human Needs is part of a coordinated effort to make sure young children are counted accurately in the 2020 Census. As part of this campaign, Count All Kids is focusing on what advocates in some states are doing to ensure an accurate count – and what lessons and...

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David Elliot

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11/21/19

It’s just two weeks until Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3! This may sound like a gimmicky day, but celebrating our local sheroes and, importantly, contributing to lift up our democracy and our families isn’t a gimmick. It’s us together stepping forward to address a national emergency with hope, joy, and...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food!

11/20/19

Trump is ridiculously at it again. It’s only been a few months since President Trump’s last attack on SNAP (or food stamps), but now he’s at it again with his cruel attempts to take food stamps away from struggling families in order to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations — even...

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Elyssa Schmier

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

11/20/19

Can you believe 2019 is almost over? Time flies when you’re busy resisting and persisting! But there’s one thing that truly hasn’t come soon enough – Latina Equal Pay Day.

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Xochitl Oseguera

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Childcare & Early Education Food! Health Care Immigration

11/19/19

The Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) Campaign is dedicated to protecting immigrants and their families’ access to health care, nutrition programs, public services and economic supports. This month we’ve published three new community education resources to give communities the information they...

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Kat Lundie

Gun Safety Maternal Justice

11/19/19

Please join MomsRising's Senior Vice President, Monifa Bandele, on today's webinar hosted by The Justice Collaborative called Transparency For The Police, Transparency for The Courts. She will be joined by State Senator Nancy Skinner (CA, D9), Gabriel Caswell of the CA State Senate Public Safety...

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Diarra Diouf

Gun Safety Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising Podcast Politics & Policy

11/19/19

On the #RADIO show this week we cover how your voice is needed to lift healthcare coverage and the Safe Step Act. And discuss the powerful work of Black Voters Matter. There is some lively conversation on what you can do to stop the unfair cradle to prison pipeline. There’s also discourse on rise...

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Amber Dorsey

Gun Safety Social & Emotional Development

11/18/19

"School shootings" are two words no parent ever wants to hear in the same sentence. But news of these tragic events is now so familiar, the topic is unavoidable. Unlike other conversations you have with your kids about scary stuff in the news , talks about school shootings are much more emotional,...

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Caroline Knorr

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Childcare & Early Education Immigration MomsVote

11/16/19

The headlines this week have been hard. There’s so much need for our voices, and for your voice. So we want to start into the weekend by sharing our gratitude with you for all you’re doing to make our nation a better place for everyone. This week's list of top actions includes urgent calls around...

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Karen Showalter

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11/13/19

When moms rise, BIG things happen. Like igniting democracy! In fact, for the recent elections last week, MomsRising members like you generated a MASSIVE amount of get-out-the-vote energy — by sending thousands upon thousands of hand-written voter postcards to infrequent mom voters, by making...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner