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10/13/17

This is part two of a two-part series on the Muslim community in Puerto Rico. Missed Part 1? Read it here . There are conflicting reports coming from the news media and the White House about the current situation in Puerto Rico, a territory of the US. Usually when any natural disaster strikes on US...

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Wendy Diaz

Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget

10/13/17

A National Public Radio story this week described a visit to Escuela Gaspar Vila Mayans, a public elementary school in the Rio Piedras neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico: “‘PRESENTE!!!’ about 40 kids shout on cue — they’re the ones who are able to be present. More than three quarters of the...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Food! Gun Safety Health Care

10/13/17

It's Friday the 13th! And just like a low-grade horror flick, the zombie-ish attacks on healthcare just keep coming. We fought to defend affordable healthcare for our families over and over again, and we won't stop now. Please take urgent action on the President's new Executive Order at the top of...

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Karen Showalter

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

10/12/17

When my husband and I married in 2006 we were anxious to start a family and were intent on raising our kids to be fluent in English and Spanish. We had strong ideas on how we would accomplish this, and after all, since we are both native speakers of our respective languages we figured it would be...

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Laura Garcia

Health Care MomsRising

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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