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09/01/17

Quality, affordable healthcare coverage is incredibly important to families in the U.S. MomsRising has recieved thousands of messages from our volunteers with stories about why the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare matter for the health of their families. This #...

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Isabella Higgins

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Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

09/01/17

Maria Solis, a 28-year-old pregnant mother of three who is married to a US citizen, has spent over four weeks at Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego, California, where she fears miscarrying due to a lack of access to the prenatal care she needs. Detaining her during her immigration proceeding...

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Carolina Rubio-MacWright

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

09/01/17

If you have been following CommuniKids on social media, you are probably aware that we were recently selected by the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) to become a provider of free pre-kindergarten to 3 and 4 year-old children in the District of Columbia. We are proud of...

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Raul Echeverria

Health Care

09/01/17

Slashing funding for the advertising that drives consumers to the health insurance marketplace by 90 percent and gutting funding for the navigators who help people purchase insurance plans is a flagrant attempt to drive down enrollment and to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If it stands,...

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Immigration

09/01/17

Mientras esperamos conocer la decisión de la Casa Blanca acerca del futuro de 800,000 DREAMers, ¡ es muy importante que sigamos haciendo escuchar nuestras voces! Como madres, estamos a favor de la continuación del programa DACA, ya que nosotras sabemos que nuestro país es más fuerte cuando...

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Linda Stone

Childcare & Early Education

09/01/17

As a new school year begins I want to share prayers for our children, all of them, and for caring adults to be God’s hands and feet standing for children everywhere in these very difficult times in our nation and around our shared world. We especially pray for every child living in cities, towns,...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care

08/31/17

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Isabella Higgins

Environmental Health Social & Emotional Development

08/31/17

The natural world is communicating with us all the time, if we would just listen with the softest part of our ear and an open heart. Here’s a meditation to feel that deep and constant connection.

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Anita Sanchez, Ph.D.

Family Economic Security Health Care

08/30/17

What is CHIP? CHIP, which stands for Children’s Health Insurance Program, is a federally-funded state administered program that provides millions of children all over the United States with quality health care coverage. CHIP is crucial, as it helps to cover children who fall into a gap —their...

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Isabella Higgins

Realistic & Fair Wages

08/30/17

Last night, in another shameful action, the Trump administration halted an initiative designed to advance fair pay for women and workers of color. The pay data the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was about to begin collecting was designed to help uncover discrimination by requiring...

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