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07/11/17

As a parent, I know what it is like to be worried about your child’s health and well-being — and to have financial worries on top of that. When I gave birth to my daughter Ella at 28 weeks, she weighed 2 lbs. and 1 oz. She was and is the best thing that has ever happened to us. I had struggled to...

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Meghan Martin

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Gun Safety

07/10/17

The NRA is using dangerous language to rally their members against progressives and people of color. In a vicious and incendiary recruitment ad , filled with images from recent demonstrations, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch tells viewers, “They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their...

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Gloria Pan

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

07/10/17

Welcome to another installment of #MomsReading! In this series, we discuss books and activities that parents and care providers can use to build a child’s social and emotional development. The rest of the posts in the series can be found here . Social-emotional skills support the success of...

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Abbie Gately

Breastfeeding Military Families

07/10/17

One of the things that makes me proud to be a mother of my generation is watching us start to buck the social norms and do whatever it takes in order to get what we want and deserve for our families. All growing up, we were told that as women, we could do whatever we wanted, we could have both a...

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Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC

Paid Family Leave

07/07/17

There has been a video circulating on the Internet. It shows Serena Williams playing in the Australian Open, Gal Gadot doing Wonder Woman reshoots, Alysia Montano racing at U.S. Championships, Beyoncé dancing on the stage, Nur Syryani Mohd Taibi shooting at Olympics, all during their pregnancy. The...

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To-wen Tseng

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget

07/07/17

It is unfathomable to me that week after week I must continue to defend the Medicaid program that for more than 50 years has protected the health and well-being of tens of millions of America’s most vulnerable . We know many of the 37 million children enrolled in Medicaid today are from poor or low...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care Maternal Justice

07/06/17

Cullors Is a Senior Fellow at MomsRising Dedicated to Addressing the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis in the US

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Food! Gun Safety Health Care Maternal Justice

07/06/17

Nothing says summer more than long days, sunshine, and taking action on "hot" issues that really matter to moms and families! And we're here to help. Below please find this week's list of top-priority actions, sure to make you "cool" this week. (We're being a little playful; after all, it's summer...

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Karen Showalter

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

07/05/17

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . Every July 4 th Americans come together to celebrate the promise of our Declaration of...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care

07/05/17

While running for President, Donald Trump asked African Americans, “What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?” As it turns out, one answer is health insurance. The likelihood of having health coverage shouldn’t vary by a person’s race or ethnicity. The Affordable Care Act (ACA)...

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