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05/24/17

Moments ago, the Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the Republican health care plan that was passed by the US House of Representatives. According to the CBO scoring, an estimated 23 million more people would be uninsured under the House legislation than under current law by 2026...

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

05/24/17

Minority health programs cut by 10 percent. Juvenile justice programs cut nearly in half. Housing for the elderly cut by 46 percent; housing for people with disabilities cut nearly 57 percent. Job training to assist ex-offenders reintegrating into their communities cut nearly 28 percent. Out of the...

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Lecia Imbery

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05/24/17

I have had it. This morning I got another GoFundMe request in my inbox. This time it is to support the treatment for the mother of a teammate on my son’s lacrosse team. She will need to have surgery in the next two weeks to remove a brain tumor. I don’t know her well, but I do know she is a single...

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Christina D'Allesandro

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

05/24/17

*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog I remember the first day of 7th Grade when I walked into my Spanish 1 class. We were given new names (Bethany was now...

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Bethany M. Edwards

Realistic & Fair Wages

05/23/17

This Mother's Day month, it's time to get real: We live in a country that often claims to worship mothers but, in truth, becoming a mother puts women at a tremendous lifelong economic risk. In fact, being a mom is now a greater predictor of wage and hiring discrimination than being a woman. You may...

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Health Care Politics & Policy

05/23/17

Awful doesn’t even come close to describing it. The American Health Care Act (AHCA/Trumpcare) bill, which recently passed the U.S. House, is a disaster for women's health. It cuts 24 million people from health care and puts pregnancy—among other things—on the pre-existing condition list, which is...

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Felicia Burnett

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Families & The Federal Budget

05/23/17

President Trump's budget was released today; there are numerous implications for women, moms, and families. This is my analysis of how the budget is affecting the programs that matter most to families. This is the single largest reduction in anti-poverty programs we have seen in a generation. Trump...

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Elyssa Schmier

Gun Safety Maternal Justice

05/22/17

He was just a kid. An honor roll student. A popular football player with a loving family. But no matter what grades he had or sports he played, we know one thing: Jordan Edwards didn't deserve to die. Three weeks ago, police officers arrived at a party that Jordan was leaving with friends. They...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Health Care Maternal Justice

05/22/17

Did you know that The rate of American moms who die in childbirth has been rising for 20 years, worse than any other developed nation? The surge in the rate of babies born dangerously early, is unmatched in the past eight years? There's an epidemic of stress and depression among parents due to the...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

05/22/17

It's GO TIME! We need all hands on deck! We’ve got to protect families in the national budget and push back against the disastrous American Health Care Act. It takes just a minute to have a big impact. So get YOUR week off to a great start, and take action on the important #5Actions below. Thank...

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