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05/11/17

Today, MomsRising volunteer, Natalie, spoke on Capitol Hill about why quality, affordable health care coverage is important to her family and our country. Here is her powerful story: "When my husband and I decided to start a family nine years ago, we were excited about our future and never even...

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Felicia Burnett

Paid Family Leave

05/10/17

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re well aware that the United States is the only industrialized nation without a national paid parental leave program. Across the country, 88 percent of working women do not have access to even a single day of paid maternity leave. In the absence of paid...

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Maddie Granato

Health Care

05/10/17

Today, MomsRising volunteer, Cyndi, testified to Congress at a hearing on Capitol Hill about why quality, affordable health care coverage is important to her family and our country. Here is her powerful story: " I come from a background of generational poverty in the hills of southern Indiana. My...

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Felicia Burnett

Politics & Policy

05/10/17

Recently, I joined more than 1,000 people in Park Slope, Brooklyn at a community meeting convened to resist Trump’s agenda. One of the speakers was Hebh Jamal, a 17-year-old Muslim student who led a citywide student walkout to protest the travel ban and Trump’s anti-immigrant policies. She’s also a...

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Gayle Kirshenbaum

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05/09/17

By Ahna Bizjak, Parent and Former PTO President, Oregon School District, WI When it comes to learning healthy habits, parents are children’s first teachers. From cooking nutritious meals at home to being a role model for staying physically active, we lay the foundation for our children’s future...

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Ahna Bizjak

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05/09/17

Moms with Strollers, Marching Band to Deliver Mini Statue of Liberty Figures to Trump, Sessions and U.S. Senate on Friday to Raise Importance of Freedom, Liberty and Justice for Our Children’s Future On Friday, May 12th, ahead of Mother's Day, members of MomsRising and other groups will deliver...

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05/09/17

With Mother’s Day around the corner, we find these lines from Emma Lazarus’s poem, The New Colossus, referring to the Statue of Liberty, incredibly inspiring: “Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch , whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care

05/09/17

It’s an all hands on deck moment with health care access under direct attack. Tomorrow, MomsRising volunteer, Cyndi, will be on Capitol Hill to testify to Congress about why quality, affordable health care coverage is important to her family and our country: “Virtually overnight, we went from being...

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Felicia Burnett

Childcare & Early Education

05/08/17

*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog Today, May 8th, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed SHB 1445, legislation expanding access to dual language learning in...

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

05/08/17

The Coalition on Human Needs just released the latest edition of the Human Needs Report , a regular newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. Read on for articles on the House ACA repeal vote, the FY17 spending bill that avoided a shutdown, FY18 budgets,...

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