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08/05/13

In this country, paid family leave has been nothing more than a sleep-deprived fantasy for most new parents. But now there's some exciting news! MomsRising members have been sending storks to the Hill all year and it's paying off! The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a budget bill...

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Ruth Martin

Food!

08/05/13

In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission reported the food and beverage industry spends $1.8 billion each year on food marketing to kids. As a parent, that number makes me tired, and the advertisements themselves exhaust me. I know I’m not alone—even the strongest among us have been worn down by the...

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Manel Kappagoda

08/04/13

I do care about the influence that football and, by extension, the NFL has on my friends and family. I’m the only one in my family who doesn’t like football. When my uncles, cousins, and mother would come together to watch the Miami Dolphins play I was generally reading or caring for the youngest...

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Jeannina Perez

Immigration Family Economic Security

08/02/13

This week First Focus and the Foundation for Child Development hosted a congressional briefing in cooperation with Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA) and the Congressional Asian and Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Congressional Black Caucus focused on improving...

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Wendy Cervantes

08/02/13

This past April, fast food workers in a store in New York City went on strike. They sought a livable wage and the right to organize without interference. Their demands: to have schedules posted a minimum of 2 days in advance and a $15 per hour wage. They won. This week, fast food workers are on...

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Migdalia Rivera

Food!

08/02/13

“I don’t think it’s fair when big companies try to trick kids into eating food. It isn’t fair that so many kids my age are getting sick.” That was the zinger by Hannah Robertson directed to McDonald’s CEO who countered “We don’t sell junk food.” Plenty of backlash centered on Hannah’s mother, a...

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Wendy Lesko

08/01/13

Mc Donalds really stepped in it recently when they published a budget for their employees to help them make ends meet on the low wages they make flipping burgers. The McBudget suggested workers get a second job, did not include any money for food or gasoline, and allocated only $20 a month for...

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Martha Burk

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work Health Care

08/01/13

Here’s a spin on National Breastfeeding Month: activism! August is National Breastfeeding Month and August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week , which is a time to advance breastfeeding as part of the country’s larger healthcare agenda. Throughout the month, MomsRising.org will collaborate with other...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Food!

08/01/13

www.BagtheJunk.org Here's a round up of the latest and greatest from BagtheJunk.org , a national campaign to empower the school community to act as champions for healthy foods and drinks in schools. Healthy Fundraising Ideas: Host a Scavenger Hunt Instead of Selling Sweets offers easy ideas for how...

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Lisa Sharma Creighton

08/01/13

You can’t work in the social justice field like I do without celebrating small victories – most of the time, small may be the only kind of victory available! If you don’t make the most of little reasons to be happy, you just get burned out and depleted. There’s so much to accomplish you have to...

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