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Family Economic Security MomsRising Near You Realistic & Fair Wages

06/07/18

Washington! You did it! Today, the Equal Pay Opportunity Act became law! This just-enacted-law means three big changes to your rights and protections in the workplace: Protects the right of workers to share their wage or salary information with co-workers without fear of retaliation Creates a new...

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Maggie Humphreys

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

06/06/18

Residents in 37 states and the District of Columbia were still experiencing higher levels of need in 2017 than they were in 2007, before the Great Recession. In 16 states, need more than doubled from 2007 to 2017. Only 13 states had lower levels of need in 2017 than in 2007.

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Lecia Imbery

Health Care

06/06/18

In his May 22 Op-Ed in the Washington Post entitled “Democrats’ complaints about CHIP funding are hypocrisy in its purest form,” Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney attempts to defend his proposal to rescind or raid $7 billion out of the Children’s Health Insurance Program...

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Bruce Lesley

Food!

06/05/18

Indeed the world is heavy with challenges right now. But there's some good news too: in the contest for our kids' health, we're winning. Thanks to you in recent years: schools now offer healthier meals and snacks; many restaurants offer kids healthier drink options; and chain restaurants now...

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Karen Showalter

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Gun Safety MomsRising Near You

06/04/18

June is National Gun Violence Awareness Month, and here at MomsRising, we are looking for AWARENESS + ACTION! Every mom, dad, grandparent and family member can make a solid, verifiable difference in the fight for gun safety in their own community. How? By doing what Janine, Scott, and Dian did...

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Dorie Klein

Immigration

06/01/18

The members of MomsRising are outraged by how the Trump administration is targeting immigrant children, women, moms, and families. Make no mistake, when pregnant immigrant women are being detained, and denied the health care they need, it’s also a women’s issue. When asylum-seeking parents come...

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Linda Stone

Immigration

06/01/18

Recently, the Administration announced a change in immigration policy that has resulted in at least 700 children being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border since October 1.

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Say Ahhh!

Immigration Politics & Policy

06/01/18

With Attorney General Sessions’ recent announcement of a “zero tolerance” policy towards parents and children crossing the border, humane standards have been abandoned. Children are taken from their parents. Toddlers taken away crying; mothers not knowing where they are going, unable to contact them for weeks or months. This is shameful.

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Debbie Weinstein

Food! Gun Safety Immigration MomsVote

06/01/18

Today's a big day, as MomsRising joins partners in hosting a National Day of Action for Children in cities across the nation. We are at a critical point in history: We are horrified to share that it is now official US immigration policy to routinely and intentionally separate children from their...

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Karen Showalter

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Immigration MomsRising

05/31/18

You know those moments that you read about in history books and think, "How could people who were around then have let that happen?" Well, we're in one of those moments. Our time is right now, because our nation's treatment of immigrant children, women, and families is devastatingly wron g. We...

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Maggie Humphreys