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09/20/13

This post first appeared on bicuturalfamilia.com. I grew up on Food Stamps. As a child, that's all I knew. Well, that, and the long lines we waited in for cheese, butter and powdered milk at the end of the month when food ran out. Or the glare looks from men and women in the grocery lines as my...

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Chantilly Patiño

Food!

09/19/13

Just weeks after the USDA reported that 14.5% of American households struggled to put food on the table, today the House of Representatives passed, 217-210 , a shameful bill that cuts $40 billion to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps). Such a move would end benefits...

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Elyssa Schmier

Politics & Policy

09/19/13

The federal budget expresses our nation’s values and priorities in numbers. It’s a blueprint for how our elected officials plan to make money and how they plan to spend it. What happens in Washington, D.C. has a profound local impact. About 80 percent of all federal tax revenue comes from the...

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Jo Comerford

Childcare & Early Education

09/18/13

Since the early part of the decade, the number of young children – those from birth to 5 years of age – living in poverty in the United States has been climbing. While that number held steady in 2012, according to data released today from the U.S. Census, the poverty report is far from good news...

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Hannah Matthews

Environmental Health

09/18/13

You want proof that online and offline activism works, and that regular American parents and consumers can make a difference in multi-billion dollar corporations? Just take a look at some of the public health successes that have come across our radar in the last week. While we celebrate the good...

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Katy Farber

Health Care

09/17/13

We learned this week that only 24% of uninsured people say they understand how health reform will affect them. Opponents of the law continue to pump out misinformation and half-truths that have resulted in a very confused, reluctant public. This means we have a lot of work to do! As a member of the...

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Felicia Burnett

Politics & Policy Food!

09/17/13

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the “Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act,” making an unprecedented move to separate the nutrition portion of the Farm Bill reauthorization. As part of this effort, an extreme group of House Republicans has gone all out to gut...

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Zoila Sanchez

Health Care

09/17/13

This post originally appeared on Get Covered America Blog. ******* Being uninsured means you often "ride out" your sicknesses, or only get treatment when things are really bad. Been there. Done that. Ugh. But wouldn't it be great to have a doctor check up on you when you're feeling relatively good...

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Letisha Marrero

Realistic & Fair Wages

09/17/13

By Liz Watson, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center Read more on our blog. Because of a new rule out today from the Department of Labor, home care workers will no longer be left out of the basic wage and hour protections guaranteed by the FLSA. Today’s rule extends wage and hour protections...

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Liz Watson

Gun Safety

09/17/13

Testimony of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner Co-Founder, Executive Director, MomsRising Hearing on “Stand Your Ground” Laws: Civil Rights and Public Safety Implications of the Expanded Use of Deadly Force Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights,...

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