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Families & The Federal Budget Social & Emotional Development

11/22/17

On this Thanksgiving, I share again the beautiful prayer of great Black theologian Howard Thurman, A Litany of Thanksgiving, which my family reads together each year. Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the values we embrace – especially this year as we feel so threatened by the negative forces of...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care

11/22/17

The holidays will soon be upon us — and with them, for many of us, the frantic holiday shopping season. Fortunately, shopping for health insurance doesn’t have to be difficult or time-consuming. November 1st marked the beginning of 2018 open enrollment for coverage offered under the Affordable Care...

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Stephani Becker

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11/22/17

On Thanksgiving eve, I’m thankful, worried, busy, tired, and optimistic all at the same time. I bet you are too. I’ve got lists for the grocery store (can’t forget the sweet potatoes!) and for Congress (urge them to stop their destructive tax plan in its tracks). This has been quite a year. I’ve...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

MomsRising Politics & Policy

11/21/17

A whopping one-in-four women say they have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace . One-in-three women have experienced some form of sexual violence in her lifetime. Almost 23 million women have been victims of rape or attempted rape in the United States. We believe women. We believe facts...

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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

11/21/17

I’d say it’s unbelievable, but at this point Congress really is starting to feel like a season of Stranger Things . Like the monstrous ‘Demogorgon’ that keeps coming back after it’s been sent to the ‘upside down’ (and you hope is gone forever)… the devastatingly bad Trumpcare just keeps coming back...

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Felicia Burnett

Gun Safety

11/21/17

I am an American but my job allows me to look at America with a foreigner’s eye—I’ve spent most of my career life working as a U.S. based correspondent for a various of Chinese media outlets. Through the years I can’t help it but notice many senseless things in this country’s system. Paid family...

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To-wen Tseng

MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

11/21/17

The National League of Cities sat down with MomsRising’s #KeepMarchingCircle to discuss how parents can help create change at the local level! Below is the video of this wonderful conversation! As Katie Whitehouse (Principal Associate for Early Childhood Success) and Dawn Schluckebier (Principal...

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Abbie Gately

Breastfeeding Food!

11/20/17

A young Muslim woman stands in line anxiously at the fitting room at a clothing store holding a “NaMastay in Bed” sweatshirt. Behind her, a mother waits with a crying baby. The Muslim woman enters a stall and prays quickly, hoping no one notices her bending and kneeling through the door gap. She...

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Shireen Hakim

Health Care

11/20/17

I knew something was “off” when my husband came home early from work unexpectedly. His face and body language told me it was something bad. I thought he was ill, or maybe a fender bender on the way home. Then he uttered the words I never expected. “Business is slow. They just laid a bunch of us off...

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Tracy Brown

Environmental Health Food!

11/17/17

As a child, I spent weeks every summer rambling around my family farm in southern Ohio. A favorite destination was an old stream bed that fed into a larger creek on the edge of our property. And although I love taking my own kids down to that farm, I can't let them play in the water as I once did...

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