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09/13/17

That Was Then In the early 80s, my family set off on an annual trip from southern Ohio to Wisconsin’s North Woods. My youngest nephews, toddler twins, spent 750 miles in a playpen in the back of their dad’s minivan, holding on for dear life and joyfully yelling “whoa” on the biggest curves. Child...

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Kathy Kinsner

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Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

09/13/17

Right now, many of us have our eyes trained on Hurricane Irma, concerned about people in the path of its progress. When it rains, it pours. There’s a storm of a whole other kind brewing in our nation’s capitol—it’s one that’s not being tracked by radar on national news, and doesn’t have a catchy...

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Elyssa Schmier

Health Care

09/13/17

In yet another partisan, secretive attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson today introduced a bill that would strip Medicaid funding, weaken protections for those with pre-existing conditions and lead to massive numbers of people...

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Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Maternal Justice

09/12/17

From visiting the wonderful Dutch Resistance Museum many years ago, I knew about the "Judenrat," councils of Jewish leaders that Nazis used to facilitate the implementation of their own annihilation. Although I'm Jewish and believe it's important to remember the Holocaust, I never really spent that...

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Ruby Sinreich

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

09/12/17

A new, major fight is starting in the U.S. Congress this fall. The fight is on whether or not extremists in Congress will get their way and cut the programs that boost our families’ health care, nutrition, and education in order to pay for tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy...

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Elyssa Schmier

Realistic & Fair Wages

09/12/17

It’s again confirmed: Women are not making equal pay for equal work despite now comprising nearly half of the paid labor force. This is ridiculous. It hurts women, families and our economy. According to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data, the average wage gap for a woman working full-time year-...

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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice

09/11/17

Today we remember all of those who were lost and who were impacted by 9/11, including the over 3000 children who lost parents that day alone. Thank you for all you do to for our country, including via taking action with MomsRising. Below please find our top actions for the week, including on tax...

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Karen Showalter

Health Care

09/08/17

When my husband and I recited our wedding vows to one another, we said “for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health.” We didn’t realize that later on in our marriage, those vows would be put to the test, all at once no less. We were your typical optimistic newlyweds, and...

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Heather Von St. James

Gun Safety Maternal Justice MomsRising

09/08/17

Police brutalizing Black people is endemic in the United States. This disturbing practice continued last Saturday when the Las Vegas police terrorized 6'4 ft, 274 lbs NFL star and father of three young girls, Michael Bennett, who plays for the Seahawks. Using excessive force, the officers...

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Patrisse Cullors

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

09/08/17

“In this dark day of discontent So many feel despair As poverty and dissidence Cause sadness everywhere.” On May 11, 1997 Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) began his remarks at a Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) conference with the lyrics above from “Freedom’s Light,” a song written by Senator...

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