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Immigration

08/02/14

Q and A's to learn important facts about the children urgently seeking refuge in our country.

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Debbie Weinstein

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

08/02/14

Extreme opposition to fair wages knows no bounds - and has proponents in Congress; but in the real world, the Live the Wage challenge shows how badly an increase is needed.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

08/02/14

The Ryan poverty plan will create more poverty, not less.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

08/02/14

Easy links to learn about Ryan's poverty plan - and the hard questions that must be asked about it.

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Debbie Weinstein

Childcare & Early Education

07/31/14

After twenty-five years of teaching in early childhood education, I am used to the rush put on moms for “Back to School” shopping. I know that there is no need to rush it.

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Mary E. Mannix

Food!

07/31/14

Happy Friday! Have you heard the news? MomsRising's Food Power event is back! We've teamed up with the The BLK Projek's Not Just Talk, a full-day conference of exciting women working in social justice.

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Migdalia Rivera

Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

07/30/14

What’s going on in Texas? Jails in the state are endangering pregnant women and their fetuses, despite the state’s professed interest in “unborn babies.” In May, a woman named Nicole Guerrero filed a lawsuit against the Wichita County Jail for ignoring her when she was in labor. Locked alone in a...

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Rachel Roth

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

07/30/14

To highlight just how difficult it is to live on $7.25 – around $15,000 a year for a full-time worker – a host of advocacy groups including MomsRising and the National Employment Law Project (where I work) has issued a challenge: try it.

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Arun Ivatury

Food!

07/30/14

A WebMD/Sanford Health survey found that parents of teens find it more difficult to talk about weight with their child than talking about sex, drugs, alcohol or smoking.

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Howell Wechsler

Immigration

07/30/14

Over the past few weeks the stories of child refugees fleeing unspeakable violence in Central America, as well as their uncertain fate in the hands of U.S. policymakers, has been the focus of headlines around the country. What has been more difficult to follow is what is happening to the influx of refugee mothers who have recently fled to the U.S. with their children, many just toddlers and babies.

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