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Childcare & Early Education Immigration Politics & Policy

06/02/17

Donald Trump’s openly anti-Hispanic rhetoric – for which he has never apologized -- has only fueled anti-Latino sentiment and racist acts in the country. Take for instance, the verbal abuse of Hispanics who speak Spanish in public. In one recent incident, a white woman verbally assaulted a Hispanic...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

06/02/17

Shouldn’t we all have a stake in ensuring all residents of our nation have safe water to drink, clean air to breath, food on the table, a place to call home, a good education, and quality, affordable health care? Public investments to ensure basic living standards for all Americans should be what we do. It's called “having a country.” President Trump's budget would end that.

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Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Food! Health Care

06/02/17

“ I have always known how dangerous pesticides can be...But I never thought I would one day have to go to the emergency room because of them.” - Aylin, cabbage worker This is what happened to 19-year old Aylin and 50+ other cabbage workers as they labored at a Bakersfield, CA farm on Cinco de Mayo...

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Jocelyn Sherman

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Gun Safety

06/02/17

TODAY is National Gun Violence Awareness Day , and MomsRising joins the gun safety community in #WearingOrange to remember the countless lives lost and communities devastated by gun violence. Why orange? Because it’s the color of safety. #WearOrange 2017 comes at a particularly fraught moment in...

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Gloria Pan

Breastfeeding

06/01/17

Let’s talk about some moments of motherhood that aren’t covered in the Hallmark cards. Like that time my baby spit up all over my face, and maybe in my mouth a little (SO GROSS!)? Or the times at work when I had to pump breastmilk in my car instead of in my sleek office? On that last part, I know I...

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Sili Recio

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Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

05/30/17

"Don't play with our kids." Michelle Obama's statement - in response to US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue's declaration he will roll back or delay key elements of the healthy school meal standards - pretty much sums it up. Healthy food for kids isn't a game. It isn’t a partisan or a...

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Karen Showalter

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

05/30/17

*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog Before my oldest daughter was born, when I still had not decided on a name or the type of diapers I was going to use,...

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Linda Stone

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy

05/30/17

The creation of a commission to study the school-to-prison pipeline and restorative practices are a huge step forward in ensuring all kids are set up for success.

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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Podcast

05/29/17

On the radio show this week we cover the latest on healthcare and what you can do to make sure it isn’t cut for 23 million people; the terrible, awful, no good, very bad budget that Trump proposed and how to stop it; paid family and medical leave in the United States of America; and why David...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

05/26/17

image2.JPG The moment they brought my baby girl to my arms, the only words that came out of my mouth where in Spanish. Since I married an English speaker, and realized we would be raising our family in a small town in North GA, I felt fear that my children would not be able to communicate with my...

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