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03/20/13

I am Mukti Banerjee, a first-generation immigrant-turned-citizen from India. I decided to start Mukti's Kitchen when a few good friends insisted that I did something to let others know about my Indian cooking and the variety and uniqueness of it. Deep inside, I am a social activist and believe in a...

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Banerjee Mukti

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote Family Economic Security Health Care

03/20/13

Yesterday I had the opportunity to take part in a press conference held by several Congresswomen on what the budget proposed by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) would do to women and their families (that’s me standing in front of the flag!). We’ve previously highlighted the ways the Ryan...

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Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Food! Blog Carnivals

03/20/13

African-American children suffer from obesity at a greater rate than any other group of children in the United States . There are many complex factors that contribute to this epidemic. But one factor, junk foods sold in schools, is being tackled by moms and dads nationwide. The USDA recently...

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Monifa Bandele

Food!

03/20/13

At a conference last weekend , I spoke at length about the daily realities families face in my community when presented with little to no healthy food options. I spoke about the difficulties of getting my children to chose a banana over Cheetos and water over soda----during a conference that had a...

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Tanya Fields

Childcare & Early Education Health Care MomsVote Family Economic Security

03/20/13

Years ago, I attended an event on economic policy where now-Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), was speaking. After the event, I introduced myself to him and shared that I was a former Hill staffer. I told him that, while I disagreed with nearly everything he...

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Randi Schmidt

03/19/13

Lesson from this week - there's always more to learn! Five years into my work on health reform, I learned that the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has much more to offer small business owners and the self-employed than I had realized. Welcome news! This Monday, MomsRising co-hosted a webinar...

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Ashley Boyd

Gun Safety

03/19/13

I have thought a lot about what happened to/with me at the vigil at the NRA on March 14 —and how my story might help inform and move people. I’m offer here a little more detail for what I hope is a contribution to the issue of the price families pay for America’s approach to guns, which is oddly...

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Louisa Davis

Paid Sick Days Family Economic Security Health Care

03/19/13

Tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on the Ryan Budget. It is devastating to women’s advancement and to programs that women want and need. It is the budget that women overwhelming voted against in the 2012 election with a decisive gender gap. HERvotes , with its 52 women’s organizations...

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Eleanor Smeal

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security

03/19/13

To Whom It May Concern: I'm a single mother with two kids under 3, a full-time student, and working, so I don't have much time to write. But I have to tell whoever is willing to listen that the daycare subsidy I receive has saved my life. I'm able to go back to school to get the kind of job that...

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Nan Mooney

Family Economic Security Blog Carnivals

03/19/13

The phrase “Let them eat cake,” supposedly uttered by Marie Antoinette reflecting her obliviousness to the plight of the people, could be attributed to some members of Congress. Blind to the real hardships faced by millions of Americans and ignoring what the majority of voters in this country want...

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