Food!

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A colorful graphic that says "Weekly Blog Round Up" on a pink background]

Family Economic Security Food! Immigration Paid Family Leave

March 15, 2019

VICTORY! EVEN MORE good news in the work to stop private prison financing! Thanks to your work, signing and delivering petitions, showing up at your local Wells Fargo (and Chase) bank branches to ask about their decision to finance private prisons that detain immigrant families, we have made...

MomsRising Together

Anita Sarah Jackson

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

March 12, 2019

Below is testimony submitted by MomsRising Member, Nikki Berlew-O’Meara, to the hearing of the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing as part of the House Education and Labor Committee held on March 12, 2019.

MomsRising Together

Abbie Gately

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety Immigration

March 1, 2019

It's March, and spring is officially in the air! We're back with this week's round-up of top actions, featuring urgent campaigns around tax credits for working families, child care, protecting school lunch and SNAP (food stamps), gun safety, the #FakeNationalEmergency, and more. Be sure to scroll...

MomsRising Together

Karen Showalter

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Man walks down an alley surrounded by colorful buildings in Puerto Rico.]

Families & The Federal Budget Food!

February 25, 2019

Starting next month, 1.4 million Puerto Ricans on the island will struggle to put food on the table if Congress fails to approve an additional $600 million for the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP). Disaster NAP has served as a critical lifeline for Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and...

MomsRising Together

Christine Melendez Ashley

Speak out for SNAP!

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

February 22, 2019

The Trump Administration is at it again, trying to take away SNAP (food stamps) from workers and families that are already struggling! Yes, you read that right. Ugh. You’re probably thinking, “Wait, didn’t Congress just pass the Farm Bill a few months ago that was very clear about protecting SNAP...

MomsRising Together

Abbie Gately

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety

February 22, 2019

We're back with this week's round-up of top actions, featuring urgent campaigns around tax credits for working families, protecting SNAP (food stamps), passing universal background checks, and keeping the drumbeat going around ending the #FakeNationalEmergency. We know it's a busy time, but your...

MomsRising Together

Karen Showalter

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Immigration Politics & Policy

February 6, 2019

With Congress refusing to enact some of his harshest proposals against people with low incomes, President Trump has relentlessly pursued alternative methods to harm families struggling to make ends meet. For more than two years, the Trump Administration has tried to use regulations and waivers as a...

MomsRising Together

Madison Hardee

Single father explains hardships caused by shutdown

Family Economic Security Food!

February 5, 2019

The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is relieved congressional leaders and the administration reached a deal last week to temporarily re-open the federal government. However, we remain deeply concerned about the lasting impact this shutdown will have for federal workers and contractors, food...

MomsRising Together

Lisa Sherrill

Food!

February 4, 2019

A while ago, a teacher from my 5-year-old son’s Saturday Chinese School gave out candy rewards. My husband and I felt uncomfortable about this. We have opinions about candy. I don’t eat candy. I don’t spend my grocery money on candies. With that being said, there is no candy under my roof. When my...

MomsRising Together

To-wen Tseng

Childcare & Early Education Food! Immigration Politics & Policy Podcast

January 28, 2019

On the #RisersRadio show this week we cover the government shutdown, re-opening, and what’s happening next; we get the inside scoop from a structural engineer about the literal faults in Trump’s ridiculous wall; we hear the impact of using children’s access to healthy food as a political football;...

MomsRising Together