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April 8, 2016

The stories are unbelievable! A Queens first grader with learning disabilities was handcuffed by police and suspended from school when he became upset while painting an easter egg in class. Alexa Gonzalez, a 12-year-old Queens girl was suspended from school and hauled off in handcuffs for doodling...

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Beatriz Beckford

Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

April 8, 2016

“I was in Newark and Harlem just this week. And I walked into the homes of welfare mothers. I saw them in conditions—no, not with wall-to-wall carpet, but wall-to-wall rats and roaches. . . . [One mother] pointed out the walls with all the ceiling falling through. She showed me the holes where the...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

April 7, 2016

Investing in housing and renters' assistance improves the health outcomes of infants and children and lowers healthcare spending.

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Lecia Imbery

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

April 6, 2016

Cross posted from Coalition for Human Needs (CHN). Back in February, we at Coalition for Human Needs told you about a tax-dodging scheme that is all too common in this day and age: Pfizer, a U.S. pharmaceutical company and one of the world’s largest, wanted to avoid $35 billion in U.S. taxes on...

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David Elliot

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

April 5, 2016

1,000,000 women, mostly mothers are behind bars or under criminal justice supervision in the United States . Two-thirds of the women in federal prisons are serving time for challenges related to nonviolent drug abuse. They need treatment and counseling, not incarceration. Our justice system is...

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Beatriz Beckford

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

April 5, 2016

I know there’s a whole lot of yuck happening in national politics right now, but we have good news! In spite of all the yuck, local leaders are doing GREAT things on early learning across the country. Leaders like Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, who is piloting an evidence-based 4-year universal pre-k...

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Jeannina Perez

Family Economic Security MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

April 4, 2016

Lucy and Twins Photo.jpg Let's fast forward to the year 2059. My 11-year old daughter Lucy will be 55, and my two-year old twins, Cecilia and Eleanor, will turn 45. It's fun to contemplate all that they might achieve over the next four decades. It's not so fun to think about the fact that it will...

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Mary Kay Devine

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

April 1, 2016

More Americans die every year from drug overdoses than they do in car crashes. That’s one of the reasons President Obama was in Atlanta this Tuesday speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit, the largest national collaboration of local, state and federal agencies, business, academia, treatment providers, counselors and advocates impacted by prescription drug abuse and heroin use.

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Lecia Imbery

Politics & Policy

April 1, 2016

March 31 is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last Sunday sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in 1968 before his assassination four days later: “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution”. Dr. King said he believed a triple revolution was taking place in the world...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Politics & Policy

March 31, 2016

Members of Congress like to talk about securing the future for our children and grandchildren. Instead, Congress has foreclosed opportunity for many thousands of children because of its irresponsible failure to protect them from lead poison. Congress needs to come back and ensure that all children now threatened by such toxic inaction have the protection and services they need.

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