Childcare & Early Education

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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave

March 23, 2022

At MomsRising / MamásConPoder, we have been hearing from families across the country about the critical need for improvements and supports for maternal mental health like mental health services, paid family and medical leave, affordable child care, an extension of Medicaid coverage, and better...

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Felicia Burnett

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy

March 21, 2022

Did you know that a recent report shows that nearly half a million families are estimated to be stranded without reliable child care, exacerbating the nation's worker shortage as parents continue to stay home? This is after an unprecedented global pandemic that our families and our economy still need to recover from. The kicker to all of this is that already, pre-pandemic, more than 1/2 of families lived in child care deserts without safe, nurturing, affordable options to begin with! It’s time to do address this, immediately. Below are some stories highlighting the urgent need for Congress to include Child care and pre-K as part of any reconciliation package!

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S. Nadia Hussain

No Action is Too Small WA Leg Session 2022

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising

March 16, 2022

In December 2021, we announced a bold legislative agenda that built upon our wins for families, mothers, and caregivers. We set out to ask our lawmakers to expand on historic wins and to continue to put equity at the forefront of new legislation. Many of us tracked what was happening at momsrising...

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Mandy Kwan

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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

March 15, 2022

"If families really mattered to Republican leaders, then they wouldn't be focused on banning important books, restricting access to reproductive healthcare and attacking LGBTQ+ kids." - Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner In this powerful CNN Opinion , MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner...

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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Immigration

March 10, 2022

Hello! My name is Martha Mouret-Sanders. I live in Dallas, Texas with my husband, our five-year-old son and our two-year-old daughter. I am a sixth grade teacher and a proud member of MomsRising. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today about what my family and my community have faced during the pandemic, and what we need to recover.

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Martha

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

March 4, 2022

We are human animals with instincts and skills inherent to us as mammals including signals, sensations and sensors about well-being and needs. This is our Natural Leadership . As children, our Natural Leadership is fully ignited. Before it was socialized and domesticated out of us, we were much...

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Beth Anstandig

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Immigration Maternal Justice

February 28, 2022

Te invitanmos a disfrutar de palomitas y LOTERÍA con el Presidente... ¡todo desde la comodidad de tu sala! Este martes por la noche (1 de marzo) a las 9 p. m. ET / 6 p. m. PT, el presidente Joe Biden dará el Estado de la Unión 2022 (SOTU). Para que la observación sea divertida y poderosa, hemos...

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Linda Stone

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

February 25, 2022

Popcorn and BINGO with the President... all from the comfort of your living room! Want in? This Tuesday night (March 1st) at 9pm ET / 6pm PT President Joe Biden will be giving the 2022 State of the Union (SOTU). In order to make watching fun and powerful, we've created a BINGO card to help you...

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Hanna Addis

Childcare & Early Education

February 24, 2022

I waited. Some waits would potentially be a few weeks, while others were indefinite. One child care center stopped adding children to their waitlist through the end of 2021.

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Selina Maldonado

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care MomsRising Paid Family Leave

February 23, 2022

On Valentine's Day, we took to the street in the hope that Cupid's arrow would spark some care infrastructure love into the hearts of our U.S. Senators. We got together with the National Women's Law Center and with the help of Chalk R!ot, a Cocoa CareAVan, and candy hearts we spelled it out clearly and colorfully: Care. Can't. Wait.

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