Childcare & Early Education

March 8, 2019

As most any couple will tell you, you’re never actually fighting about the dishes. You’re fighting about what doing the dishes says about how you’re valued and respected. In Congress, likewise, and in our early childhood education (ECE) community, we’re often not fighting about the thing we appear...

MomsRising Together

Lauren Hogan

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy

March 8, 2019

As Latinx parents raising multicultural kids we know the challenges too well. Do we speak Spanish at home with our kids? How do we keep our kids from rejecting our cultural traditions (do we even care about these traditions...)? Where do we find books and toys that are representative of our various...

MomsRising Together

Jeannina Perez

Add your voice!

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

March 6, 2019

D elicious avocado toast isn’t why families like mine are struggling financially, as has been ridiculously proposed, but childcare...now THAT is an actual problem. It’s hard to believe that out of touch millionaires like Tim Gurner can even suggest that eating avocados could be a reason that...

MomsRising Together

Donna Hoffman Cullinan

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

March 6, 2019

MomsRising super mom, Jessica Morrison, spoke at a press conference on Capitol Hill about how the American Family Act would help her growing family. Read her story below and watch her speak here ! Good afternoon. My name is Jessica Morrison. I live just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and I...

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

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Social & Emotional Development

March 1, 2019

“Someone had to break the pattern, and very often the civil rights revolution was initiated by the most vulnerable Black persons. Many of them were women and many of them were children—tough, resilient, hopeful, beautiful children. The greatest experience of my life was standing with them as they...

MomsRising Together

Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

February 27, 2019

I’m newly back in the office after having my baby and I have one thing on my mind—we HAVE TO solve the childcare crisis in this country. At my neighborhood meetup for new parents not a week goes by that childcare doesn’t come up as a major issue for families. Moms with no choice but to quit jobs...

MomsRising Together

Jeannina Perez

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

February 25, 2019

Today, the White House Council of Economic Advisors released a paper on work and the cost of child care. This is yet another example of the Trump Administration white-washing its record on supporting families’ access to affordable child care. During the 2016 presidential election, then candidate...

MomsRising Together

Katie Hamm

Childcare & Early Education Paid Family Leave Podcast Realistic & Fair Wages

February 25, 2019

We have an all new #Radioshow out this week where we cover the power of YOU! How YOU can help get the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passed through Congress; tips for doing big things; how access to early learning & childcare is finally catching fire (thank goodness!); and how you can help...

MomsRising Together

Amber Dorsey

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

February 22, 2019

When President Barack Obama awarded Judge Patricia Wald the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, he summed up her career this way: “Patricia McGowan Wald made history as the first woman appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Rising to Chief Judge of...

MomsRising Together

Marian Wright Edelman