Families & The Federal Budget

January 19, 2017

Stories of hunger where you least expect it are plentiful – yet they are hidden from view. TIH_Molly_ .jpg “In the fall of 1997, I drove up to my $3 million home and saw a small note tacked on the door saying the house was going to be auctioned off in 30 days.... Circumstances like divorce and job...

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Abby Leibman

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

January 18, 2017

The 115 th Congress convened on Jan. 3 and hit the ground running. The Coalition on Human Needs just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report , our regular newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations, with a look at what Members of Congress have...

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Lecia Imbery

Thank you!

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care MomsRising MomsVote Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

January 13, 2017

Submit your very own thank-you note to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. We'll deliver it to the White House before they leave office!

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Sara Alcid

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

January 9, 2017

America has become two separate and unequal societies, especially when it comes to opportunities for our children. Yet this can and must be reversed, for hope to be restored, and for America to keep its place in the global economy. These themes were conveyed by Harvard Professor Robert Putnam,...

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Dora Wang, M.D.

Families & The Federal Budget

December 30, 2016

As we look to a new year, here are a few prayers to help guide us for the work ahead.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

December 22, 2016

In December 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached what would be his last Christmas sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. At the end Dr. King spoke about the day he told the nation at the March on Washington that he had a dream for America’s future, but said in the uncertain years that had followed that dream sometimes felt like it was turning into a nightmare. But Dr. King said he was never willing to give up:

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Marian Wright Edelman

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

December 13, 2016

Donald Trump became President-Elect because he prevailed in the Electoral College, but Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2.6 million votes . In other words, the American People did not give Donald Trumpa mandate to enact an extremist agenda aimed at destroying some of our most...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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November 29, 2016

Taken together, President-Elect Trump’s appointments to date present a significant threat to our democracy, to the people of our country, and to our economy: · Rep. Tom Price , nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services, has made dismantling the Affordable Care Act a landmark goal of his...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Families & The Federal Budget

November 23, 2016

Lord I can’t preach like Martin Luther King, Jr. or turn a poetic phrase like Maya Angelou but I care and am willing to serve and stand with others to move our children forward and save our children in this time of Thanksgiving.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

November 11, 2016

What kind of people do we want to be? What kind of people do we want our children to be? What kind of moral examples, teachings, choices — personal, community, economic, faith, and political — are we parents, grandparents, community adults, political leaders, and citizens prepared to make in this new century and millennium to make our children strong inside and empower them to seek and help build a more just, compassionate, and less violent society and world?

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Marian Wright Edelman