Family Economic Security

Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

October 25, 2017

The U.S. Congress is just weeks away from unveiling a tax bill that would give 80% of tax cuts to the top 1%. Meanwhile, low and middle-income families across the country will be left footing the bill through higher taxes and cuts to vital health care, nutrition, and education programs. Concerned...

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Abbie Gately

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

October 24, 2017

The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ensures that we always give our kids a winning hand of lifelong health! Republicans and Democrats created this critically important program in 1997 because it was a low-cost, sound investment in our children's health and future—and they were right !...

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Isabella Higgins

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Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

October 24, 2017

Whether it’s to care for a newborn you swear already smiles, a mom who is ill, or a spouse battling cancer, being there for family is what matters and you shouldn't have to give up a paycheck to do it. Unfortunately for far too many working families, that is exactly what is happening right now. Because the United States is one of the only countries in the entire world without a national paid family and medical leave policy. But we can take action, right here in New Mexico, to change this!

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Erin Bennett Leighton

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

October 23, 2017

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Isabella Higgins

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

October 23, 2017

As a vote on the Graham-Cassidy Bill seemed more and more likely in September, MomsRising members across the country headed to their Senators’ offices with cupcakes in hand (see pictures below) and a strong message: Protecting health care for moms, dads, and kids should be a *piece of cake*! Turns...

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Isabella Higgins

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Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Maternal Justice MomsRising Politics & Policy

October 23, 2017

Stunned. Outraged. That’s how I felt yesterday when I saw the news that Councilwoman Catherine Emmanuelle in Eau Claire, Wisconsin was illegally barred from breastfeeding her baby at the council dais during council meetings--because the council president decided that breastfeeding didn’t meet “our standards of decorum” for meetings.

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Tina Sherman

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

October 21, 2017

This piece originally appeared in the Daily Kos . To say that the last month has been intense is an understatement. I have family in Puerto Rico – my grandfather, aunt, uncle, cousins and the rest of my mother’s extended family– and like every other Puerto Rican on the island, they are feeling the...

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