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May 8, 2020

This Mother’s Day, America’s moms are demanding that lawmakers listen to our concerns and priorities, and address them now.

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May 7, 2020

As families practice “safer-at-home” measures, school their children in virtual classrooms, and abstain from most of their usual activities before this public health crisis, we have all been reminded of the importance of safety and the future. This means ensuring a full and accurate count of everyone in the 2020 Census. And while research has made it clear that we need more creative strategies to reach and encourage Latino families to include their young children in the census, it is incumbent on all of us to do our part in making sure everyone in our networks is counted.

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Lizette Escobedo

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May 5, 2020

Moms’ leadership and power has never been more critical, more needed, and more necessary as we enter another month of uncertainty as a nation. In fact, MomsRising has turned up the volume even more on the issues we fight for every day: paid family/medical leave, expanded unemployment insurance,...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

May 4, 2020

Nota del editor: Esta información se considera correcta hasta hoy 4/28/2020. Estas políticas siguen evolucionando a nivel federal y estatal y pueden cambiar, por favor visita regularmente el blog de MomsRising para encontrar la información más reciente. MomsRising participó, junto con expertos del...

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Xochitl Oseguera

Health Care

April 28, 2020

No matter where we come from or what our color, all of us should be able to access health care when we get sick. But some politicians in Raleigh have been blocking the expansion of Medicaid coverage to low-income, uninsured adults in North Carolina! If the NC General Assembly expanded Medicaid,...

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Jessica Burroughs

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

April 28, 2020

Editor’s Note: This information is accurate as of today, 4/28/2020. These policies are continuing to evolve at the federal level, as well as at the state levels, and they may change, so please check back here on the MomsRising blog regularly for updated information. MomsRising was joined by experts...

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Elyssa Schmier

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April 28, 2020

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April 24, 2020

The funniest line I ever heard came from the deadpan mouth of a mother standing over her dying daughter. I had just walked in to the girl’s hospital room to help her nurse that day when the mother remarked in my direction: “Oh, I see you have a woody and poo on your shirt too.” She was referring to...

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David Metzger

Health Care

April 22, 2020

Many Americans have lost their jobs and their health insurance due to the COVID-19 pandemic and find themselves in immediate need of affordable health coverage. Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provide free or low-cost health coverage for children and pregnant women with...

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April 22, 2020

More than 10 percent of Americans have been laid off since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. And even for those who have not lost their jobs altogether, families are feeling financial strain due to reduced work hours — whether because of the current pause on non-essential business, or because...

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