Health Care

Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Health Care Maternal Justice Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

August 1, 2017

This piece is published in partnership with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together Program. Current data indicates that black women have the lowest rates of breastfeeding in the US. There are many reasons for this, including lack of access to resources, substandard healthcare, personal choice and...

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Sunshine Muse

Health Care

July 31, 2017

Following the election we knew immediately that a fight for Health Care was coming. The effort to protect care has been a longer and harder experience than we ever could have imagined. And, it is not over. This is a fair moment to reflect on the journey and identify lessons learned to build from...

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Rylin Rodgers

Food! Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice

July 30, 2017

What a week. WE WON! Health care was just saved in an extremely close vote in the U.S. Senate late this week due to people including you speaking up! THANK YOU! for taking hundreds of thousands of actions, making calls, signing onto letters, sharing your health care experiences, attending meetings...

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Karen Showalter

Health Care

July 28, 2017

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, on the U.S. Senate’s failed push to repeal the Affordable Care Act: “Moms across America are breathing a temporary...

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Health Care MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

July 28, 2017

WE WON! Health care was just saved in an extremely close vote in the U.S. Senate late last night! Never doubt that your voice, your stories, and your phone calls, can make a difference. It does. Last night's health care vote is the proof. While we won an important battle in the fight for millions...

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Abbie Gately

Environmental Health Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Immigration Realistic & Fair Wages

July 28, 2017

MomRising is thrilled to share an exclusive look at the poster for Dolores , a new documentary film about the legendary, and tireless, Dolores Huerta. Directed by Peter Bratt (Follow Me Home, La Mision) and executive produced by Carlos Santana, Dolores opens in select cities across the country in...

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Migdalia Rivera

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Politics & Policy

July 28, 2017

“It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: ‘Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care Politics & Policy

July 28, 2017

WE WON! Health care was just saved in an extremely close vote in the U.S. Senate late last night! Never doubt that your voice, your stories, and your phone calls, can make a difference. It does. Last night's health care vote is the proof. **We want to take a moment to say something important to you...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care Politics & Policy

July 27, 2017

The health care insanity continues! In good news, in no small part due to people like you making phone calls, the U.S. Senate Republicans have yet to get enough votes to repeal health care for tens of millions of people. In bad news, they’re still trying to take away health care. *Can you call...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care MomsRising Politics & Policy

July 27, 2017

Below is the story submitted by PA MomsRising member Jill Cammarata My son Anthony was born with profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss—which means he has been completely deaf from birth—in 2014. I had a totally healthy pregnancy and natural delivery, and by all accounts Anthony was a...

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