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Stand Up to Toxic Campaign Rhetoric!

“Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.” “She is a piece of garbage.” This is how New Hampshire state Representative Al Baldasaro described Hillary Clinton in a radio interview from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland today. Unacceptable. His comments are...

Why Moms Should Care about Child Care as an Election Issue

If you’re a mom with young kids, what may be on your mind on Election Day isn’t “who is better on economic policy?” but “how am I going to juggle child care so that I can find the time to vote?” But you need to hold that thought even after you’ve resolved the day’s child care challenges and headed...

Child Care Assistance—A Key Support for Working Families—Needs More Robust Funding

Quality child care enables parents to work or go to school while also providing young children with the early childhood education experiences needed for healthy development. The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the primary source of federal funding for child care subsidies for low-...

From trauma to civic engagement: Tacoma mom breaks decades long silence to protect vulnerable teens

M ykleAnn kept it bottled up all these years, the memory of the night she'd gone off to a party in Tacoma, looking for fun, and wound up getting raped. She was just 14 years old. Bloodied and bruised, she never uttered a word to anyone out of fear that if her father found out, he would kill the guy...