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Childcare & Early Education Immigration Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

July 10, 2020

Greetings. Summer is here. It’s hot. And the drumbeat of urgent actions in need of your support continues. This week’s list of top actions demanding justice for Vanessa Guillen, demanding immigrant children being held in ICE Family Detention Centers are released by the July 17 deadline, and urging...

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Karen Showalter

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

July 2, 2020

All policies addressing this pandemic should center the growing racial disparity in COVID-19 morbidity throughout each issue area. Shocking new data has emerged that show African Americans, Latinx, and Native American people are dying at rates markedly higher than white Americans. Our elected leaders must develop and implement health equity interventions across all components of coronavirus response legislation, collect national health outcomes data by race, and ensure that all new policies urgently address these racial and ethnic disparities.

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Families & The Federal Budget Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

May 28, 2020

It would be great if President Trump could snap his figures and end the COVID-19 health and economic crisis on July 31st, but so far, his magical thinking doesn’t seem to be doing the trick. Arbitrary dates are exactly that: arbitrary. And some of the improvements Congress passed to Unemployment...

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Elyssa Schmier

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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

May 22, 2020

The MomsRising community amplified the voices and concerns of mothers, sharing stories of child care and paid leave, and justice for the mother, friends and family of Ahmaud Arbery. VOICES: MomsRising Member Kelly Newman Shares Her #PaidLeave Story in The New York Times Screen Shot 2020-05-22 at 2...

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

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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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

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

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

May 2, 2020

Like most of the nation, this week the MomsRising community was focused on responding to the COVID-19 health crisis. VOICES: Free Migrant Children and Families From Detention Diana Limogi Butterflies Instagram Post.png MomsRising's Diana Limongi made these beautiful butterflies in support of our #...

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

May 1, 2020

Greetings! We hope your week has been as good as possible. This is a really difficult time in our nation and world. Thank you for all you’re doing to help lift families in this time of crisis. To that end, please see this week's list of most urgent actions below, featuring our top campaigns around...

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Karen Showalter

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Immigration Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave

April 30, 2020

Moms’ leadership and power has never been more critical 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 and medical leave, expanded unemployment insurance, food and nutrition support, paid...

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