Politics & Policy

Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

August 30, 2018

With maternal mortality rates on the rise in the United States, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces new legislation to help reduce maternal deaths, help hospitals implement best practices to prevent women from dying before, during and after childbirth. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world; the majority of these deaths are preventable. This crisis is even worse in communities of color, where Black women die at up to four times the rate of White women due to racial disparities in the U.S. health care system.

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S. Nadia Hussain

Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

August 30, 2018

In order to tackle the maternal mortality crisis that plagues our nation, legislators are taking heed. One particular legislation includes The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act. The purpose is to support States in their work to save and sustain the health of mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, and...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Immigration Politics & Policy

August 28, 2018

10 states suing to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program stand to lose billions of dollars if they “win” their lawsuit.

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Lecia Imbery

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Judge Kavanaugh and family stand to the right of a podium, behind which Pres. Trump stands in mid clap looking at Kavanuagh

Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

August 23, 2018

Right now, the Trump Administration and Republicans in the U.S. Senate are hoping you’re too distracted to notice their attempt at an extreme political takeover of the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the...

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Felicia Burnett

Senate subcommittee hearing on protecting immigrant children

Immigration Politics & Policy

August 17, 2018

On Aug. 16, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on what federal agencies are doing – or rather, aren’t doing enough of – to protect unaccompanied migrant children from abuse and human trafficking once they enter the U.S.

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Lecia Imbery

We Are MomsRising!

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

August 6, 2018

In our third installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Sheri in Iowa who used SNAP while being a single mom and being in school. She recently graduated this May. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post. There is this myth that people...

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Abbie Gately

Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Politics & Policy

August 3, 2018

The Coalition on Human Needs submitted comments today to the Commerce Department voicing our strong opposition to the inclusion of a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census. Such a question would likely increase the undercount of children, especially children of color, those identifying as Hispanic/Latino, and those in low-income households.

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Debbie Weinstein

Childcare & Early Education Immigration Politics & Policy

July 27, 2018

Who counts as a person in America? The answer is more complicated than it should be. Every ten years the government is required by the Constitution to count the entire resident population of the United States. The Census matters for a very long list of reasons beginning with political...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

July 23, 2018

Read on for the latest on the House Labor-H bill and other FY19 spending, migrant family separations, proposed SNAP cuts, reactions to the Supreme Court nominee, threats to the ACA, and more.

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Lecia Imbery