Politics & Policy

July 13, 2018

Toxic stress is the highest costs of the Trump Administration’s shameful punishment of those fleeing violence. But there are other dollar costs that underscore how unnecessarily bad their approach is.

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Debbie Weinstein

Breastfeeding Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Politics & Policy

July 11, 2018

While Candidate Trump may have claimed to love babies, the harm President Trump’s actions and policies are doing to them is undeniable.

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Lecia Imbery

Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

July 5, 2018

The Albuquerque City Council is considering paid sick days legislation this session and we have an opportunity to influence the scope and strength of the ordinance.

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Sara Alcid

Deborah Weinstein, CHN’s Executive Director, arrested in action at Senate office building.

Immigration Politics & Policy

June 29, 2018

Yesterday in Washington, DC, women placed their bodies and their hearts where the children had been days before. More than 500 of us got arrested by sitting down in the Hart Senate Office Building. My favorite chant? “Stop stealing babies!”

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Debbie Weinstein

Sign NOW to protect SNAP!

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

June 22, 2018

I know the world feels chaotic right now with everything happening on the news (not to mention getting your kids ready for summer!) —and there’s a lot to keep track of. It’s easy to feel down and helpless. But that’s why MomsRising is here—to remind you of how powerful your voice is and what a...

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Elyssa Schmier

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 19, 2018

The Coalition on Human Needs just released another edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for the latest on immigration bills in the House, advocates fighting to stop family separations at the border, a better bill for SNAP, a spending cuts package, and FY19 spending work.

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Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

June 8, 2018

On the night Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had announced his decision to run for president, was campaigning in Indiana when the news came of Dr. King’s assassination. He movingly shared the terrible news with the waiting crowd of mostly Black people, urging...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 6, 2018

Residents in 37 states and the District of Columbia were still experiencing higher levels of need in 2017 than they were in 2007, before the Great Recession. In 16 states, need more than doubled from 2007 to 2017. Only 13 states had lower levels of need in 2017 than in 2007.

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Lecia Imbery

Immigration Politics & Policy

June 1, 2018

With Attorney General Sessions’ recent announcement of a “zero tolerance” policy towards parents and children crossing the border, humane standards have been abandoned. Children are taken from their parents. Toddlers taken away crying; mothers not knowing where they are going, unable to contact them for weeks or months. This is shameful.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

May 29, 2018

In celebration of Mother’s Day 2018, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi hosted a Moms Summit: Addressing the Needs of America’s Families. Leader Pelosi reached out to invite MomsRising's executive director, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, to be among the leaders speaking at the event, and to invite...

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