Politics & Policy

April 1, 2016

March 31 is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last Sunday sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in 1968 before his assassination four days later: “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution”. Dr. King said he believed a triple revolution was taking place in the world...

MomsRising Together

Marian Wright Edelman

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

March 31, 2016

Members of Congress like to talk about securing the future for our children and grandchildren. Instead, Congress has foreclosed opportunity for many thousands of children because of its irresponsible failure to protect them from lead poison. Congress needs to come back and ensure that all children now threatened by such toxic inaction have the protection and services they need.

MomsRising Together

Debbie Weinstein

Environmental Health Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

March 28, 2016

Counting Care In - a free webinar on April 14 about valuing care and raising women's status.

MomsRising Together

Valerie Young

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

March 25, 2016

A new report confirms what many Americans feel every day: the wage gap between the top and everyone else continued to grow. To ensure a rising tide indeed lifts all boats, we need to raise the minimum wage, eliminate the gender wage gap, and expand overtime protections.

MomsRising Together

Lecia Imbery

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

March 21, 2016

President Obama’s got a handful of great ideas in his budget proposal: free community college, universal preschool, and more. But he still proposes to spend more than half of our federal discretionary budget on the Pentagon and military – and only a small fraction of that actually goes to our...

MomsRising Together

Lindsay Koshgarian

Environmental Health Politics & Policy

March 18, 2016

I had to have a plumber fix a few leaky faucets at my house today and he needed to shut off the water for two hours. I had time to prepare and made sure I wouldn’t need to use any water. The crisis in Flint, Michigan has been on my mind for months. But today, during the meager two hours when I used...

MomsRising Together

Anna Benyo

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

March 18, 2016

The same members of Congress who pushed for corporate tax breaks without offsets are now the ones calling for cuts to low-income programs to reduce the debt.

MomsRising Together

Lecia Imbery

Politics & Policy

March 11, 2016

“I am an insider serving a life and 20 year sentence at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. Twenty-six years ago I was rendered infamous by the State of Tennessee through a judicial process of ‘thingafication,’ replacing my identity with a capitalistic signature, 133881. Since then, at 19 years...

MomsRising Together

Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

March 11, 2016

Imagine what our country could do with an additional $695 billion. Imagine the number of schools we could build. The number of teachers we could hire (and the decent salaries we could pay!) The number of child care and early childhood education slots we could fill. Imagine how we could combat...

MomsRising Together

David Elliot

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

March 10, 2016

MKD Family Photo 2015.jpg Google family calendar. Outlook work calendar. The calendar app that syncs my electronic calendars on my phone. My 2016 annual planner. The calendar that hangs on my kitchen wall. These are the tools that I use every day (in the attempt) to keep my schedule organized. As a...

MomsRising Together