While the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Giffords has postponed the vote to repeal health care reform, we still expect the vote to happen within the next few weeks. We need your help to educate the public and Congress. The fact of the matter is repealing the new health care law known as the Affordable Care Act [...]
Faster than a speeding bullet, John Boehner, the new Speaker of the House, announced that the House will vote on January 12th to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform bill. Not so fast, partner. Send a strong message to Congress that moms and dads are standing up for our kids and families [...]
Moms are good at sniffing out trickery. We’ve detected green beans stuffed in napkins, ratted out feigned illnesses with our trusty thermometers, and we’re pretty sure the dog didn’t eat that missing homework. So, when some of our elected leaders tell us that they can afford to extend tax cuts for the rich, but can’t [...]
It’s November and the holidays are fast approaching. But will out of work families be left out in the cold? On November 30, federal unemployment insurance is set to expire. Yet millions of families are relying on extended federal unemployment insurance to stay afloat financially. MomsRising members themselves have shared story after story about the [...]
This Halloween, we asked MomsRising members to share their stories of the scary job market and the response was, indeed, frightening. We received over a hundred stories from all across the country sharing the trauma of not being able to find work during a time in which there’s only one job opening for every five [...]
That bone chilling, pit of fear in your stomach feeling. Could it be Halloween? Or possibly, could it be the very scary job market? Currently more than one in six working age adults – or 26.8 million people – are either unemployed or underemployed. And it’s tough to find a job when there’s only one [...]
My kids can tell you, I’m an expert worrier. I worry about whether I’m pushing them too hard or maybe not pushing them hard enough; whether their fear of vegetables will cause permanent damage to them; and whether they are getting enough exercise or alternatively, whether their favorite exercise of the season, playing football, is [...]
It’s back to school time, but unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean back to sports for every child who wants to play on a team. Each year, many children who want to participate in school or community sports can’t play. They’re sidelined from sports because they don’t have health insurance, which leaves many parents unable to [...]
True story. I’m sitting on the beach with my kids earlier this week having a relaxing vacation in California and two buff twenty year old surfer dudes come over and say they are from “Grassroots Company,” or some such thing, and they want my signature to repeal health care reform. Sometimes, there’s just no getting [...]
About a decade ago I received a distraught call from my high school friend, Mark, telling me that his son had just been diagnosed with cancer at his one year old well child visit with the pediatrician. A decade later, he called to say that his son’s life had been saved by this checkup. He [...]
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