It’s coming right up. And I’m trying to remember to pack some Kleenex. In response to Georgia’s new anti-immigrant law, on September 28 and 29th I will be representing MomsRising on a delegation of women’s organizations traveling to Atlanta, Georgia, to bear witness to the law’s effect on women, children and families. The National Women’s [...]
“My husband and I were denied a home loan last year due to my being on maternity leave. It was a tremendously frustrating experience, as I was employed and on a federally protected leave; though I was told that in the eyes of the lender, I was unemployed.” – Olivia, California There’s hardly a need [...]
“My husband and I were denied a home loan last year due to my being on maternity leave. It was a tremendously frustrating experience, as I was employed and on a federally protected leave; though was told that in the eyes of the lender, I was unemployed.” – Olivia, California Discrimination against mothers in our nation [...]
Good news! The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced this afternoon at a news conference that they reached a settlement agreement with a mortgage company that denied a new mom a home loan simply because she was on maternity leave. Emma Cooper-Serber, LMSW / MPH, a NYC MomsRising member and mother of a three year old [...]
We just heard about this appalling article in Psychology Today from our friends at ColorOfChange.org. Gabriel (on their staff) gave us the go-ahead to share their email about this. Here’s what the ColorOfChange team writes: ************** Nearly 20 years after a black parent documented how hard it was to hear, “Mommy, I want to be white,”1 [...]
Odds are, if you are a mom, you’re one of the 72 percent of women in the United States who support the DREAM Act. [1] But we want to know why. First, a quick refresher: The DREAM Act is short for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. Currently, undocumented immigrant children who were brought [...]
Por Mary Olivella, Elisa Batista, y Julissa Gomez Traducido con ayuda de Julissa Gomez y Ricardo Mosso 18 de octubre 2010 Es probable, si usted es madre que es parte del 72% de mujeres en los Estados Unidos que apoya la ley conocida como el “DREAM Act.” (1) Pero queremos saber sus razones. El proyecto [...]
When it rains it pours, and that’s a bad thing when it comes to discrimination against mothers. We recently wrote about a mom whose application for a mortgage loan was turned down because she was on maternity leave, and we also shared the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has launched [...]
The Housing and Urban Development Agency is filing charges of housing discrimination against Pennsylvania property owners and managers who wouldn’t rent to a mother and her daughter. Outrageous! MomsRising applauds the action HUD is taking to investigate and correct discrimination against families seeking housing. See HUD’s press release below. And if you have experienced being [...]
A public health approach to reducing health disparities across economic lines involves looking for “upstream solutions.” By walking upstream and understanding why people are falling in the river in the first place, we can be more effective in saving lives than by focusing all our resources on pulling the drowning people out of the river downstream. Applying this [...]
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