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Posted October 23rd, 2012 by Ruth Martin
Are you headed to a town hall event, election forum, or did you just run into a candidate at the grocery store? Take along our handy list of sample questions that you can use to ask the candidates about issues that are important to women and families. Find out where your candidates stand! And, you don’t have [...]
Posted October 22nd, 2012 by Ruth Martin
This is it! The last presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle is tonight. And while the focus of the debate will be on foreign policy, we’re still planning to play presidential debate BINGO because who knows what will happen! Join us! Download your BINGO card here and then get online to watch the debate with [...]
Posted October 16th, 2012 by Ruth Martin
The whole MomsRising team is amped up about tonight’s town hall style presidential debate. We’ve got some burning questions including: Will debate moderator Candy Crowley ask the candidates about fair pay, paid leave, the exorbitant cost of child care, and other issues deeply important to women and moms? Will we be able to make BINGO [...]
Posted October 2nd, 2012 by Ruth Martin
Large groups gathering in Iowa in the early morning hours? People camping out in Ohio before the doors open? It’s starting! Early voting has begun: In Iowa, voters have been able to vote since last week. And when I flipped on the radio this morning, I heard that early voting begins today in Ohio. In [...]
Posted September 25th, 2012 by Ruth Martin
I’m a person who likes to double check – everything. Since becoming a mom, I’m now more of a triple checker. I double and triple check car seat buckles and diaper supplies. I double and triple check schedules with my husband, and I double and triple check if my daughter needs to go to the bathroom [...]
Posted September 14th, 2012 by Ruth Martin
I am so mad right now I can barely sit down to type this. At this moment I’m home from work with a sick baby. She spiked a fever in the middle of the night, woke up crying and hot with a fever over 101 degrees. She can’t go to childcare today. I’m home with [...]
Posted July 11th, 2012 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and Ruth Martin
The sun is out, children are splashing in pools, and people are, er… getting sick. That’s right. Everyone gets sick at some point in their lives from a cold, to a cough, or even worse. But did you know that not everyone has a chance to get better? A whopping 40 million people in the United [...]
Posted June 25th, 2012 by Ruth Martin
Good news: We’re expecting! We’re expecting that Congress will soon receive a special delivery message from moms and dads that families need paid family leave! The “stork” (i.e. MomsRising moms) will be delivering thousands of signatures to our open letter to Congress on Tuesday, July 10th. Have you signed on yet? *Help us reach our goal of 15,000 signatures for [...]
Posted June 14th, 2012 by Ruth Martin
Do you ever wonder what happens when we say that we’re going to hand deliver you stories, petitions, or signatures to elected leaders? We really do it and sometimes things go more smoothly than others. Last week I took both my daughters (one is 3 and the other is 9 months old) to help deliver [...]
Posted May 31st, 2012 by Ruth Martin
MomsRising is pleased to share the HERvotes blog carnival about the importance of the Paycheck Fairness Act! By Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women’s Law Center For this 14th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re blogging aboutequal pay and the need for the Paycheck Fairness Act – which will be on the Senate [...]
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