Children
Posted December 2nd, 2011 by Andrea Powell
On December 2nd, FAIR Girls (an agency I co-founded in 2003 to help find and empower high risk and exploited girls) and fifty-three leading anti-trafficking experts and organizations sent a letter to Village Voice Media demanding the immediate and permanent removal of the Adult section of its subsidiary’s Web site Backpage.com where advertisements placed by [...]
Posted November 30th, 2011 by Kristen Golden Testa
Since when is 14,000 no different than 5,000? When the U.S. Treasury Department estimates the affordability of a family’s health insurance. If it goes uncorrected, their fuzzy math may deny affordable health coverage to 270,000 Californians–122,000 of whom are children. While premiums continue to rise across the board, families face particularly steep increases. Since 2003, [...]
Posted November 22nd, 2011 by Emily Butera
Emily Butera is the Senior Program Officer for Detention and Asylum at the Women’s Refugee Commission Maribel was driving in Virginia with her one-year-old child when she was pulled over by a police officer, who asked to see her driver’s license. A Mexican citizen living in the U.S. without a visa, Maribel was arrested for [...]
Posted November 8th, 2011 by Kerala Taylor
Raise your hand if you believe that your kids need time and space to play outdoors! Here’s the sad truth: There is a Play Deficit in our country, and it’s harming our children. Too many families don’t have a playground within walking distance of their home. Paranoia is trumping common sense, resulting in sterile, uninspired [...]
Posted November 2nd, 2011 by Miriam Feffer
Turned to your favorite news source lately? You’ve surely noticed that as another election season gathers steam, the so-called “civil” servants jockeying to represent us spend their time trying to pummel each other with barbs and bile. The conversation never seems to turn to vital issues like the safety of the air we breathe or [...]
Posted October 26th, 2011 by Cassi at the Crafty Crow
(This blog is a part of the MomsRising Early Learning Halloween Campaign. Budget numbers are flying around like bats on Halloween night right now–and we need to make sure Congress understands how important early childhood education is in their budgets. Visit our Congressional-Halloween-Costume-Creation-Station and create a card complete with a costume of your choice; then send your unique [...]
Posted October 26th, 2011 by Nancy Dorsner
(This blog is a part of the MomsRising Early Learning Halloween Campaign. Budget numbers are flying around like bats on Halloween night right now–and we need to make sure Congress understands how important early childhood education is in their budgets. Visit our Congressional-Halloween-Costume-Creation-Station and create a card complete with a costume of your choice; then send your unique [...]
Posted October 24th, 2011 by Claire Moshenberg
Family dinners, backyard BBQs, even that rare long lunch with old friends: Food brings us together, and helps us make memories. Today is Food Day, and we’re celebrating the power and the possibility of food. Thousands of people across the country are coming together to alleviate hunger, improve health, protect the earth, and protect workers, [...]
Posted October 18th, 2011 by Jared Solomon
The recent release of the new census data should serve as a stark reminder to the 12 members of the Congressional “Super Committee” that our nation’s children are in crisis. Overall, the data revealed that the number of children living in poverty has risen to a record 16 million. That’s greater than the combined population [...]
Posted October 17th, 2011 by Donald Cohen
Cross-posted from CryWolfProject.org. An apple a day and eating your peas led to good health, we once thought. Now, according to major food manufacturers, fruits and vegetables are “job killers” that will devastate the American economy. In April of this year, the Federal Trade Commission, along with three other Federal agencies (FDA, CDC and USDA), [...]
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