family economic security

September 30, 2013

Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí . Many people go through or know someone who is unable to pay their high health insurance premiums, impacting their health, ruining their finances or avoiding the opportunity of preventing a life-threatening illness. After immigration policies, the lack to access to health insurance has been the main issue impacting the quality of life and the development of Latino immigrants. Since 2010, this fundamental limitation is changing for many Latinos due to the approval of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Since its implementation,...

Ruth Vasquez

September 30, 2013

For English, click here . Muchos vivimos o supimos de alguien quien por la imposibilidad de pagar altas primas de seguro médico, había deteriorado su salud, arruinado sus finanzas o perdido la oportunidad de prevenir una enfermedad mortal. Después de las leyes migratorias, si algo había mermado la calidad de vida y el avance de los latinos en el retador camino de adaptarse a un nuevo país, había sido la falta de coberturas médicas a precios accesibles. Esta fundamental limitación está cambiando para muchos hispanos desde 2010, con la aprobación del Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (...

Ruth Vasquez

family economic security healthcare

September 25, 2013

How badly do some in Congress want to stop healthcare reform from rolling out? So badly that on the eve of implementation they’re ready to tank our nation’s credit rating—significantly damaging our economy—by holding the debt limit hostage in an attempt to stop affordable healthcare options from being extended to tens of millions of Americans. That’s how far they’re ready to go. How far are you ready to go to protect our economy—and to see your family, friends, and neighbors have access to affordable healthcare? Tell Congress: Stop messing around with our national budget and economy. Get out...

Elyssa Koidin Schmier

childcare & early education family economic security politics & policy

September 25, 2013

Last week Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, S. 1533. It might not seem obvious, but Sen. Levin’s bill, which would close corporate tax loopholes and eliminate incentives for shipping jobs and profits overseas, would be a HUGE help for families and children in America. You might be asking yourself: What do tax havens have to do with motherhood and raising a family? Fair question. When corporations hide their profits offshore and avoid paying their fair share of taxes struggling families have to pick up the bill. On top of buying school supplies, groceries and gas...

Margarida Jorge

childcare & early education family economic security Food!

September 22, 2013

Officially, the Great Recession ended in 2009. But after three years of “recovery,” there were 6.7 million more people living in poverty than in 2008, a recession year. We’ve been stuck with 15 percent of our people in poverty for three years. In the 2008 recession year, 13.2 percent were poor. Forty-six million poor people is a big and troubling number. But that is only part of the story of unshared recovery. More than one-third of us – 106 million people – are near poor, living one lay-off or health disaster away from very hard times. (For a family of four, if your income was below $23,492...

Debbie Weinstein

family economic security Food!

September 20, 2013

This story first appeared on BiculturalMom.com . I grew up on Food Stamps. As a child that's all I knew. Well, that, and the long lines we waited in for cheese, butter and powered milk at the end of the month when food ran out. Or the glare looks from men and women in the grocery lines as my mother reached for her book of Food Stamps. As I got older, I learned to be embarrassed about our situation. I dreaded those eyes...all the people watching, and the comments my mom got for being a mother to four children and poor. I've talked before about how these types of situations created self-doubt...

Chantilly Patiño

open flexible work family economic security

September 20, 2013

Listen-up employers of America…I’m going to give you five reasons why you should hire more of us – the women who want to work, yet need to be at school for pick-up at three o’clock.

CT Working Moms

family economic security

September 20, 2013

Games are a time-honored way of expanding people's knowledge. My mom, who was a single mother throughout my elementary school years, played games with my brother and I in the grocery store when we were young to help make the price right for purchasing our family food on a very limited budget. When we went to the store, my mom would hold contests between my brother and I to see who could find the items on our grocery list in the least expensive brand, and to see who could find the sale items on the coupon list the fastest. At the time, I thought my mom was the only one who played this...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

paid sick days family economic security politics & policy

August 31, 2013

Shaniqua , a 20-year-old mother, works for McDonald’s in New York City, where she can rarely get 40 hours a week. She struggles to afford food, diapers, and other basics. Nick , a McDonald’s worker in Indianapolis, survives on $800 per month while caring for his chronically ill mother and disabled brother. Medical bills from a recent sinus infection cost him nearly a month’s wages. Dearius , an assistant manager at a Memphis Church’s Chicken, says fast food workers are tired of struggling to provide for their kids. And Shonda , a 38-year-old mother of three who works at a KFC in Oakland, says...

Liz Ben-Ishai

environmental health family economic security open flexible work

August 30, 2013

What is a MomsRising Tweetchat? MomsRising tweetchats are opportunities to discuss core issue areas related to the economic security and well being of moms and families (like healthcare or food justice) by using a subject specific hashtag. We invite experts in the field to answer member questions, share the latest resources, and invite members to discuss their own views on the topics. The various issue areas have their own time slots and often repeat weekly at a pre-determined time, but sometimes we may have special issue tweetchats on other days that we advertise in advance. Joining our...