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Protecting and caring for LGBTQ+ kids and teens

To say this is a fraught Pride Month for LGBTQ+ folks and their allies is truly an understatement. This year’s celebration comes as big swaths of the country are debating and legislating, and getting hysterical about, the very existence of trans kids. How can we, as people who are raising, teaching, and caring for LGBTQ+ kids and teens, support them as we strive to keep them safe?
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Parenting & Families
MomsRising Education Fund
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Alexis Bleich, LCSW, MA
June 1, 2023
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Honor Moms Every Day Mother’s Day Picnic! 

We want to thank all our wonderful members -- and over members of Congress -- for joining our inspiring day to honor our moms and stand for policies that lift families!
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Hanna Addis
May 19, 2023
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Yes you May !!! MOMentum's Inside

This May you sparked significant, powerful, and beautiful Mother’s Day MOMentum.
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Kerri Karvetski
June 1, 2023

Top #5Actions of the Past Week: Friday, May 26, 2023

SIGN NOW to protect WIC! WIC is getting attacked from all angles. The House Republican budget not only holds our families hostage by calling for across-the-board cuts to programs like WIC in order to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default in the next two weeks, they also want to gut fruit and vegetable benefits by nearly 62%, dramatically decreasing access to nutritious foods for nearly five million women and kids enrolled in the program. With rising food costs, and increased program...
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Families & The Federal Budget Maternal Justice Politics & Policy
MomsRising Together
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Sue Anne Reed
May 26, 2023

A moral outrage: Less food, rising prices, potential budget default!

Have you recently left the grocery store wondering how anyone can afford food? Me too. The truth is not many people can. The rising cost of food is making it difficult for moms, grandparents, and families to put food on the table. And worse still, many families who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also called Food Stamps and EBT) saw their monthly benefits drop in February. Now, even more families are having to choose between eating and paying rent or other...
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Family Economic Security Food!
MomsRising Together
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Joy Ikekhua
May 15, 2023

TAKE ACTION to stop the GOP from defaulting on our families!

Breaking news! We are an estimated 22 days away from the GOP-created debt ceiling crisis becoming a world-wide problem. [1] If Congress doesn’t take immediate action to raise the debt ceiling, like Trump did three times on his watch [2], we will– for the first time in history – default, leading to a domino effect of economic downturn, layoffs, increased poverty, and a recession. No one wants that! Earlier this week President Biden and Democrats in Congress held firm while the Republican...
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Families & The Federal Budget
MomsRising Together
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Elyssa Schmier
May 15, 2023

What NH moms need in the state budget!

It’s go time in the New Hampshire legislature! Thanks to all your advocacy, we’ve seen some huge wins so far this year – and we need your help again! Let’s keep that MOMentum going as the Senate Finance committee works on the state budget. → Send a quick email to the Senate Finance committee asking them to build and support a state budget that supports New Hampshire moms and our families. They need to include: The Child Care for New Hampshire Working Families Act: a comprehensive bill that will...
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Childcare & Early Education
MomsRising Together
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MacKenzie Nicholson
May 15, 2023

Show support for free school meals for all in NC!

MomsRising members are on-the-ground right now at the NC General Assembly urging our state lawmakers to include funding for school meals for all in the budget this legislative session. Will you back us up? → Can you back us up by sending your lawmaker a note right now? Our message urging lawmakers to fund school meals for all in NC is much more powerful if your lawmakers are hearing from you by email at the same time that they’re seeing us walk the halls of the General Assembly! The urgency to...
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Family Economic Security Food!
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Jessica Burroughs
May 11, 2023

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week Reminds Us That Our Stories Matter

It is often the stories that we don’t share that are amongst the most important ones. I know that after I gave birth to my son 21 years ago no one knew that I was hardly eating and regularly crying both in private and in public. It was only years later that I felt comfortable sharing that with others. And yet it might have helped me, and other women, to open up about what I was going through . That way I may have been able to receive the proper support as well as help other new mothers to not...
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Maternal Justice
MomsRising Education Fund
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Gina Arias
May 1, 2023

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