Posted June 27, 2017 by Abbie Gately
This week, MomsRising staff members and volunteers from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have been joining together at different Senate offices across the three states to raise their voices and fight for health care. This trip has been inspiring. At every stop, powerful stories were shared with elected officials and their staff. Here is [...]
Posted June 22, 2017 by Donna
TAKE ACTIONWe have bad news to share and an URGENT need for you to take action ASAP to help save health care. Here’s the bad news: If there was a contest for the worst health care bill, the U.S. Senate Republicans’ bill, released this morning, would win it. It’s out of touch, out of line [...]
Posted June 27, 2017 by MomsRising
The score released by the Congressional Budget Office this afternoon confirms what was already painfully and unmistakably clear: The U.S. Senate health bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, is cruel, heartless, and would be a giant step backward for this country. It’s no wonder Republican leaders drafted this bill in secret, as it would take [...]
Posted June 27, 2017 by Nadia
Charleena was pregnant. A mother of four, struggling with a mental health crisis, she called the police to report a robbery. Charleena needed support and help. Instead she was killed by police in front of her young children. There is no question that the Seattle police department could have and should have used de-escalation tactics, [...]
Posted June 27, 2017 by Sara Alcid
The clock is ticking! We only have a handful of days left to make sure the Rhode Island state legislature passes the earned sick days bill this session! Thanks to Rhode Islanders like *you* speaking up for this family and economy-boosting policy, the RI Senate is holding a floor vote on the Healthy and Safe [...]
Posted June 27, 2017 by Felicia Willems
Heartless. Yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their analysis of the U.S. Senate Republican’s health care bill and confirmed what was already painfully and unmistakably clear: This bill is cruel, would be a giant step backward for this country, and would take health care away from 22 million people. *Sign on now! [...]
Posted June 26, 2017 by Alyssa Gavulic
Unfortunately, my life is anything but cliché. Sometimes I wish I could just easily fit into that predictable pattern that a stereotype would offer. But no, that’s not me. I grew up in a broken home as the oldest of 6 children with a variety of stepfathers that were less than qualified for the job [...]
Posted June 26, 2017 by Marian Wright Edelman
Might it be that this land with all of its richness, with all of its opportunity for true greatness, its opportunity to present itself before the world as what a nation ought to be, might not be sowing the seeds of its very destruction in abandonment of its children?-Dr. Gardner Taylor, Pastor Emeritus, Concord Baptist [...]
