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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: October 18, 2019

Did you watch the first all-female spacewalk today? WOW! We are inspired. Now let's each be superstars by signing and sharing our list of top 5 Actions from the past week! We're kicking things off with an important flu season-related call for Congress to support the Healthy Families Act, which provides paid sick days to care for yourself of a loved one. We're also urging Congress and state governors to end youth incarceration, demanding a full impeachment inquiry, speaking out about abortion...
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Karen Showalter
October 18, 2019
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#GoodNews This Week: The Power of Sharing Our Personal Healthcare Stories

VOICES: We're featuring three moms' posts on healthcare this week. They were all so compelling, we couldn't choose just one. Leave a comment on the posts you read and let us know what you think, or share your own experiences. Thank you for being part of the MomsRising community! Single Mom Speaks Out On Affordable Health Care: "I Will Not Remain Silent" What I Still Need Policymakers to Know About Healthcare The Waiting Room TAKE ACTION: Keep the momentum going for impeachment! MomsRising...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
October 18, 2019
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What I Still Need Policymakers to Know About Health Care

Two years ago, I wrote a blogpost for Moms Rising about what I told Senators about my family’s health care needs. Two years later I need to speak again. My husband and I have two children with Down syndrome – a 16-year-old son and a 14 year-old daughter. Our daughter is nonverbal. Neither of my children will ever be able to live alone and both will need constant care for the rest of their lives. We are an average middle class family living in Arlington, VA just outside our nation’s capital...
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Suzanne Garwood
October 17, 2019

Deadline Approaching! Oppose HUD’s Attempt to Gut Critical Civil Rights Tool

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently proposed a rule that would gut a long-standing civil rights protection called “disparate impact theory” under the Fair Housing Act that has offered recourse for countless people experiencing housing discrimination and segregation. Disparate impact allows people to challenge housing policies or practices that have a discriminatory impact on them because of their race, color, national origin, sex, familial status, disability, or...
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Sarah Hassmer
October 16, 2019
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The Waiting Room

Yesterday in the waiting room at a therapist’s office, I met a chatty 4-year old. I told his parents he reminded me so much of my son five years ago. His mother sat up a little straighter. She turned to face me directly. She asked me to imagine I could go back and advise myself five years ago, knowing what I know now, what would I recommend? What has worked for my kid, helped him? I looked into her pleading, searching, anxious face. She got out a pen. I noticed her jovial, relaxed husband’s...
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Social & Emotional Development
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Tristin Aaron
October 11, 2019

Single Mom Speaks Out On Affordable Health Care: "I Will Not Remain Silent"

I am a single mom with a son whom I have financially supported on my own for 22 years. I am an artist/small business owner. I proudly watched my son graduate from college last June. Me and Juan right after g.jpg Trust me, it has not been an easy road. The most difficult challenge over the years was paying for the escalating costs of health insurance before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect. Health insurance is essential because without insurance there is no health care. My 51-year-...
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Nina Borgia-Aberle
October 15, 2019
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Voices for Healthy Kids SNAP Incentives Series: Massachusetts Food System Collaborative

"I think the broader you can make the issue of hunger, the more successful your efforts will be. It’s critical that people have enough to eat and can access nutritious food, but if you connect that issue to economic development, to supporting farmers, to improving public health then it becomes a conversation that involves everyone and everyone becomes invested in helping it succeed.”
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Stephanie Vaughn
October 11, 2019
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Keep the momentum going for impeachment!

It’s time to double down on speaking up: President Trump’s White House announced this week it won’t cooperate with the impeachment inquiry at all. The stakes couldn’t be higher! Our children are counting on us. *We must make sure President Trump is held accountable for using taxpayer money and the promise of a meeting to try to obtain dirt from a foreign nation on a Democratic challenger in the 2020 elections. This is a dangerous and illegal abuse of power, but Congress will only act if...
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Felicia Burnett
October 10, 2019

Get An Early Start on 2020 – Host a Super Voter Treasure Box!

The 2020 election is more than a year away, but families across the country are telling us that they can’t wait to vote! One of the voting challenges we hear most often is that it can be hard to wait in long polling place lines with children. That’s why we couldn’t be more excited to announce the launch of our Super Voter Treasure Boxes for 2020! The treasure boxes come fully stocked with bubbles, small toys, stickers, tattoos, and all sorts of fun stuff to keep the kids occupied while parents...
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Dorie Klein
October 4, 2019

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