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Take Action!

03/17/16

Whether it’s walking pneumonia or the flu, germs happen and kids and parents get sick. It’s just a fact. This is why allowing people to earn paid sick days as they work is pure common sense! Join me in calling on the U.S. Department of Labor to move paid sick days forward for over 800,000 employees...

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Sara Alcid

Paid Family Leave

03/17/16

Access to paid family (maternity, paternity, medical) leave shouldn’t be as rare as finding a four-leaf clover, but for too many New York families it feels that way. New York Senators in Albany are considering paid family leave legislation right now. Take a moment to send a quick message to your...

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Sili Recio

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Food!

03/16/16

For many in the United States a supermarket is a luxury. Small retail food stores, and bodegas, are their only option for purchasing foods and beverages. Helping identify basic, minimum stocking levels, as well as marketing strategies, that the stores can use to help with the sale of healthy foods...

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Migdalia Rivera

Health Care

03/15/16

As a mother of three and grandmother of six, my family’s happiness and well-being is of utmost importance to me. Like so many of you, there is nothing better than seeing my granddaughters’ and grandsons’ smiles or hearing them burst into laughter. However, for many children, those smiles are few...

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Fern Ingber

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MomsVote

03/15/16

My eight year old son is super interested in this year's election. He's just beginning to grasp how important a President is in leading our country so he's eager to find out who these candidates are and what they are saying. There's just one HUGE problem - I can't let him watch the debates anymore...

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Ashley Boyd

Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days

03/14/16

WE DID IT! Paid sick days are now the law in the Green Mountain State.

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Sara Alcid

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Military Families

03/14/16

As a momma to 5 active little monkeys, babywearing has become essential for me to successfully get through each day. More times than not I have at least one child on my front, back, or side. Sometimes I have 2 on me. Sometimes even 3! But I didn't start my journey as a mom this way. Sure I'd use a...

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Kati Poston

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

03/11/16

Imagine what our country could do with an additional $695 billion. Imagine the number of schools we could build. The number of teachers we could hire (and the decent salaries we could pay!) The number of child care and early childhood education slots we could fill. Imagine how we could combat...

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David Elliot

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

03/11/16

There were 7 million of you out there, many of them moms, who recently missed out on the Earned Income Tax Credit. The EITC is a key opportunity during tax time for working Americans to infuse some cash into their households. For a filer with children -- this averaged to $3074 in 2013. Yet, year...

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Rose Afriyie

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

03/11/16

With the arrival of warm weather, health officials in the U.S. say it is not a matter of if but when we will see a widespread outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Are we ready for it? No, we are not. Stateline , an initiative of Pew Charitable Trusts, recently reported that budget cuts at the...

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David Elliot