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Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration

05/31/19

Earlier this month, in a post headlined, “For immigrants, fear, confusion, and a chilling effect,” we detailed how a Trump Administration rule not even implemented yet is harming immigrants and immigrant families. The piece was partly anecdotal; it reported, for instance, on a 9-year-old Latina...

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David Elliot

Health Care

05/31/19

More evidence surfaced this week that children continue to be the latest casualties of the Trump Administration. A new report shows that about 828,000 fewer children nationwide were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP at the end of 2018 than in 2017. That statistic is alarming because it could mean that...

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David Elliot

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Family Economic Security

05/31/19

VOICES: Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights icon and President of the Children's Defense Fund, maintains a regular column on the MomsRising blog. Read her latest post, Remembering Unita Blackwell , a beautiful and educational piece describing Blackwell's achievements and her many "firsts,"...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

05/31/19

As the school year ends and families look ahead to summer plans, I hope many will be able to consider travel that is not just a vacation, but an education and inspiration. Several years ago I had the opportunity to take my granddaughters with me to Selma, Alabama, where they got to meet Mrs. Amelia...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care

05/30/19

As Alabama was passing its total abortion ban, a friend posted a CNN clip that I didn’t watch in which a guest or the anchor seemed to imply that a fetus was akin to an organ in a woman’s body that she might choose do with as she pleases. My friend posed the following question with this post: “Will...

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Mimi Chapman

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Family Economic Security MomsVote Paid Family Leave

05/30/19

Happy spring! May has been an amazing month for our movement, from the joy and honor/memorial messages we shared with each other on Mother’s Day, to the legislative progress we celebrated on paid family and medical leave and maternal health. We also stood up and spoke out to protect our rights and...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

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MomsRising Open Flexible Work Realistic & Fair Wages

05/29/19

Discrimination is the last thing you should have to worry about when you’re pregnant, but even in 2019 pregnant workers are still being denied reasonable, medically-necessary accommodations at work (like extra water breaks or being able to sit down) because of loopholes in the 35 year old Pregnancy...

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Sara Alcid

Health Care

05/24/19

My mother was diagnosed with a mental illness years after arriving in the United States from Sri Lanka. Some of the doctors she saw believe her illness began as postpartum (maternal) depression that was unrecognized and undiagnosed years earlier. Since her diagnosis 30 years ago, my father and I...

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Isha Weerasinghe

Family Economic Security Health Care Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave

05/24/19

VICTORY IN NC! State employees of any North Carolina department, agency, board or commission under the oversight of the Governor can access up to eight weeks of paid parental leave after giving birth or four weeks of paid parental leave after a partner gives birth or to bond with and care for a...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Social & Emotional Development

05/24/19

I was deeply sorry to hear of the passing of my friend Mayor Unita Blackwell. She was one of a kind. She was always laughing and making other people laugh and she never stopped growing, learning, rolling with the punches, and punching back when she had to. As a civil rights activist, a member of...

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Marian Wright Edelman