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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

08/21/17

Quality, affordable healthcare coverage is incredibly important to families in the U.S. MomsRising has recieved thousands of messages from our volunteers with stories about why the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare matter for the health of their families. This #...

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Isabella Higgins

Immigration

08/21/17

Do you remember Joaquin Luna Jr. ? I do. He was a high school kid living in Texas. His family were undocumented immigrants. He was born in Mexico and brought to the U.S. as an infant. In his senior year he applied to college, only found out that he wasn’t an American on paper. After the Senate’s...

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To-wen Tseng

Family Economic Security Health Care

08/21/17

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Isabella Higgins

Breastfeeding Health Care Maternal Justice Military Families

08/21/17

Recently I went to a local Modern Quilt Guild’s meeting. It was a “sit’n’sew” meeting, meaning women can sew together for 5 hours, with no other distractions. Boy, did I love the sound of that, just me, my sewing machine, and new quilting friends. As I sat and listened at the beginning of the...

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Jenna Barton

Family Economic Security Health Care

08/20/17

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Isabella Higgins

Health Care Politics & Policy

08/19/17

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Isabella Higgins

Social & Emotional Development

08/19/17

Last weekend as a state of emergency was being declared in Charlottesville, I decided to call an emergency family meeting in my home. The kids rolled their eyes and put up a fuss in normal kid fashion but as parents, my husband and I are not ones to shy away from tough issues or current events. As...

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Sonia Smith-Kang

Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising

08/18/17

This piece is published in partnership with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together Program. Pregnancy is one of the most life-changing times in someone’s life — usually in multiple lives. My five year journey into reproductive health was ignited after attending my first birth as a doula (a non-medical...

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Bianca Campbell

Maternal Justice

08/18/17

Thanks to your signatures, 7.5 months pregnant Kandace Washington was released from jail on bond. Now, your donation is urgently needed. We are fundraising the $1,100 to cover the court and jail fees that it took to free Kandace. Court and jail fees disproportionately prey on low-income communities of color, further perpetuating cycles of poverty.

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