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Childcare & Early Education Immigration MomsVote

11/16/19

The headlines this week have been hard. There’s so much need for our voices, and for your voice. So we want to start into the weekend by sharing our gratitude with you for all you’re doing to make our nation a better place for everyone. This week's list of top actions includes urgent calls around...

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Karen Showalter

MomsRising

11/13/19

When moms rise, BIG things happen. Like igniting democracy! In fact, for the recent elections last week, MomsRising members like you generated a MASSIVE amount of get-out-the-vote energy — by sending thousands upon thousands of hand-written voter postcards to infrequent mom voters, by making...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Family Economic Security Immigration MomsVote

11/08/19

Happy Friday! Did you vote this week? When moms RISE, things happen. Big things. This year, to get out the vote for the Virginia elections, moms sent a massive number of GOTV texts & hand-written postcards to low frequency mom voters, made videos to inspire other moms to vote, shared stories,...

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Karen Showalter

Health Care Maternal Justice MomsVote Politics & Policy Podcast

11/07/19

There’s an all new episode of our Breaking Through podcast show this week where we cover all the many GOOD things that could be done with the funds Trump wants to use for his ridiculous wall. We also talk about Breast Cancer Awareness month and how women’s healthcare is under attack. And you can...

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Amber Dorsey

Food! Politics & Policy

11/07/19

Voices for Healthy Kids has funded Eat Smart, Move More South Carolina (ESMMSC) since 2014. Recently, the coalition, working with the South Carolina affiliate of the American Heart Association (AHA) and others, successfully pursued healthy vending policies in several cities around the state, including the passage of one of the country’s strongest vending and food service policies in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Stephanie Vaughn

Health Care

11/07/19

This year, we released our ninth annual report tracking children’s health insurance coverage and the findings were alarming: Between 2016 and 2018, the number of uninsured children in the U.S. increased by more than 400,000, bringing the total number of uninsured children to over 4 million in the...

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Families & The Federal Budget Immigration

11/06/19

We’ve all been hearing about the depths of cruelty of the Trump Administration’s family separation policies for a while, but the extent of that cruelty is still being discovered. Horrifyingly, just last week, the ACLU discovered 1,556 more immigrant families were separated than previously estimated...

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Elyssa Schmier

Medicaid Helps Families Weather The Storm

Health Care

11/04/19

More than half a million North Carolinians—many who are parents—can’t see a doctor when they need one because reliable health insurance is out of reach. Yet, the NC legislative session just ended without expanding Medicaid. What-is-the-Gap.jpg Across North Carolina, thousands of low-income families...

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Felicia Burnett

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MomsVote

11/04/19

WOW! If your emails, social media posts, postcard parties, pledges to vote, and overall enthusiasm are any indication-- you all are MORE than ready to vote tomorrow, November 5th! LET'S DO THIS.

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Anita Sarah Jackson

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MomsVote Paid Sick Days

11/01/19

Happy October! This month has been overflowing like a Halloween candy bowl with progress and wins by and for women, moms and families! In this month's newsletter you'll find good news from North Carolina on earned sick leave, terrific photos and messages from MomsRising supporters energized to...

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Anita Sarah Jackson