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06/27/17

Heartless. Yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their analysis of the U.S. Senate Republican’s health care bill and confirmed what was already painfully and unmistakably clear: This bill is cruel, would be a giant step backward for this country, and would take...

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Felicia Burnett

Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

06/27/17

The clock is ticking! We only have a handful of days left to make sure the Rhode Island state legislature passes the earned sick days bill!

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Sara Alcid

Gun Safety Maternal Justice

06/27/17

Charleena was pregnant. A mother of four, struggling with a mental health crisis, she called the police to report a robbery. Charleena needed support and help. Instead she was killed by police in front of her young children. There is no question that the Seattle police department could have and...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Health Care MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

06/27/17

This week, MomsRising staff members and volunteers from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have been joining together at different Senate offices across the three states to raise their voices and fight for health care. This trip has been inspiring. At every stop, powerful stories were shared...

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Abbie Gately

Health Care

06/27/17

The score released by the Congressional Budget Office this afternoon confirms what was already painfully and unmistakably clear: The U.S. Senate health bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, is cruel, heartless, and would be a giant step backward for this country. It’s no wonder Republican...

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Family Economic Security Health Care MomsRising

06/27/17

Many thanks to Tucson- and Denver-area MomsRising members for sharing their stories on health care and SNAP with Senator John McCain and Senator Cory Gardner respectively. Stories are powerful and they are essential. Share your own healthcare story here: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/...

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Casey Osborn-Hinman

Radio!

Health Care Podcast

06/26/17

On the radio show this week we cover the GOP effort to gut healthcare and what you can do about it; who voted what way and why in the election; how our policies need to change to mirror our population; and breastfeeding controversies. Along the way we cover tips and tactics for building a better...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

06/26/17

Might it be that this land with all of its richness, with all of its opportunity for true greatness, its opportunity to present itself before the world as what a nation ought to be, might not be sowing the seeds of its very destruction in abandonment of its children? -Dr. Gardner Taylor, Pastor...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Military Families

06/26/17

Unfortunately, my life is anything but cliché. Sometimes I wish I could just easily fit into that predictable pattern that a stereotype would offer. But no, that’s not me. I grew up in a broken home as the oldest of 6 children with a variety of stepfathers that were less than qualified for the job...

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Alyssa Gavulic

MomsRising Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

06/23/17

We commend North Carolina state legislators for raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction for misdemeanors and low-level felonies in the budget they passed yesterday. This puts an end to the days when 16- and 17-year-olds were automatically prosecuted as adults, even for the most minor offenses...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner