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09/20/17

Happy Back to School! It's that time of year when the kids head back, the weather turns cooler, and everything seems to accelerate a bit. It's also a great time of year to make some friendly noise for healthy schools! We have done so much in recent years, from implementing new healthy meal...

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Karen Showalter

Health Care Politics & Policy

09/20/17

Yikes! Health care is under attack again—and we need to do everything we can to protect our health care! This is an emergency: The new Cassidy-Graham bill that’s being proposed is even more harmful and destructive to our health care than previous bills and would take away coverage from tens of...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care Politics & Policy

09/20/17

Senate leaders are trying one more time to repeal the ACA and strip coverage from millions, and they’re trying to do it in the next 1.5 weeks. Act now.

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Lecia Imbery

Health Care

09/20/17

The most recent effort to roll back health care harms women, moms, children and our economy. It is unconscionable and destructive. It’s time for President Trump and the Republican leaders in Congress to listen to what their constituents and the data are saying: Improve health care, don’t destroy it...

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Environmental Health Social & Emotional Development

09/19/17

It’s hard enough to watch. The daily barrage of shocking images of flood-ravaged homes, displaced families, chaotic shelters and stories of missing loved ones. It is heart wrenching as a viewer, which is absolutely no comparison to those who are living the experience of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma...

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Diana N. Derige

Health Care

09/19/17

Not on OUR watch will we let health care coverage be rolled back for more than 20 million people! It's time to make some calls...again... TODAY ... because health care is on the chopping block yet again: ***Call your US Senators at: 1-888-496-4842 and tell them #ProtectOurCare! --> People have...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care Politics & Policy

09/19/17

It’s not yet October, but it seems that some extremists in the U.S. Senate and Pres. Trump are bringing out the zombies—in the form of yet another ridiculous and damaging Obamacare (health care) repeal bill! Boo. **We can’t let this bill pass! Sign on now to tell your U.S. Senator: Protect our...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care

09/19/17

I never thought much about people with disabilities until my son was born. As far as I was concerned, they existed in a different universe from the one I occupied. Then Ethan came into my life. He was perfect and I loved him unconditionally….and within a few weeks of his birth I found out he was...

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Regan Lamphier

Military Families

09/18/17

Dear New Teacher, Today my child enters your classroom for the first time in a new school . It might be the first day of the school year, or it might be inconveniently smack-dab in the middle of a grading period. He likely knows no one in his homeroom class, likely no other children in the school...

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National Military Family Association

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

09/15/17

We know what to do to end child poverty if we want to in rich America. The U.S. Census Bureau reported this week that the number of children in poverty declined slightly again for the second year, but that children shamefully are still our poorest age group. More than 13.2 million children – 18...

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