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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Podcast

05/29/17

On the radio show this week we cover the latest on healthcare and what you can do to make sure it isn’t cut for 23 million people; the terrible, awful, no good, very bad budget that Trump proposed and how to stop it; paid family and medical leave in the United States of America; and why David...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Breastfeeding Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care MomsRising Politics & Policy

05/26/17

It’s an emergency! Your voice is needed — and is powerful! Sign up to drop by your members of Congress' office(s) to drop off, or share, important materials on health care and SNAP (food stamps). We'll send you everything you need for a successful visit! Sign up here: http://action.momsrising.org/...

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Casey Osborn-Hinman

MomsRising MomsVote

05/26/17

Traditional gender roles die hard. Recently, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation shared new research on how women candidates can talk about their families and their personal lives on the campaign trail. What we learned: Voters still question how women can serve constituents and take care of family...

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Adrienne Kimmell

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

05/26/17

image2.JPG The moment they brought my baby girl to my arms, the only words that came out of my mouth where in Spanish. Since I married an English speaker, and realized we would be raising our family in a small town in North GA, I felt fear that my children would not be able to communicate with my...

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Natalia DuTeau

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

05/25/17

Today, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) along with Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2017 – legislation that would immediately increase the federal minimum wage to $9.25 per hour, increasing the minimum wage...

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Paid Sick Days

05/25/17

Governor Hogan’s veto of the Healthy Working Families Act is a huge disappointment and a betrayal of Maryland’s working families, and of the legislators in both the state House and Senate who passed it. Currently, 750,000 working people in Maryland do not have any paid sick days they can use to...

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

05/25/17

Twenty-three million fewer Americans would receive coverage if the American Health Care Act becomes law – yet another sign that this so-called health care reform bill is one of the most destructive acts ever to emerge from Congress. We also know that people with pre-existing conditions could be...

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Debbie Weinstein

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

05/25/17

Welcome to another installment of #MomsReading! In this series, we discuss books and activities that parents and care providers can use to build a child’s social and emotional development. The rest of the posts in the series can be found here . Social-emotional skills support the success of...

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Abbie Gately

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

05/24/17

Minority health programs cut by 10 percent. Juvenile justice programs cut nearly in half. Housing for the elderly cut by 46 percent; housing for people with disabilities cut nearly 57 percent. Job training to assist ex-offenders reintegrating into their communities cut nearly 28 percent. Out of the...

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Lecia Imbery

Health Care MomsRising Near You Paid Family Leave

05/24/17

I have had it. This morning I got another GoFundMe request in my inbox. This time it is to support the treatment for the mother of a teammate on my son’s lacrosse team. She will need to have surgery in the next two weeks to remove a brain tumor. I don’t know her well, but I do know she is a single...

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