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Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

The loss of my husband's job could not have come at a worst time for us. I work part-time at a supermarket, and the way the economy is my hours were further cut. The unemployment checks we received helped a great deal, and we were able to survive. But our nightmare began after the year was up, and...

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Elisanta Batista

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

This time of year, many are planning their Thanksgiving menu and visits with family over the holidays and New Year. But a huge number of Americans are facing a much colder holiday season. Unless Congress acts now, two million workers will find it difficult to even put food on the table once their...

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Elizabeth Lower-Basch

11/16/10

With great joy and excitement I am preparing my home for the Thanksgiving holiday. I am thankful for countless blessings. My son David and his family will be here. My sisters and their husbands will join us to celebrate. While I go through my shopping list, my mind races to the images of people,...

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Luz Villafana

Families & The Federal Budget

11/16/10

As if it hasn’t already done enough, the Great Recession has effectively ruined the first Friday of every month. Why? This is the day each month that the U.S. Department of Labor releases the nation’s unemployment rate. And it probably doesn’t require much explanation that for the past two years,...

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Megan Curran

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

This Halloween, we asked MomsRising members to share their stories of the scary job market and the response was, indeed, frightening. We received over a hundred stories from all across the country sharing the trauma of not being able to find work during a time in which there's only one job opening...

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Donna Norton

Childcare & Early Education

11/16/10

Week-long, world-wide event features 387 sessions and 60 keynote addresses focused on education technology and global classroom initiatives. The inaugural Global Education Conference, a week-long event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, will be held Monday, November...

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Homa Tavangar

11/15/10

I love my job. I got to start my Monday morning by taking a duplicate of Marianne's basket of clam-shaped cookies and personal messages from Massachusetts MomsRising members to U.S. Senator Scott Brown's Washington, DC office. That's because Mass moms and families want to make sure that Sen. Brown...

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Ruth Martin

Realistic & Fair Wages

11/15/10

It’s getting down to the wire, so today we made a last minute mad dash into the city to tell Senator Brown why the Paycheck Fairness Act is so important to moms in Massachusetts. Members met at Sen. Brown’s office with clam cookies in hand to give voice to the experiences of moms who are missing...

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Marianne Bullock

11/15/10

“I'm a single mother with two kids under 3, a full-time student, and an employee...so I don't have much time to write. But I have to tell whoever is willing to listen that the child care subsidy I receive has saved my life. I'm able to go back to school to get the kind of job that will help me...

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Sarah Francis

11/15/10

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Your ever-vigilant WIW has been schlepping about town talking to lots of people about what exactly we are to make of the results of last week's elections. Here's the expertise of the...

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