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January 5, 2016

President Obama just took Executive Action to shrink the loophole in background checks for gun sales today! And you helped this happen! You (yes, YOU!) signed letters to Congress, clicked on petitions, shared your experiences, visited elected leaders, shared links on social media, made calls and...

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Gloria Pan

Health Care

December 28, 2015

Who would take healthcare away from low-income kids? You’d be surprised. When I was an unemployed single mom, attempting to start a business, CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) covered medical care for my young daughter, who was diagnosed with frightening febrile seizures at 19 months. CHIP...

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Sili Recio

Gun Safety Politics & Policy

December 8, 2015

I'm remembering how Sandra Bland, an African American woman in her late twenties, was pulled over by Trooper Brian Encinia, a white police officer, for not signaling a lane change. Some facts are clear: Sandra was less than a mile from the Prairie View A&M University, her alma mater where she...

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Christine Stone

Health Care

November 30, 2015

“Alaska has seen great success in solving a native problem with a native solution. We want to export that success to our community, [with] a Swinomish provider serving the Swinomish community in a dental clinic built by the Tribe on our land.”

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Jon Gould

Childcare & Early Education Realistic & Fair Wages

November 25, 2015

Thanksgiving is around the corner. Today my two-and-half-year-old came home from his day care with a thankful turkey. Thankful turkey, you know, the classic construction paper turkey lists what children are thankful for. We had this conversation. “Mama, look at my turkey!” “Wow! And what’s this?” “...

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To-wen Tseng

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Immigration

November 12, 2015

I have bad news. Amidst growing anti-immigrant rhetoric that's harming our children and our economy, earlier this week a divided 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a cruel blow. What happened? Well, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decided, in a ruling against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),...

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Elisa Batista

Families & The Federal Budget Military Families

November 10, 2015

Working moms are never off the clock. Our working days are bookended by packing kids’ lunches in the morning and reading bedtime stories at night. We put in a lot more than a full day’s work and every dollar we work for is hard earned. This is even more true for military families like mine. We know...

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Rosalynda Segovia Thorn

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Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

November 9, 2015

Put something soft on your desk right now, because what I’m about to tell you will have you so mad you’re going to have a "head-desk" moment (you know, a moment when you drop your head to your desk in frustration?) and I don’t want you to get hurt. Ready? According to the latest U.S. Census,...

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Xochitl Oseguera

Health Care

October 24, 2015

We as pediatricians and parents have an opportunity to find out what’s happening with our children and to intervene to get children the help they need to heal. But we have to ask the right questions. Here’s a lesson that’s been learned time and time again: If we want to save lives and prevent...

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Nadine Burke Harris, M.D.

Family Economic Security

October 22, 2015

A home should be a refuge and a place of comfort. But for many women their landlords are a source of fear, demanding sexual favors along with rent money. This kind of sexual harassment isn’t often in the news cycle but it happens routinely, just below the radar, and it’s one of the subjects of a...

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