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#EqualPayDay: Pay Gap in the Military

April 4, 2017
It's #EqualPayDay again , and as I started the morning catching up on the news, I noticed several references on social media about the "myth" of the pay gap. I get it, we all have different points of view. I share a view based on facts, research, and actual experience. However, I am optimistic that...
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"It's better to prevent than to lament:" On children's oral health

March 30, 2017
My values and perspectives on life have been heavily influenced by my mother—a woman of no formal academic education but whose wisdom surpasses that of many. She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and as a single mother she fought hard to give her 2 daughters the opportunities that she...
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SEATTLE: Come to our strategy meeting TONIGHT!

March 28, 2017
Have a #PussyHat in your closet? Well, break it OUT! It’s time to get together, to strategize, to make our voices HEARD, to wear our hats, and… to plan how we can have an impact at the city, state, and national levels to lift women, children, families, and our communities. It’s time to say #...
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DÍLE a Trump y al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional: ¡No separen a los niños de sus madres cuando entran a los E.E.U.U.

March 22, 2017
Joana tenía solo un año y medio de edad y seguía lactando, cuando los agentes de ICE la separaron de su madre al cruzar la frontera. La madre de Joana estaba migrando en busca de seguridad. La criatura finalmente se reunió con su madre, después de tres largos y difíciles meses de separación . ¡Es...
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Tell Trump and the Department of Homeland Security: Separating Children from mothers is traumatizing and a human rights abuse!

March 17, 2017
Joana, at only one and a half years old, was still nursing when ICE agents separated her from her mother after they crossed the border seeking safety. The toddler was finally reunited with her mother after three devastatingly long months of separation. Outrageous! Trump has just proposed that the...
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MomsRising Statement on Federal Judge Blocking Trump's Muslim Ban

March 17, 2017
Last night, federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland halted Donald Trump’s second attempt at a Muslim ban--hours before Trump’s Executive Order would have taken effect. In reaction to the court's’ temporary restraining orders, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising.org...
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Talking to Elementary School Kids About Transgender Identity

February 27, 2017
Want to talk to your kids about transgender identity, but not sure how? Read on.
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Children’s Budget Coalition applauds Senator Ron Wyden for Standing Up For Kids

February 16, 2017
The U.S. Senate is slogging through the nomination process of Cabinet-level presidential appointments. Several positions remain unfilled and one position – the Director of the White House Office of Management of Budget (OMB) – is of particular importance to the Children’s Budget Coalition, which is...
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Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.

January 31, 2017
I’ve been grappling with how to challenge cynicism in a moment that requires all of us to show up differently. On Saturday, I joined more than a million women in Washington, D.C., to register my opposition to the new regime. Participating in the Women’s March — if you count satellite protests...
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Moral March Against Trump's Cabinet of Bigotry

January 6, 2017
Two weeks ago, MomsRising joined dozens of DC area faith leaders on Capitol Hill to pray together and speak out against the bigotry, systemic racism and white nationalism of Jeff Sessions, Trump's nominee for Attorney General. Now, civil right leaders and interfaith clergy are planning a Moral...
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