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The Child Care Crisis and the Climate Crisis : A Perfect Storm for Families & Providers

October 7, 2024
View this post on Instagram A post shared by MomsRising.org (@momsrising) Recently we’ve seen the harrowing devastation of Hurricane Helene across six states with fatalities and destruction in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia and are witnessing in real-time...
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Voting and our kids Fall reading list for kids, a cozy match!

October 4, 2024
En Español As important and fundamental as voting is, it can feel kind of, well, dry, especially when we try to teach the young ones in our lives about this important civic duty. The good news is we have a chance to put the FUN back in this FUNdamental act of democracy by educating the future...
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Presenting: MomsRising's Child Care Voter Guide & Action Toolkit!

October 3, 2024
En Español Child Care Voter Guide Link Child Care Action Toolkit Link It’s no secret that child care continues to be unaffordable and inaccessible for most families while child care providers are paid poverty level wages. This is why we need concerned voters to turn out and turn up for child care...
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A Child Care State of Mind: New York Parents and Providers Share Their Child Care Experiences

September 26, 2024
We are delighted to share our latest collection of child care stories from around New York State in our parent and provider storybook, “ New York: A Child Care State of Mind, ” a joint collaboration between MomsRising, the Empire State Campaign for Child Care and ROC-NY. Stories are a powerful way...
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We Need to Talk to Our Sons About Care Responsibilities

September 11, 2024
Time flies–my 11-year-old started his first year in middle school last month. Between schoolwork, swim team practice, Math Olympiad, and violin lessons, he’s so busy that he can hardly breathe. But these are all his own choices–I tried to help him cut down on some activities, but he wouldn’t hear...
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Child Care 101 : Early Childhood Educators and the Wage Gap

August 13, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care When it comes to fixing our nation’s broken child care system, our leaders must address the worsening pay gap and low wages of Early Childhood Educators along with issues of child care...
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Child Care 101 : A History of Child Care in the U.S and the Nixon Veto

August 13, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care. Families could have had child care decades ago… Video of Families could have had child care decades ago… Today, as moms, children and families struggle to access and afford quality...
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Child Care 101: Child Care Deserts

August 12, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care What designates an area as a child care desert, what even is a child care desert? According to our friends at the Center for American Progress, a child care desert is “any census tract...
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Nueva York necesita un cuidado infantil que funcione para las familias y los proveedores

July 19, 2024
Cuando mi primogénito tenía dos años descubrí una pequeña guardería encantadora que quedaba a unos diez minutos a pie de mi casa. Era perfecta: el horario funcionaba para nosotros, tenía educadores que hablaban español y le daban comida casera a mi hijo. ¡Incluso tenía un espacio al aire libre...
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New York Needs Child Care to Work For Families and Providers

July 18, 2024
When my firstborn was two years old, I discovered a lovely little child care center that was about a 10 minute walk from my home. It was perfect: it had the hours that worked for us, it had Spanish-speaking educators, and fed my child home-cooked meals. It also had an outdoor space in the back! (If...
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