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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

March 15, 2022

"If families really mattered to Republican leaders, then they wouldn't be focused on banning important books, restricting access to reproductive healthcare and attacking LGBTQ+ kids." - Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner In this powerful CNN Opinion , MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner...

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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Immigration

March 10, 2022

Hello! My name is Martha Mouret-Sanders. I live in Dallas, Texas with my husband, our five-year-old son and our two-year-old daughter. I am a sixth grade teacher and a proud member of MomsRising. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today about what my family and my community have faced during the pandemic, and what we need to recover.

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Claudia Tristán

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

March 4, 2022

We are human animals with instincts and skills inherent to us as mammals including signals, sensations and sensors about well-being and needs. This is our Natural Leadership . As children, our Natural Leadership is fully ignited. Before it was socialized and domesticated out of us, we were much...

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Beth Anstandig

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Immigration Maternal Justice

February 28, 2022

Te invitanmos a disfrutar de palomitas y LOTERÍA con el Presidente... ¡todo desde la comodidad de tu sala! Este martes por la noche (1 de marzo) a las 9 p. m. ET / 6 p. m. PT, el presidente Joe Biden dará el Estado de la Unión 2022 (SOTU). Para que la observación sea divertida y poderosa, hemos...

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Linda Stone

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

February 25, 2022

Popcorn and BINGO with the President... all from the comfort of your living room! Want in? This Tuesday night (March 1st) at 9pm ET / 6pm PT President Joe Biden will be giving the 2022 State of the Union (SOTU). In order to make watching fun and powerful, we've created a BINGO card to help you...

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Hanna Addis

Childcare & Early Education

February 24, 2022

I waited. Some waits would potentially be a few weeks, while others were indefinite. One child care center stopped adding children to their waitlist through the end of 2021.

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Selina Maldonado

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care MomsRising Paid Family Leave

February 23, 2022

On Valentine's Day, we took to the street in the hope that Cupid's arrow would spark some care infrastructure love into the hearts of our U.S. Senators. We got together with the National Women's Law Center and with the help of Chalk R!ot, a Cocoa CareAVan, and candy hearts we spelled it out clearly and colorfully: Care. Can't. Wait.

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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages Social & Emotional Development

February 22, 2022

An overview of Reproductive Justice related federal and state policy updates. The Set Up… What seemed to move quickly towards the middle-end of last year, began as a slow burn.

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Diarra Diouf

Childcare & Early Education

February 12, 2022

Para el Día de San Valentín, sería genial disfrutar de chocolates, flores y dulces. Pero es difícil sentir el amor cuando mi familia y tantas otras familias como la mía luchan por pagar y acceder a un cuidado infantil de calidad. Sé que hemos estado hablando mucho sobre el cuidado de niños...

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Linda Stone

Childcare & Early Education

February 9, 2022

This Valentine’s Day, let’s count the ways we can have our voice heard to finally solve child care! What families need this year is for Cupid to book a plane ticket to Washington, DC and use some of their magic to get our elected leaders to show us some love and invest in the solutions for the...

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