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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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Register to vote + check out our future voter summer reading list for kids!

June 27, 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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¡Regístrate para votar y dale un vistazo a nuestra lista de lectura de verano para los futuros votantes!

June 27, 2024
A pesar de lo importante y fundamental que es votar, a veces puede parecer un poco aburrido, especialmente cuando estamos tratando de enseñarle a los pequeños de nuestra vida sobre este importante deber cívico. ¡La buena noticia es que tenemos la oportunidad de volver a hacer que este fundamental...
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Child Care 101: The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)

June 25, 2024
Holy acronym! If you hear the term “CCDBG” or even if you haven’t heard of it, it refers to the Child Care & Development Block Grant. The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) provides federal funding to states for child care subsidies for low-income families with children under age 13. Families with children from birth to age 13 whose income is below 85% of the state median income are eligible on the federal level. States can set income eligibility anywhere below that ceiling, and many do.
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‘Honored and Grateful’ to Receive Generous Multi-Year Grant from Pivotal, MomsRising Education Fund Leader Says

May 28, 2024
Leading Moms Group Will Use Funding Support from Melinda French Gates to Mobilize Moms to Advance Paid Leave, Affordable Child Care, Reproductive Justice The MomsRising Education Fund announced today that it is receiving generous multi-year funding from Pivotal as a part of Melinda French Gates’...
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taxday 2024

¡Dile al Congreso “hagan que las ricas corporaciones paguen impuestos” este Día de los Impuestos!

April 15, 2024
Hoy es el Día de los Impuestos (¿Te acordaste de enviar tu declaración de impuestos? Tienes hasta la medianoche de hoy.) y queremos enviar un mensaje alto, fuerte y poderoso al Congreso de EE.UU. para decirles que deben entrar en acción hoy para asegurar que las personas y las corporaciones ricas...
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Top Actions of the Past Week: Sunday, April 14, 2024

April 14, 2024
Spring into Action with Fresh MomsRising Merch Are you honoring someone special this Mother’s Day? Our Spring 2024 Collection mantra, Raising our children, raising our voices, embodies the essence of motherhood and activism. Our merchandise celebrates this dual role, empowering YOU to make a...
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Victories! The State of the Union (SOTU), the Oscars, and YOUR Story!

March 18, 2024
On the radio show this week we cover what really happened in the State of the Union (Hint: Victories!); how to get help through the ACF; the ability of culture change to push legislative change – and what you can do too; and we also hear from an award-winning author about the power of YOUR story. *...
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Top Actions of the Past Week: Friday, March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024
Tell Congress to Pass the People’s Response Act! The People’s Response Act emphasizes an inclusive, holistic, and health-centered approach to public safety by creating a public safety division within the Department of Human Health and Services — because communities and experts agree that public...
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