Health Care

August 12, 2015

When my son Aaron was just 28 months old, he started to stutter. Not the easy disfluency that most children will have for short periods. This was forced speech that came with a stomach-flex and neck strain. When most kids are bouncing along with bumpy speech, they don’t know they’re doing it, they...

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Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Health Care

August 11, 2015

Let’s see: Shop for school supplies…check. Make sure immunizations are up-to-date…check. Sign up for sports and music lessons…check. Talk about sexual abuse prevention…wait. What? I feel like such a grownup when I say it, but the summer has really flown by. We’re starting to make sure all the books...

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Allison Wedell Schumacher

Health Care

August 6, 2015

And we are off to a great start to National Breastfeeding Month! Anayah kicked things off on the blog by chatting with us about breastfeeding and paid leave . On Wednesday, we had a very informative chat about breastfeeding and work. Here's the Storify with all of the great tweets that were shared...

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Sili Recio

Health Care

August 3, 2015

Las Enfermedades del Corazón son la primera causa de muerte en la mujer en Estados Unidos, unas 6 veces mayor que el cáncer de seno y mayor que todos los tipos de cáncer combinados. Esto es particularmente importante en las mujeres latinas, ya que sólo una de cada tres está consciente que las...

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Nidia Sangines

Family Economic Security Health Care Paid Family Leave

August 1, 2015

And we’re off with National Breastfeeding Month 2015! Where conversations about breastfeeding normally start with infant feeding choices, this year’s events begin with attention to a critical factor affecting that choice: paid family leave. Convention suggests that by providing parents with...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Health Care

July 30, 2015

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Medicaid , the program that provides health coverage for low-income kids and families, as well as seniors and people with disabilities. Medicaid is funded jointly by the federal government and the states and provides cost-efficient and effective coverage for its...

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Judith Solomon

Health Care Politics & Policy

July 28, 2015

Why does my inbox have messages saying that Maine’s new law against shackling pregnant women is an “accidental win”? True, the governor of Maine let this and a number of other progressive bills become law without his signature, and then claimed to have vetoed them . But if activists hadn’t run such...

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Rachel Roth

RSVP

Family Economic Security Health Care

July 17, 2015

You’re invited to our celebration in Hattiesburg! RSVP by clicking this link to join MomsRising volunteers and friends on July 25th, 10:30 am at the Hattiesburg Zoo to thank Mayor DuPree and City Council members for for their leadership on children’s health in Mississippi! The event is free (a...

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Jeannina Perez

Health Care

July 16, 2015

“But you said you would!” I hear it from my son all. the. time. He holds me to each and every little commitment—whether or not I even recall making it :) It’s important to keep your word. It’s especially important when you’re the leader of a state with 500,000 uninsured adults. Today, MomsRising is...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care

July 14, 2015

500,000. That’s how many hard-working uninsured North Carolinians are waiting for Governor McCrory to use money already available to make affordable health coverage available through expanding Medicaid. They shouldn’t have to wait any longer. On Thursday, July 16th, MomsRising and our statewide...

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Felicia Burnett