Health Care

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

February 25, 2021

We are at a turning point in the fight against the deadly COVID-19 virus. This week marked a heartbreaking milestone with 506,000 deaths in the United States from COVID-19. [1] So many of our families are hurting in so many different ways. But change is coming and we have a reason to feel hopeful...

MomsRising Education Fund

Elyssa Schmier

Health Care

February 19, 2021

We’ve been tracking the rates of uninsured children for more than a decade now, and after reaching an all time low in 2016 nationwide, the number started going in the wrong direction over the past three years. From 2016 to 2019 approximately 726,000 more children became uninsured. Children are...

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Health Care MomsRising

February 12, 2021

The moms of America urge leaders to immediately pass a comprehensive, robust COVID-relief package that centers the growing racial disparity in COVID-19 morbidity throughout each issue area and lifts families and our economy. Shocking data show Black, Latinx, and Native American people are dying at rates markedly higher than white Americans.

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Health Care Politics & Policy

February 12, 2021

These are indeed challenging times while our nation battles the COVID-19 pandemic. But we can’t forget another public health crisis that long preceded this pandemic – tobacco use, which is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. We must continue the fight to protect kids and...

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Portia White

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

January 31, 2021

We need your help this week. All of us have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. We’ve lost friends and loved ones, fought the illness ourselves, have struggled with the changing employment landscape, dealt with new roles at home and in so many other ways.

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Sue Anne Reed

Health Care

January 27, 2021

FINALLY! After over a year since the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in the United States, and 50 different states taking 50 different approaches to addressing the virus, we finally have a national strategy for combating this deadly virus and getting us all vaccinated. Whew! President Biden...

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Felicia Burnett

Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Health Care MomsRising MomsVote Podcast

January 21, 2021

We are back with a fresh show for a brand new year! Welcome 2021! This week on #BreakingThrough Kristin and guests cover white insurrectionism, the ties between white supremacy and gun violence, and analyze what happened at the U.S. Capitol and why we need still accountability; including for Trump...

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Amber Dorsey

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Politics & Policy

January 21, 2021

As we celebrate President Biden and Vice President Harris being sworn in and the new Congress taking shape this week, your voice is needed on several important, urgent issues - including COVID-19 relief and signing on to the Moms Mandate that we will be sharing with the Biden administration and...

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Sue Anne Reed

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care MomsVote Politics & Policy

January 21, 2021

ICYMI: The moment has indeed arrived...President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are now officially in office! The MomsRising family honored, celebrated and leaned into this moment of real change with love and likes in our shared digital spaces. Check out the images and stories that got...

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Kerri Karvetski

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Maternal Justice MomsVote Politics & Policy

December 18, 2020

Your urgent action is still needed before the country shuts down for the year-end holidays! The clock is ticking: We’ve got to keep urging Congress to help families who are suffering COVID’s economic fallout by taking immediate steps to strengthen and expand unemployment insurance, as well as...

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