Health Care

December 11, 2017

Recently, MomsRising hosted a #WellnessWed TweetChat with the National Partnership for Women and Families and Young Invincibles . The topic of the chat was women’s health and open enrollment. If you were not able to join the chat, you’re in luck! We have provided a recap of the questions and...

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Isabella Higgins

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

December 11, 2017

The Coalition on Human Needs just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report, a regular newsletter on national policy affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. Read on for articles on Congress’s tax cut bill, avoiding a shutdown, disaster aid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Dreamers, and more.

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Lecia Imbery

Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Health Care Immigration

December 11, 2017

We're making a holiday action list and checking it twice! Gonna tell our decision makers who's naughty or nice. Moms are coming to town ... Please join us to take urgent action on a suite of red-hot priorities this week! And be sure to share with friends and family too. Together we're making this...

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Karen Showalter

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

December 8, 2017

…They have become great and rich; they have grown fat and sleek…. they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless… and they do not defend the rights of the needy. --Jeremiah 5:27-28 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising

December 4, 2017

A conversation where we discuss ACA/Medicaid and Maternal Health with a focus on the impact on black women.

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Tasmiha Khan

Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising

December 4, 2017

A conversation on how supporting Medicaid bolsters the health of black and brown communities.

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Tasmiha Khan

Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising

December 4, 2017

This tweetchat is about access to health, which is one of the core tenets of our #MaternalJustice campaign. Access to health means access to safe communities and environments. Black women in poor communities don’t have safe spaces to work out and focus on their health. Safe spaces don’t only...

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Tasmiha Khan

Health Care Politics & Policy

December 1, 2017

The United States Congress and Trump Administration are engaged in a morally abominable massacre of the hopes, dreams and basic survival and development needs of millions of babies, children and youths in America – 13.2 million of whom are poor. Many are hungry, homeless, unequally educated, and...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care

November 30, 2017

The Senate is set to vote this week on the most sweeping tax bill in a generation. This is no dry bill making small adjustments to the tax code. Instead, it is a bill that will affect nearly every aspect of life for average Americans from education to home ownership; from health care to child care...

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Jamie Davis Smith

Health Care

November 30, 2017

I'd never been sick before. A light cold here and there, but never seriously ill. I'm young. I eat right. And always take the stairs when presented with the option. This summer as I was planning a vacation with a friend, I came down with what I believed to be a cold. Summer colds are the worst,...

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