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March 17, 2020

My name is Yasmin Canales and I am member of Little Lobbyists, an organization who advocates for kids with complex medical needs and disabilities. I am a high school senior, just accepted into my top 2 choices for college. I love swimming, work as a lifeguard, and am a youth group leader with a passion for sharing my faith. I was also born with a genetic disease called Cystic Fibrosis, which affects all my organs, but especially my respiratory and digestive systems. Since birth, I have had over 30 hospitalizations for weeks at a time as well as 15 surgeries. I take 21 different medications, including over 35 pills daily, and 2-4 hours of intense respiratory therapies.

Yasmin Canales

Health Care Maternal Justice

March 14, 2020

An overview of Maternal Justice related federal and state policy updates for February and March 2020

S. Nadia Hussain

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

March 14, 2020

Listen, I’m going to get real with you. I know that you might be more than a little anxious right now and unsure of what is going on with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spreading. I am too. The good news is that late last night Speaker Nancy Pelsoi and leaders in the U.S. House of...

Elyssa Schmier

Health Care

March 13, 2020

As a family, we’re no stranger to being homebound. Over last decade, we’ve had several reasons to isolate including a bone marrow transplant and an illness that left one of us bedridden. As of this publication, we’ve partially isolated for over 2 weeks and completely isolated for some days. The...

Rebekah Miel

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Health Care MomsRising

March 12, 2020

I know we are all afraid. In fact, the fear of infection is constantly with me these days. I try to let go of the anxiety, while at the same time remembering to wash my hands often, use hand sanitizer very often, wear a mask and gloves outside, and have anyone who comes over put on a mask and...

Catherine Peebles

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Paid Sick Days

March 11, 2020

Moms are scared. Families are hurting. And tonight we were angered as we watched President Trump utterly fail to adequately address the coronavirus pandemic. We may never have needed our government to step up with meaningful solutions more than we do now. But President Trump didn’t do that tonight...

MomsRising

Health Care

March 8, 2020

Todos los años me aseguro de que mi hijo reciba la vacuna contra la gripe (influenza/flu) tan pronto como está disponible. La gripe puede ser devastadora para mí porque mi sistema inmunológico es muy débil debido a una enfermedad renal crónica y me siento muy agradecida por los científicos de todo...

Felicia Burnett

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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

March 4, 2020

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) already starting to spread in the United States, it is time for our federal government to take action and release funds ASAP to combat the virus and protect our families and economy. Sign our letter calling on the U.S. Congress and President Trump to pass and allocate emergency funds to combat the coronavirus ASAP.

Elyssa Schmier

Health Care MomsRising Paid Sick Days

March 3, 2020

"As a longtime resident of Kirkland, Washington, which sadly is the epicenter of fast-spreading coronavirus in the United States, I am seeing firsthand how a long, slow national emergency is becoming a dangerous, deadly crisis. Because the U.S. Senate and the Trump administration have been...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

February 28, 2020

As we wrap up February this weekend with Leap Day and head into spring, we can't help but notice all of the conversations regarding the coronavirus. More importantly, we are all concerned with the costs that will place burden on American families of both getting tested and in whatever vaccines Big...