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Food! Health Care MomsRising Politics & Policy

April 21, 2023

Everyone should have access to food and health care. Period. But Republican leadership in Congress is demanding deep cuts to programs that would leave millions hungry and uninsured, and threatening to default on our national debt unless they get what they want: Cuts to programs that families and...

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Felicia Burnett

Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care

April 7, 2023

Send a Letter to the Editor to protect SNAP! Our families are struggling enough as it is to afford the rising costs of food. But now extremist Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are planning to make it even harder for many families to feed their children by making massive cuts and...

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Sue Anne Reed

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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice MomsRising Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Reproductive Justice

March 30, 2023

So that horrible, very bad, awful, terrible bill that provides a legislative framework for advancing book bans, censorship, and hate that we shared with you last week? IT PASSED THE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED U.S. HOUSE!!! UUGGGHHHH! But hope isn’t lost. Now the bill is moving onto the U.S. Senate,...

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Health Care Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

March 27, 2023

Here at MomsRising, we're often delivering packets of constituent signatures and stories to our elected officials. It's a great way for parents to voice their opinions and concerns. However last week in Pennsylvania, we had a much different kind of petition to deliver, one delivering caring and...

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Stephanie Lane

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages Reproductive Justice

March 23, 2023

We've updated our vision for 2024! See the newest version here. Moms For Freedom Agenda: A Vision to Lift Our Nation We value our freedoms. The freedom to be there for our children and families when we’re needed most, to choose what’s best for our families, to send our kids to schools where every...

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Health Care

March 22, 2023

“My son has cystic fibrosis and type 1 diabetes. Medicaid has literally saved his life. As a single low income parent I can barely afford to provide housing and food… My child deserves to have the life-saving medications he needs and he also deserves to have a home and food. Without Medicaid, I don't think he can have all those things.”

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Felicia Burnett

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Health Care

March 17, 2023

This article originally appeared on the Center for Child and Families website and is shared here with the express consent of the organization. Written by: Edwin Park Under the highly effective Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP), drug manufacturers must provide substantial rebates to the federal...

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Tasmiha Khan

Health Care

March 15, 2023

Earlier this winter, I had a frightening experience: my baby had both the flu and an ear infection. Normally, I would get the antibiotics he needed to remedy the situation. Instead, the medications his pediatrician prescribed were out of stock at our local pharmacy. I called multiple pharmacies...

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Tasmiha Khan

Health Care

March 14, 2023

Last week, thanks to the pressure that the Biden/Harris administration and congressional Democrats have been applying, the largest manufacturer of insulin in the United States, Eli Lilly, made a terrific announcement: They are capping patient costs for their insulin at $35 per month! [1] This...

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Tasmiha Khan

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration

March 10, 2023

Limited time to speak up and protect asylum! Help us stop the asylum ban! The Biden Administration is taking public comments until March 27th on its plan to resurrect a Trump-era asylum ban. We have a very limited window to submit those comments, that’s why we need you to sign our petition NOW!...

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Sue Anne Reed