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Breaking Through: Harris’ Economic Agenda Rising! Fighting for Our Reproductive Freedoms Through Our Votes! Embrace Race! The Power of the Latina Vote!

September 30, 2024
On the radio show this week, we cover excitement that the VP Kamala Harris economic agenda includes policies that have long been shown to help families and businesses alike like childcare and paid family/medical leave; we dive into the attack on women and families' freedoms by the far right and how...
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RECAP: YWomen Vote USA 2024 National Town Hall

September 18, 2024
The current narrative around Gen Z is that we are uneducated, unmotivated, and uncaring about elections. This is simply untrue! Research has shown that Gen Z's voter turnout in 2022 was higher than that of Gen Xers and Millennials when they made up the age 18-24 voting block¹. It is well past time...
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What the Debate Told Us. Biden-Harris Policy Wins. Solving Childhood Poverty & Boosting Our Economy.

September 16, 2024
On the radio show this week we dive into what was said (and not said) in the first Presidential debate between Harris and Trump; then we cover some dramatic wins that the Biden - Harris Administration have been moving forward for parents - and how your voice is making a positive difference; after...
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Child Care 101 : Early Childhood Educators and the Wage Gap

August 13, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care When it comes to fixing our nation’s broken child care system, our leaders must address the worsening pay gap and low wages of Early Childhood Educators along with issues of child care...
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Child Care 101 : A History of Child Care in the U.S and the Nixon Veto

August 13, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care. Families could have had child care decades ago… Video of Families could have had child care decades ago… Today, as moms, children and families struggle to access and afford quality...
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Child Care 101: Child Care Deserts

August 12, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care What designates an area as a child care desert, what even is a child care desert? According to our friends at the Center for American Progress, a child care desert is “any census tract...
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Let's Address the Virus in the Room... Everything You Need to Know About COVID-19

July 31, 2024
[This blog post was updated the week of August 5, 2024.] As we approach the end of Disability Pride Month today, we want to give you a COVID-19 crash course on everything you need to know and more! The United States is currently seeing massive increases of COVID-19 cases , with one report...
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¡Regístrate para votar y dale un vistazo a nuestra lista de lectura de verano para los futuros votantes!

June 27, 2024
A pesar de lo importante y fundamental que es votar, a veces puede parecer un poco aburrido, especialmente cuando estamos tratando de enseñarle a los pequeños de nuestra vida sobre este importante deber cívico. ¡La buena noticia es que tenemos la oportunidad de volver a hacer que este fundamental...
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Pride Month

LGBTQ+ Families Fought and Won in Washington this Year

June 25, 2024
Happy Pride from the other Washington - or as we like to say, the better Washington. Washington State may be a small corner of the country, but the MomsRising community here is a mighty force for change. This Pride month, we’re celebrating two big wins that the Risers championed in the 2024 state...
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Child Care 101: The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)

June 25, 2024
Holy acronym! If you hear the term “CCDBG” or even if you haven’t heard of it, it refers to the Child Care & Development Block Grant. The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) provides federal funding to states for child care subsidies for low-income families with children under age 13. Families with children from birth to age 13 whose income is below 85% of the state median income are eligible on the federal level. States can set income eligibility anywhere below that ceiling, and many do.
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