Politics & Policy

October 2, 2012

Why we need our Presidential candidates to talk about climate change Personal appeals and more than 160,000 signatures for climate change to be included in Oct. 3 Presidential debate, delivered to The NewsHour offices. This summer, the United States experienced record-high temperatures and...

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Gloria Pan

Child's crayon drawing of a rainbow and two children

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 7, 2011

“I can't even count the number of times [when trying to rent an apartment] that I was hung up on as soon as I mentioned we had a toddler." Christina, New York “My husband and I were denied a home loan last year due to my being on maternity leave. It was a tremendously frustrating experience, as I...

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Mary Olivella

MomsRising Politics & Policy

May 23, 2011

We just heard about this appalling article in Psychology Today from our friends at ColorOfChange.org. Gabriel (on their staff) gave us the go-ahead to share their email about this. Here’s what the ColorOfChange team writes: ************** Nearly 20 years after a black parent documented how hard it...

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Mary Olivella

Politics & Policy

March 12, 2011

Cross posted from IWPR A year ago today, the District of Columbia legalized same-sex marriage, and according to the Washington Post , the number of marriages soared from 3,100 in the year prior to 6,600 in the year since. According to a court representative, the number of marriages usually varies...

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Robert Drago

MomsRising Politics & Policy

May 8, 2010

MomsRising's Mother of the Decade video has now been sent to over a million folks and has received many hundreds of thousands of views. Our blog carnival currently features blog post after blog post with the video: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/2010-mother-of-the-decade-blog-carnival/ Mother's Day...

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