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Breaking Through: Hurricanes and Climate Change. Fair Taxes. Latina Equal Pay Day. Moms VOTE!

October 7, 2024
On the radio show this week, we discuss the devastation due to the hurricane in North Carolina and other states, how we can lend a hand – and also how we can start addressing in a bigger, better, bolder way, the climate change that people are experiencing across the globe; next we dive into taxes,...
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The Child Care Crisis and the Climate Crisis : A Perfect Storm for Families & Providers

October 7, 2024
View this post on Instagram A post shared by MomsRising.org (@momsrising) Recently we’ve seen the harrowing devastation of Hurricane Helene across six states with fatalities and destruction in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia and are witnessing in real-time...
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Change is Now! Inside The People's Bill for Safety and Freedom

October 4, 2024
The Youth and Family Justice Team traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the People’s Coalition for Safety and Freedom (PCSF) Week of Action. Over 90 people from 29 grassroots organizations gathered for the three-day convening to lobby legislators to repeal the 1994 Federal Crime Bill and replace...
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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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Breastfeeding Family Economic Security Maternal Justice Podcast Politics & Policy Reproductive Justice

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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S. Nadia Hussain
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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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