Realistic & Fair Wages

May 23, 2017

This Mother's Day month, it's time to get real: We live in a country that often claims to worship mothers but, in truth, becoming a mother puts women at a tremendous lifelong economic risk. In fact, being a mom is now a greater predictor of wage and hiring discrimination than being a woman. You may...

MomsRising

Childcare & Early Education Realistic & Fair Wages

May 7, 2017

After returning over $20m of Child Care and Development Funds to the federal government in 2016, Michigan's Governor has proposed a 2018 budget plan that will ensure the entirety of the Federal child care funds available to the state are drawn. The proposed strategy included a plan to increase the...

Camarrah Morgan

Childcare & Early Education Realistic & Fair Wages

May 3, 2017

Moms know just how very valuable early learning is for kids, for families, and for our economy. More than anything, we want our children, and every child, to have every chance to succeed in school and in life. High-quality early learning programs are critically important to children’s success. In...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

May 2, 2017

Ivanka Trump is set to release her new book today — Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success . Earlier this year, we were happy to welcome Ivanka to the federal government where hundreds of thousands of union members tirelessly serve our country each and every day. As a senior adviser to her...

Liz Shuler

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

April 4, 2017

Today is Equal Pay Day 2017 – the day that marks the appalling fact that it takes 15 months for women to be paid what men are paid in a year. It takes mothers and women of color even longer. That's just shameful. And while we find the very need for Equal Pay Day incredibly frustrating, we are at...

MomsRising

Military Families Realistic & Fair Wages

April 4, 2017

It's #EqualPayDay again , and as I started the morning catching up on the news, I noticed several references on social media about the "myth" of the pay gap. I get it, we all have different points of view. I share a view based on facts, research, and actual experience. However, I am optimistic that...

Sarah Howard

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

April 3, 2017

The Coalition on Human Needs just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for articles on advocates' work to defeat the ACA repeal bill, FY17 & FY18 budget and appropriations work, a Supreme Court confirmation vote and more.

Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

March 22, 2017

My three year old has been going to full time day care for over one and half year so all topics and issues relating to early childhood education and the teachers who form an integral part of it interest me tremendously. The other day I overheard a child care provider explaining how stressed she was...

Jehanara Haider

Environmental Health Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Realistic & Fair Wages

February 9, 2017

I have lived in North Carolina since I was two years old, and now I'm raising my son here. I have personally been from Murphy to Manteo (not all in one day!) and I truly love this state. I attended the very first HKonJ (Historic Thousands on Jones Street) 11 years ago, and almost all of them since...

Ruby Sinreich

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety Immigration MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

February 3, 2017

Before we get too far into the New Year, I wanted to take a moment to thank our MomsRising supporters for powering incredible MOMentum in 2016. Looking back, it wasn’t that long ago that women’s and family economic security -- from paid family leave to equal pay – were barely part of the political...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner