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Pride Month

A group selfie of white and Black teenagers

June 1, 2023

To say this is a fraught Pride Month for LGBTQ+ folks and their allies is truly an understatement. This year’s celebration comes as big swaths of the country are debating and legislating, and getting hysterical about, the very existence of trans kids. How can we, as people who are raising, teaching, and caring for LGBTQ+ kids and teens, support them as we strive to keep them safe?

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Alexis Bleich, LCSW, MA

Honor Moms Every Day 2023 picnic group photo

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May 19, 2023

We want to thank all our wonderful members -- and over members of Congress -- for joining our inspiring day to honor our moms and stand for policies that lift families!

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Hanna Addis

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June 1, 2023

This May you sparked significant, powerful, and beautiful Mother’s Day MOMentum.

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Kerri Karvetski

Families & The Federal Budget Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

May 25, 2023

SIGN NOW to protect WIC! WIC is getting attacked from all angles. The House Republican budget not only holds our families hostage by calling for across-the-board cuts to programs like WIC in order to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default in the next two weeks, they also want to gut fruit and...

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Sue Anne Reed

Family Economic Security Food!

May 11, 2023

Have you recently left the grocery store wondering how anyone can afford food? Me too. The truth is not many people can. The rising cost of food is making it difficult for moms, grandparents, and families to put food on the table. And worse still, many families who rely on the Supplemental...

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Joy Ikekhua

Families & The Federal Budget

May 11, 2023

Breaking news! We are an estimated 22 days away from the GOP-created debt ceiling crisis becoming a world-wide problem. [1] If Congress doesn’t take immediate action to raise the debt ceiling, like Trump did three times on his watch [2], we will– for the first time in history – default, leading to...

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Elyssa Schmier

Childcare & Early Education

May 10, 2023

It’s go time in the New Hampshire legislature! Thanks to all your advocacy, we’ve seen some huge wins so far this year – and we need your help again! Let’s keep that MOMentum going as the Senate Finance committee works on the state budget. → Send a quick email to the Senate Finance committee asking...

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MacKenzie Nicholson

Family Economic Security Food!

April 27, 2023

MomsRising members are on-the-ground right now at the NC General Assembly urging our state lawmakers to include funding for school meals for all in the budget this legislative session. Will you back us up? → Can you back us up by sending your lawmaker a note right now? Our message urging lawmakers...

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Jessica Burroughs

Maternal Justice

May 1, 2023

It is often the stories that we don’t share that are amongst the most important ones. I know that after I gave birth to my son 21 years ago no one knew that I was hardly eating and regularly crying both in private and in public. It was only years later that I felt comfortable sharing that with...

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