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Childcare & Early Education Immigration MomsRising Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

02/12/19

My heart sinks every time I watch the news or read my Twitter feed. How did we get here? Our country has become so polarized when it pertains to our immigration system that we have lost the ability to feel empathy for those who seek assistance. As a mental health professional, I am alarmed that our...

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Lina Acosta Sandaal

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MomsRising Paid Family Leave

02/12/19

In 2012, I helped organized the Asian Pacific Islander (API) community to build support for our LGBT members and marriage equality in Washington State. The messaging for that campaign was tailored for the (API) community, where love for family was emphasized over individual romantic love. This is...

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Seayoung Yim

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Immigration

02/09/19

Greetings and Happy Saturday! Please scroll down for our weekly list of top and most urgent actions, including petitions on providing back pay for government contractors affected by the shutdown, urging Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase to cut ties with private prisons fueling the immigration crisis...

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Karen Showalter

Politics & Policy

02/08/19

Even though the government shutdown over President Trump’s wasteful wall has ended (for now!), there are thousands of low-wage government contractors who are still feeling the financial pain. Contractors like Toni, a mom from New York, who says: “I am a Federal government contractor. I was out of...

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Elyssa Schmier

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy

02/08/19

“If the justice system does not change incarceration will continue to be as arbitrary as a game of eeny, meeny, miny, mo, with black kids and black men hoping to avoid being ‘IT.’” Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo is the title of this series of paintings by Nashville native Omari Booker, a visual artist who...

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Marian Wright Edelman

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Family Economic Security MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages

02/07/19

We've all been there. You put together your resume and cover letter to apply for a job. You're not sure how much it pays -- because they didn't share that information -- but you go ahead. You get an interview and things go well. When you ask about the pay range for the position the response you get...

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Maggie Humphreys

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Immigration Politics & Policy

02/06/19

With Congress refusing to enact some of his harshest proposals against people with low incomes, President Trump has relentlessly pursued alternative methods to harm families struggling to make ends meet. For more than two years, the Trump Administration has tried to use regulations and waivers as a...

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Madison Hardee

Immigration

02/05/19

En una impactante revelación, el Inspector General del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS, por sus siglas en inglés) dijo que “miles” de niños migrantes más de lo que se sabía anteriormente fueron separados por la administración Trump y que no saben cuántos niños fueron separados de sus...

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Khadija Gurnah

Health Care Maternal Justice Social & Emotional Development

02/05/19

Pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity rates are on the rise in this country. Each year, 700 to 900 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes in the U.S., and approximately 65,000 experience serious complications. For Black women, the statistics are even worse. Regardless of...

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Alexis Anderson

Immigration Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy Podcast

02/05/19

On the #RisersRadioShow this week we cover the shutdown, the re-opening, and the power of older women; we also cover the introduction of the Paycheck Fairness Act and FAMILY Act in Congress (Yay!); and we close the show covering how to help prevent Muslim youth from being bullied in our communities...

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