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12/21/18

Happy Friday! This time of year we pause to spend time with friends and family, and all of those who make our days and year merry and bright. We wish you all of the happiness of the season. Before you get too wrapped up in that snuggly blanket, or bundled up to head out in the snow, please take a...

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Karen Showalter

We Are MomsRising!

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising Near You

12/21/18

In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Jamie in Washington about how being able to access a childcare subsidy helped her and her two daughters. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post . For me, my childcare story, started...

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Abbie Gately

Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

12/21/18

Have you heard the good news? Because of your actions, we achieved a big WIN for maternal health! This week Congress passed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act, and right before the holidays, it was signed into law by the President. This is an incredible, powerful and groundbreaking win for pregnant...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Maternal Justice MomsRising Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

12/21/18

*** Did you see this campaign? MomsRising is fighting for Cyntoia Brown, and your signature is still urgently needed. Please take a few moments to sign our petition asking Governor Haslam to grant Cyntoia Brown clemency NOW! Read on for all the details, and thank you for all you do. *** Yesterday...

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Beatriz Beckford

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

12/21/18

All during the Christmas season, as millions celebrate a poor, homeless child Christians call Savior, I think about the irony of some political leaders proposing (and citizens permitting) policies that would result in millions more children becoming destitute, homeless, and hungry and being...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Give Today!

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Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Gun Safety

12/20/18

“My name is Denise. I’m a Mom.” Eight years ago, much to my surprise, I said those words at a town hall meeting and got a standing ovation.

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Denise Zavaleta

Families & The Federal Budget Food! Immigration

12/19/18

President Trump has threatened to veto the year-end spending bill if it does not include $5 billion for his border wall. Today, his press secretary has tried to step back from the brink by saying Trump could sign a bill that allows him to find $5 billion for the wall through various accounts...

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Debbie Weinstein

MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

12/18/18

On October 2, the Graham County School Board quietly joined all the other 114 local school districts in North Carolina by voting to prohibit the use of corporal punishment in the public schools. Thus, for the first time in the history of our state (as well as the colony before it), no students...

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Tom Vitaglione

Maternal Justice MomsRising Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

12/18/18

On June 6th 2015, the news of Kalief Browder’s untimely death was mourned across the country. Kalief at sixteen had been arrested for theft of a backpack, a crime he contended he did not commit. Subsequently, he was detained without being charged with a crime at Rikers Island simply because his...

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Beatriz Beckford

MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

12/18/18

I was sweating at the base of my spine thinking about the possibility that my two-year-old would wake up from her nap and I would have to tolerate all of the passengers staring and judging. This was my first trip alone on a flight with my daughter and my mind was whirling with multiple worst-case...

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