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08/04/14

Estos niños son pequeños, tan pequeños como los nuestros lo son en este momento o lo fueron antes. Están solos y con miedo. Miles de niños refugiados que vienen de Centroamérica están llegando solos a la frontera de Estados Unidos y México sin alguien que los cuide o proteja, muchos de ellos vienen...

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Mary Olivella

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Health Care

08/04/14

Imagine losing your baby because no one would respond to your cries of help when you went into labor. Nicole Guerrero was pregnant, having contractions, and left in a Texas county jail cell to fend for herself. She was denied medical care, and tragically her baby died. MomsRising is calling on Texans to speak out against this horrifying story. Please add your name to the petition!

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Elyssa Schmier

Environmental Health

08/03/14

My daughter is going to college this fall and we are getting ready. Her school recommended a number of items for her dorm which we dutifully purchased. Having worked on getting toxic flame retardants out of the foam in our couches over the past several years, it occurred to me that I should have the school-recommended foam mattress toppers for my daughter tested for those same toxic chemicals.

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Joan Blades

Gun Safety

08/03/14

“You are a gun owner?” gasped my then sophomore aged son. “I am a gun owner,” I replied.

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Leigh Anne Treistman

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

08/02/14

The Ryan poverty plan will create more poverty, not less.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

08/02/14

Easy links to learn about Ryan's poverty plan - and the hard questions that must be asked about it.

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Debbie Weinstein

Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

08/02/14

Today's is the first day of 2014 World Breastfeeding Week. Just earlier this year, Iowa Public Radio broadcasted a remarkable story about Linda Eaton. Eaton was an Iowa City Firefighter. Thirty-five years ago, she continued to breastfeed her child at work against orders from her supervisor, and a breastfeeding discussion was launched locally and gained national attention.

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To-wen Tseng

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

08/02/14

This week, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report about Social Security’s finances. As usual, opponents jumped all over it, sounding the alarm bells and calling for drastic cuts. But they got it all wrong: rather than cutting Social Security we need to expand it in ways that would benefit everyone, and particularly women, who rely on the program so much.

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Allegra Baider

Family Economic Security

08/01/14

Queremos agradecer a todas las personas que participaron en el sorteo de MomsRising.org para celebrar el lanzamiento de nuestra nueva página en español MamásConPoder.org . Tuvimos una respuesta extraordinaria por parte de toda la comunidad, mucha gente participó en el sorteo de dos regalos grátis,...

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Xochitl Oseguera

Childcare & Early Education

07/31/14

After twenty-five years of teaching in early childhood education, I am used to the rush put on moms for “Back to School” shopping. I know that there is no need to rush it.

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