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Top #5Actions for This Week: December 11, 2020

December 13, 2020
As we move towards the end of 2020, we are still waiting on Congress to pass comprehensive COVID-19 legislation. If you haven’t already signed the petition, please find the link below. We also have four other ways for you to get involved with MomsRising. -- Sue Anne, Kristin, Elyssa, Nina, Anita,...
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Sue Anne Reed
Families & The Federal Budget

Read Impactful Stories about Our Members' COVID-19 Experiences & Tell Congress #ReliefCantWait!

December 7, 2020
We’re approaching a crisis on top of another crisis during this COVID-19 pandemic. Unless Congress acts quickly, many of the pandemic relief policies that have been lifelines for our families (such as expanded unemployment benefits, emergency paid family leave and earned sick days, and eviction...
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Hanna Addis
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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: Friday, December 4, 2020

December 4, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be an urgent crisis, yet many of the protections passed earlier this year are set to expire at the end of the month. We are calling on the U.S. Senate to immediately pass a relief package now that will benefit everyone in our nation. We also must urge Congress to...
MomsRising Education Fund
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Sue Anne Reed
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Review the Week: Superheroes in Action [Dec. 4, 2020]

December 4, 2020
ICYMI: This week the MomsRising community continued to lift democracy and open avenues for everyone to thrive…all during a historically devastating pandemic. You are true superheroes, and we are so thankful to be doing this work with you. 1. GIVE: A Sister MomsRising Donor Will Match Your...
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Kerri Karvetski
Families & The Federal Budget

Tell Your Senators: #ReliefCantWait

December 3, 2020
We’ll get straight to the point: We’re about to go off a COVID cliff. And we need your help. In just three weeks, unless Congress acts, many of the pandemic relief policies that have been lifelines for our families (like expanded unemployment benefits, emergency paid family leave and earned sick...
MomsRising Education Fund
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Hanna Addis
Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

Top #5Actions for This Holiday Week: November 27, 2020

November 25, 2020
The holidays are upon us, and many of us are getting creative and practicing flexibility to connect from a distance with family in new ways because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the pandemic hasn’t just challenged the way we celebrate; it’s also turned up the pressure on families whose health and...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
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Families & The Federal Budget MomsVote Politics & Policy

America’s Moms Have Spoken

November 7, 2020
“Moms were a powerful force in this election. Moms across the country mobilized their families, their friends, and their communities to vote, overcoming many obstacles to voting during a pandemic and resulting in historic voter turnout this year. The huge voter turnout makes our country stronger...
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Families & The Federal Budget MomsVote Realistic & Fair Wages

Review the Week: Final Friday Before ELECTION DAY [Oct. 30, 2020]

October 30, 2020
ICYMI: Voting. Voting. Voting. The MomsRising community remains focused on making this the biggest MomsVote ever, PLUS fighting for equal pay for Latinas! Check out these posts you loved, shared or might have missed for the week ending Oct. 30, 2020. 1. YOUTUBE: You Can Count on Us Moms will do...
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Kerri Karvetski
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Moms Are Parenting the Workforce!?

October 29, 2020
In her latest blog post, Capacity Building Manager Marianne Bullock reflects on a new, precarious reality. "It's not that women are falling off the cliff," she shares, "but that we are being pushed off and out of the workforce by a lack of policies that support the on-the-ground reality of the burden of care for our children's wellbeing."
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Social & Emotional Development

Less Support for Low-Income Kids in the After-School Hours Is Cause for Concern

October 23, 2020
The toll the pandemic is taking on America’s moms is well documented and truly concerning, not just for moms but also for families and our country. At this time when millions more families are struggling to make ends meet, Moms are leaving the workforce because of the unmanageable burdens thrust on...
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Jodi Grant

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