Families & The Federal Budget

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

The loss of my husband's job could not have come at a worst time for us. I work part-time at a supermarket, and the way the economy is my hours were further cut. The unemployment checks we received helped a great deal, and we were able to survive. But our nightmare began after the year was up, and...

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Elisanta Batista

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

This time of year, many are planning their Thanksgiving menu and visits with family over the holidays and New Year. But a huge number of Americans are facing a much colder holiday season. Unless Congress acts now, two million workers will find it difficult to even put food on the table once their...

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Elizabeth Lower-Basch

Families & The Federal Budget

November 16, 2010

As if it hasn’t already done enough, the Great Recession has effectively ruined the first Friday of every month. Why? This is the day each month that the U.S. Department of Labor releases the nation’s unemployment rate. And it probably doesn’t require much explanation that for the past two years,...

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Megan Curran

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Blog Carnivals

November 16, 2010

This Halloween, we asked MomsRising members to share their stories of the scary job market and the response was, indeed, frightening. We received over a hundred stories from all across the country sharing the trauma of not being able to find work during a time in which there's only one job opening...

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Donna Norton

Families & The Federal Budget

October 28, 2010

That bone chilling, pit of fear in your stomach feeling. Could it be Halloween? Or possibly, could it be the very scary job market? Currently more than one in six working age adults - or 26.8 million people - are either unemployed or underemployed. And it's tough to find a job when there’s only one...

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Donna Norton

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

April 9, 2010

Whenever I go on vacation, I always leave some task undone--like emptying the garbage can, or putting my mail on hold. But failing to extend millions of people's unemployment insurance benefits? Never, even in my most hurried state, would I go on vacation and neglect to do that. It's simply...

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Donna Norton

Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising

May 13, 2009

Shocking but true: There is a tragic lack of support for American families and a deep bias against mothers. A full quarter of U.S. families with children less than six years old live in poverty. Nine million children are without healthcare coverage and many more are under-insured. Fourteen million...

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Families & The Federal Budget

April 16, 2009

Click here to read the whole post from Your (Wo)man in Washington. Written by MOTHERS Guest Blogger, Kelly Coyle DiNorcia

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Valerie Young

Families & The Federal Budget Paid Sick Days

September 9, 2008

We're making great progress in the fight for paid sick days in Connecticut. Join our efforts today to ensure paid sick days for all becomes a reality in Connecticut. Why bring paid sick days to Connecticut? • Roughly 44% of working people in Connecticut don't get a single paid sick day all year...

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Katie Bethell

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

March 10, 2007

In the last year since starting, the MomsRising membership has gone from 0 to over 120,000 people--and is growing weekly by 500 to 4,000 members lately. This membership growth is mainly due to friends telling friends about MomsRising—i.e. you. Working together, we are truly building a powerful...

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