#MilitaryMonday: How filing your taxes can boost your military family!
April 11, 2016
Tax Day is coming up! Is your #milfamily prepared?
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Income Inequality: The Housing Struggle
April 8, 2016
“I was in Newark and Harlem just this week. And I walked into the homes of welfare mothers. I saw them in conditions—no, not with wall-to-wall carpet, but wall-to-wall rats and roaches. . . . [One mother] pointed out the walls with all the ceiling falling through. She showed me the holes where the...
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Fact of the Week: Lower-Income Renters Spend Nearly Half of Income on Rent
April 7, 2016
Investing in housing and renters' assistance improves the health outcomes of infants and children and lowers healthcare spending.
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1,000,000 Women, Mostly Mothers, Are Behind Bars Or On Parole In The United States
April 5, 2016
1,000,000 women, mostly mothers are behind bars or under criminal justice supervision in the United States . Two-thirds of the women in federal prisons are serving time for challenges related to nonviolent drug abuse. They need treatment and counseling, not incarceration. Our justice system is...
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School Should Be A Pathway To Success, Not A Pipeline To Prison!
April 5, 2016
The stories are unbelievable ! A Queens first grader with learning disabilities was handcuffed by police and suspended from school when he became upset while painting an easter egg in class . Alexa Gonzalez, a 12-year-old Queens girl was suspended from school and hauled off in handcuffs for...
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Let's make early learning a priority in all cities
April 5, 2016
I know there’s a whole lot of yuck happening in national politics right now, but we have good news! In spite of all the yuck, local leaders are doing GREAT things on early learning across the country. Leaders like Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, who is piloting an evidence-based 4-year universal pre-k...
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The Wage Gap: Short-Changing Women and Families
April 4, 2016
Lucy and Twins Photo.jpg Let's fast forward to the year 2059. My 11-year old daughter Lucy will be 55, and my two-year old twins, Cecilia and Eleanor, will turn 45. It's fun to contemplate all that they might achieve over the next four decades. It's not so fun to think about the fact that it will...
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Running a Business and Being a Mom is a Daily Struggle
April 1, 2016
This post first appeared on Facebook. It's 10pm. The babies are in bed and I'm trying to get some work done. I've noticed I haven't shared much personal on Facebook lately. Trying to share more other than articles I've read and honestly, I wanted to bring something up that I've been thinking about...
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Tipped workers need a pay raise
April 1, 2016
How long has it been since you’ve had a raise? For some workers, it has been entirely too long. Today – Friday, April 1, 2016 – marks the 25 th anniversary since the minimum wage for tipped workers has been increased. For 25 years now, the minimum wage for an estimated 5.3 million workers in the U...
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Hey Congress: Opioid Abuse is Still an Emergency
April 1, 2016
More Americans die every year from drug overdoses than they do in car crashes. That’s one of the reasons President Obama was in Atlanta this Tuesday speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit, the largest national collaboration of local, state and federal agencies, business, academia, treatment providers, counselors and advocates impacted by prescription drug abuse and heroin use.
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