Family Economic Security

Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

February 12, 2015

Tell us about your work and how it began. I founded Uzazi Village in 2012 after a career as a labor and delivery nurse, and later as faculty teaching maternal infant health. I wanted to have a more direct impact on perinatal (pregnancy-related) health outcomes in my community. I wrote a curriculum...

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Sherry Payne

Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

February 12, 2015

Tell us about View From A Rack and how it began. Moon : I started View From A Rack because countless women have numerous questions about breastfeeding and mothering and there was really no one to ask. A lot of women reached out to me and needed to have someone they could trust to show them they are...

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Afrykayn Moon

Blog Carnivals Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

February 11, 2015

Tell us about Table for Two and how it began. Table for Two (TFT) is a community organization that seeks to establish public lactation rooms for breastfeeding mothers. We provide grassroots and real-world approaches to building global breastfeeding acceptance. The signature TFT campaign asks the...

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Sojourner Marable Grimmett

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

February 9, 2015

Budgets are about our nation’s priorities: What do we want to spend money on? How are we going to raise the money we want to spend? And though ultimately the budget enacted by Congress will probably look very different from the budget proposal released by the president, the president’s budget is important. It’s the president’s vision for the country in fiscal year 2016 and beyond and reflects input and spending requests from every federal agency.

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Jasmine Tucker

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

February 6, 2015

“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

February 5, 2015

Join us in wishing the Family and Medical Leave Act a happy 22nd anniversary! In this brief video , Carmen Berkley, director of the AFL-CIO Office of Civil, Human and Women's Rights, tells us why the FMLA is important and stresses the need for an additional paid sick leave law. Next week, the...

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Liz Shuler

Family Economic Security Food! Paid Sick Days

January 27, 2015

More than 100 years ago, after Upton Sinclair worked undercover in Chicago meatpacking plants, he revealed the abuse and exploitation of immigrant workers in the industry—including the tragic story of a worker who fell into a rendering tank. Public reaction to his great book, “ The Jungle ,” forced...

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Liz Shuler

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

January 26, 2015

The voters and the President are all on board about raising the wage. Now we need YOU to convince Congress!!

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Elyssa Schmier

Family Economic Security Food!

January 23, 2015

For-profit corporation Medolac has announced the cessation of their plans to launch a Mothers Milk Co-op in Detroit, Michigan in response to breastfeeding activists’ demands for public accountability. As a Clinton Global Initiative to increase breastfeeding and economic empowerment in Detroit,...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Play BINGO!

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

January 20, 2015

This Tuesday night (tomorrow night!) at 9pm ET / 6pm PT President Barack Obama will be giving the 2015 State of the Union. In order to make watching fun, we've created a BINGO card to help you track whether or not the issues of greatest concern to women, moms, and families are covered in the speech.

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