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Breastfeeding Families & The Federal Budget Food!

November 9, 2017

WIC is a short-term program shown to improve health outcomes in babies, including improving birth weights and reducing infant mortality rates, as well as stronger outcomes for moms in managing weight gain in pregnancy, prolonging breastfeeding duration, and helping moms access breastfeeding support...

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Abbie Gately

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Maternal Justice

November 8, 2017

We need YOU to speak out in order to stop this awful tax bill that hurts our families and our economy. Here are 5 ways you can quickly take action!

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Elyssa Schmier

Food!

November 7, 2017

We all want what’s best for our children and strive to keep them healthy and happy. This is very difficult in today’s hectic world . Our children are being constantly exposed to seductive advertising for non-healthy food and beverage options. Sugary drinks are one major culprit of health problems...

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Dr. John Rausch, MD, MPH

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

November 6, 2017

Something really scary happened recently! Scarier than those ghosts, witches, and ghouls that showed up trick-or-treating at your door the other night. Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill today that would give $1.5 trillion (TRILLION!!) in tax cuts to the top 1...

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Elyssa Schmier

Family Economic Security Food! Military Families

November 6, 2017

Our nation’s veterans have made innumerable sacrifices in service to our country. They have earned our gratitude and our support, and on Veterans Day our country formally honors them for that service. If we are to truly make meaningful the tributes that we pay to our veterans, then surely, we...

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Abby Leibman

Food!

November 2, 2017

I admit; I can be swayed by the food industry’s marketing messages. When I see ads depicting fruits and vegetables or using physical activity to promote food or drinks, it causes me to think that products may be healthier than they actually are. And it turns out kids think the same thing. A new...

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Sally Mancini

Families & The Federal Budget Food! Politics & Policy

November 2, 2017

The U.S. Congress just unveiled a tax bill that would give 80% of tax cuts to the top 1%. Meanwhile, low and middle-income families across the country will be left footing the bill through higher taxes and cuts to vital health care, nutrition, and education programs. Concerned parents, grandparents...

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Abbie Gately

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Food! MomsRising Near You Social & Emotional Development

October 27, 2017

Also featured on our Care.com blog , check it out here: https://www.care.com/c/stories/12485/halloween-roundup-have-a-fun-spooky... At MomsRising, we want your family to have the best - and safest - Halloween possible! From toxic chemicals to food allergies, there are many spooky things that could...

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Abbie Gately

Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Politics & Policy

October 21, 2017

This piece originally appeared in the Daily Kos . To say that the last month has been intense is an understatement. I have family in Puerto Rico – my grandfather, aunt, uncle, cousins and the rest of my mother’s extended family– and like every other Puerto Rican on the island, they are feeling the...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Politics & Policy

October 13, 2017

In the popular book turned movie, The Hunger Games, set in a post-apocalyptic world, the Capitol of Panem (bread in Latin), rules over thirteen nation-states referred to as districts. After one district attempts to ignite a rebellion against the Capitol, the ruling government obliterates it...

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