Immigration

February 16, 2018

On my first day as a working mother, my brand new child care provider held my infant son with one arm and rubbed my back with other as I cried. After four months at home with him, I had mixed feelings about returning to work. She assured me that he would be in good hands and that he would love...

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Katie Hamm

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Politics & Policy

February 9, 2018

The Coalition on Human Needs just released another edition of the Human Needs Report, with the latest on Congress’s spending and budget work, President Trump’s FY19 budget, immigration, work requirements, and more.

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Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Politics & Policy

February 9, 2018

God has sent some huge rainbows in the clouds for vulnerable children amidst a profoundly negative political climate. Good news these days has been few and far between but the Bipartisan Budget Package/Continuing Resolution (CR) signed by the President earlier today offers significant and long...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Military Families MomsVote Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

January 30, 2018

"We were divided and conquered because the intersectional history that held our movements together had been ignored and forgotten."

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Paid Family Leave Realistic & Fair Wages

January 29, 2018

On the Heels of the #Me Too Movement and Women’s March Anniversary, Women Offer Alternative Vision to Trump Agenda

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Immigration

January 26, 2018

¿Qué está pasando? Sí, ¿ qué está pasando? Donald Trump puso fin a DACA, el programa que protegía a los DREAMers, hace cinco meses. Los republicanos dejaron que el Programa de Seguro de Salud para Niños (CHIP, por sus siglas en inglés) expire hace cuatro largos meses. Todo esto es simplemente...

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Khadija Gurnah

Immigration

January 26, 2018

TPS holders are our friends, employers, family, and neighbors. The majority of TPS holders have been in the U.S. for many years, even decades, because their countries are unsafe. TPS holders have built homes, businesses, and families here. In fact, TPS holders from just three countries, El Salvador...

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Khadija Gurnah

Immigration

January 26, 2018

The framework for immigration the White House released yesterday is not a serious proposal for sound immigration reform. Instead, it continues the shameful immigration policies this administration has tried to advance since President Trump took office. It uses DREAMers as pawns in a plan to advance...

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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

January 26, 2018

“You promised.” Children learn the value and power of those words very early on as they begin to develop a sense of morality and trust. A preschooler will show deep outrage when an adult promise isn’t kept. The Continuing Resolution that ended this week’s government shutdown relied on a series of...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Immigration

January 26, 2018

We condemn President Trump's destructive racism and call on Congress to stand with immigrant communities and with the integrity of our nation. Not only is Donald Trump’s racism dangerously harmful but it also puts lives at risk because he’s putting his racism into policy that fractures families and...

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