Politics & Policy

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 10, 2014

Last week, moms who work at Walmart walked off the job across the country. Joined by co-workers and allies, they have been calling for respect and decent wages—at least $25,000 a year—and demanding an end to retaliation against employees who speak out for better working conditions. They also took...

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Liz Shuler

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 9, 2014

Newsflash: Child care is expensive . In a majority of states, the cost of child care for an infant exceeds the cost of public college tuition . That cost pinches the wallets of all families with young children in paid child care. For low-income families, it’s much more than a pinch— on average,...

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Susanna Birdsong

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 9, 2014

Early childhood education continues to receive growing support from within Pennsylvania. Through the statewide Pre-K for PA campaign, educators and community leaders are not the only ones expressing a commitment to investing in the state's youngest learners. Former Gov. Ed Rendell (D) and Former...

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Mary E. Mannix

Politics & Policy

June 8, 2014

Volví a Miami, Florida recientemente para visitar a mi madre por el Día de las Madres, y encontré un montón de mis viejos CDs mezclados de cuando tenía 15 años. Decidí escuchar uno y lo que oí era una combinación asombrosa de Shakira, Boys to Men, Enrique Iglesias y Savage Garden. Escucharlo me...

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Jeannina Perez

Politics & Policy

June 8, 2014

I went back to Miami, Florida recently to visit my mom for Mother’s Day and found a bunch of my old mixed CDs from when I was 15. I decided to give one a listen and what I heard was an amazing amalgamation of Shakira, Boys to Men, Enrique Iglesias, and Savage Garden. Listening to it made me smile,...

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Jeannina Perez

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 5, 2014

My friend and colleague in the fight for family caregivers, Janice Lynch Schuster, recently had a conversation with her children about what may happen when she becomes older. It went like this, as Janice wrote in Fierce Urgency of Now: Family Caregivers and the Future that is Upon Us for the blog...

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Valerie Young

Politics & Policy

June 3, 2014

In May of 2006 I co-founded MomsRising with a mission of creating a multicultural movement of mothers – and of everyone who has ever had a mother! – to advance family economic security and to end discrimination against mothers. Since then, MomsRising has grown to a million members nationwide, including members in every state in our nation, who according to an analysis we commissioned, mirror the U.S. Census in terms of race and ethnicity.

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Politics & Policy

June 3, 2014

Después de muchas horas de trabajo detrás del telón, estamos muy contentas de presentarles MamásConPoder.org , la comunidad de habla hispana de MomsRising.org . Como mamás latinas conscientes de la situación política actual, estamos muy orgullosas de ser parte de éste proyecto donde MomsRising.org...

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Elisa Batista

Politics & Policy

June 3, 2014

After countless hours of planning, writing and a lot of behind-the-scenes work, we are pleased to unveil MomsRising’s new Spanish-language website for the Latino community, MamásConPoder.org!

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Elisa Batista

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 2, 2014

It has been over 50 years since John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, but we are still fighting for equal pay for equal work for all. Right now the wage gap is kind of like the faces on U.S. money...only straight white men earn full dollars. Everyone else is left with pocket change. The graphic...

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