Politics & Policy

Senate subcommittee hearing on protecting immigrant children

August 17, 2018

On Aug. 16, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on what federal agencies are doing – or rather, aren’t doing enough of – to protect unaccompanied migrant children from abuse and human trafficking once they enter the U.S.

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Lecia Imbery

We Are MomsRising!

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

August 6, 2018

In our third installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Sheri in Iowa who used SNAP while being a single mom and being in school. She recently graduated this May. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post. There is this myth that people...

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Abbie Gately

Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Politics & Policy

August 3, 2018

The Coalition on Human Needs submitted comments today to the Commerce Department voicing our strong opposition to the inclusion of a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census. Such a question would likely increase the undercount of children, especially children of color, those identifying as Hispanic/Latino, and those in low-income households.

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Debbie Weinstein

Childcare & Early Education Immigration Politics & Policy

July 27, 2018

Who counts as a person in America? The answer is more complicated than it should be. Every ten years the government is required by the Constitution to count the entire resident population of the United States. The Census matters for a very long list of reasons beginning with political...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

July 23, 2018

Read on for the latest on the House Labor-H bill and other FY19 spending, migrant family separations, proposed SNAP cuts, reactions to the Supreme Court nominee, threats to the ACA, and more.

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Lecia Imbery

Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

July 17, 2018

Urge the Portland City Council to pass a universal earned sick days ordinance that doesn't leave out certain workers or families!

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Sara Alcid

Immigration Politics & Policy

July 13, 2018

Toxic stress is the highest costs of the Trump Administration’s shameful punishment of those fleeing violence. But there are other dollar costs that underscore how unnecessarily bad their approach is.

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Debbie Weinstein

Breastfeeding Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Politics & Policy

July 11, 2018

While Candidate Trump may have claimed to love babies, the harm President Trump’s actions and policies are doing to them is undeniable.

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Lecia Imbery

Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

July 5, 2018

The Albuquerque City Council is considering paid sick days legislation this session and we have an opportunity to influence the scope and strength of the ordinance.

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Sara Alcid

Deborah Weinstein, CHN’s Executive Director, arrested in action at Senate office building.

Immigration Politics & Policy

June 29, 2018

Yesterday in Washington, DC, women placed their bodies and their hearts where the children had been days before. More than 500 of us got arrested by sitting down in the Hart Senate Office Building. My favorite chant? “Stop stealing babies!”

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Debbie Weinstein