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Immigration

Keeping Families Together

August 19, 2024
On August 19 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published the application for Parole in Place for undocumented immigrant spouses, and stepchildren, of U.S. citizens. This is part of a June announcement by the Biden Administration to keep families together . Under this policy announcement...
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Claudia Tristán
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Child Care 101 : Early Childhood Educators and the Wage Gap

August 13, 2024
En Español/Spanish Language Version Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care When it comes to fixing our nation’s broken child care system, our leaders must address the worsening pay gap and low wages of Early Childhood Educators along...
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S. Nadia Hussain
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Child Care 101 : A History of Child Care in the U.S and the Nixon Veto

August 13, 2024
En Español/Spanish Language Version Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care. Families could have had child care decades ago… Video of Families could have had child care decades ago… Today, as moms, children and families struggle to...
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S. Nadia Hussain
Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security MomsVote Parenting & Families Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

Child Care 101: Child Care Deserts

August 12, 2024
En Español/Spanish Language Version Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care What designates an area as a child care desert, what even is a child care desert? According to our friends at the Center for American Progress, a child care...
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S. Nadia Hussain
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Celebrate National Breastfeeding Month with MomsRising!

August 1, 2024
This August we are celebrating National Breastfeeding Month and this year's theme is - Nourish, Sustain, Thrive! We're still on top of the world celebrating the the rights that pregnant and pumping workers have in the workplace. You can learn (and share) about the legal protections for pregnant and...
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Tina Sherman
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Health Care

Quick signature: Medical Debt Doesn’t Belong on Your Credit Report!

August 1, 2024
Two-weeks ago, I got a panicked call from my teen son. He had dislocated his knee at Judo practice, couldn’t get up, and didn’t know what to do. I told him to call an ambulance, then I hopped in the car to go to him. As I drove there, I was—of course—extremely worried about my son, but, if I’m...
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Felicia Burnett
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Health Care Politics & Policy

Let's Address the Virus in the Room... Everything You Need to Know About COVID-19

July 31, 2024
[This blog post was updated the week of August 5, 2024.] As we approach the end of Disability Pride Month today, we want to give you a COVID-19 crash course on everything you need to know and more! The United States is currently seeing massive increases of COVID-19 cases , with one report...
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Hanna Addis
Childcare & Early Education

Nueva York necesita un cuidado infantil que funcione para las familias y los proveedores

July 19, 2024
Cuando mi primogénito tenía dos años descubrí una pequeña guardería encantadora que quedaba a unos diez minutos a pie de mi casa. Era perfecta: el horario funcionaba para nosotros, tenía educadores que hablaban español y le daban comida casera a mi hijo. ¡Incluso tenía un espacio al aire libre...
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Diana Limongi
Parenting & Families Social & Emotional Development

Another Solution to the Social Media Over-Use That’s Jeopardizing Kids’ Mental Health

July 19, 2024
By Jodi Grant and Delaney Ruston The calls to protect our kids from the harms caused by social media are intensifying. The Surgeon General issued an unprecedented call to put warning labels on social media platforms. Los Angeles’s Unified school District, the second largest school district in the...
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Jodi Grant
Childcare & Early Education

New York Needs Child Care to Work For Families and Providers

July 18, 2024
When my firstborn was two years old, I discovered a lovely little child care center that was about a 10 minute walk from my home. It was perfect: it had the hours that worked for us, it had Spanish-speaking educators, and fed my child home-cooked meals. It also had an outdoor space in the back! (If...
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