Announcing the 2024-2025 Washington State MomsForce Fellows
September 16, 2024
MomsRising and MamásConPoder are thrilled to announce our fifth cohort of Washington State MomsForce fellows.
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Our Families Deserve to be Fed: Reflections on New 2023 USDA Data on Food Security!
September 10, 2024
Every family deserves access to high-quality, nutritious food to keep our children healthy and happy. The USDA recently released data on U.S. household food security from 2023 , finding one in SEVEN households (13.5 percent) in America struggled with hunger. The rates of food insecurity were higher...
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¡Nuestras familias merecen ser alimentadas! Reflexiones sobre los nuevos datos del USDA del 2023 sobre seguridad alimentaria
September 10, 2024
Toda familia merece tener acceso a comida nutritiva y de alta calidad para mantener a sus hijos sanos y felices. USDA publicó recientemente datos del 2023 sobre seguridad alimentaria en los hogares de Estados Unidos que revelaron que UNO de cada SIETE hogares (13.5%) de Estados pasaron hambre. Los...
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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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Child Care 101 : Early Childhood Educators and the Wage Gap
August 13, 2024
En Español 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 with issues of child care...
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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 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 access and afford quality...
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Child Care 101: Child Care Deserts
August 12, 2024
En Español 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 desert is “any census tract...
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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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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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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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