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We Are MomsRising, Te'Jal from Ohio (part 2)

April 12, 2019
In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Te’Jal in Ohio again, this time about how the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit help her family! Te'Jal got to share this story with her Senator, Sherrod Brown, and discuss the importance of his new bill, the Working Families...
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Abbie Gately
Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Paid Family Leave

Top #5Actions of the Past Week: April 12, 2019

April 12, 2019
Happy Friday! Monday is Tax Day, so our first top action this week is to send a letter to your local paper about the Trump TaxScam! Publishing a letter in your local paper is easier than you might think, and a great way to generate local conversation around an issue you care about. Also on the tax...
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Karen Showalter
Social & Emotional Development

Change the Currency to Reflect All of Us in America

April 12, 2019
Every day I wear a pair of medallions around my neck with portraits of two of my role models: Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. As a child I read books about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. She and the indomitable and eloquent Sojourner Truth represent countless anonymous slave women...
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Marian Wright Edelman
Sign up: Statewide day of action to expand Medicaid!
Health Care

Quick Action: Statewide day of action to expand Medicaid!

April 11, 2019
Medicaid helps families weather the storm during times of need—whether it be during a health care crisis or a time of financial hardship. But in North Carolina, our lawmakers have yet to make this critical and often life-saving program available to about half a million low-income uninsured adults...
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Felicia Burnett
San Miguel de Allende, bilingual kids
Childcare & Early Education

Why Use Music to Start Your Bilingual Journey

April 10, 2019
“Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi?” on loop … that was my 90’s song from Patti LaBelle’s 1974 hit. Why that had to become my earworm to haunt my young adulthood says more about my aspirations than my reality, but it did pique my interest in foreign languages. Flash forward a million years and I am a...
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Amy Rush Conroy
Take Action!
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Health Care MomsRising Open Flexible Work Realistic & Fair Wages

QUICK SIGNATURE: Stand with our nurses!

April 9, 2019
I come from a long line of nurses: my grandma is a nurse, my mom is a nurse, my aunts are nurses, and so are my cousins. These women work hard every day to provide outstanding care for premature babies, new parents recovering from childbirth, and patients fighting for their lives in the emergency...
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Maggie Humphreys
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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care MomsRising

#GoodNews This Week: Getting a Boost from Tax Credits and more!

April 9, 2019
GOOD NEWS ON OUR RADIO SHOW : Big wins relating to the #FREEnewyork criminal justice reform campaign in New York! Listen for the details on how we're moving criminal justice reform forward in partnership with other groups on the ground in New York. The show also gets into why the End Diaper Need...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
Clean Up WA's Tax Code!
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Family Economic Security MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages

QUICK SIGNATURE: Clean up Washington's tax code!

April 8, 2019
Today, moms, parents, and advocates gathered in Olympia to testify in strong support of Senate Bill 5961 -- a bill that will fundamentally change the structure of Washington's tax code by creating a capital gains tax on the wealthiest Washingtonians and funding the Working Families Tax Credit...
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Maggie Humphreys
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Gun Safety Politics & Policy

QUICK SIGNATURE to pass this #GunSafety legislation (even Republicans like it!)

April 8, 2019
Cold-hearted. That’s one of the only polite words I can come up with to describe how the gun lobby and their allies in Congress have stonewalled every effort to reduce our country’s gun violence epidemic. But now there’s new legislation that would prevent school shootings and suicides — and people...
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Gloria Pan
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Health Care

Crafting for Medicaid Awareness Month!

April 8, 2019
Crafts are a fun way for kids to be able to participate in advocacy in a meaningful way. Here are directions for a fun springtime craft you can do with your children to deliver to your state lawmakers' and members of Congress' offices.
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Felicia Burnett

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