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Write a letter to the editor to speak out to #StopKavanaugh!

September 13, 2018
As I sit in my home here in Raleigh, NC awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Florence, I have an overwhelming and anxious feeling about all of the unknowns yet to come. We know there will be a huge amount of rain, wind, and downed trees, but we don’t know yet whether the impact will be a couple days...
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Felicia Burnett
Families & The Federal Budget

Take Action TODAY to Protect SNAP!

September 13, 2018
It’s crunch time in terms of securing a Farm Bill that protects SNAP (food stamps) and we need all the help we can get to ramp up energy and make sure our voices are heard by our elected officials! This is an urgent matter: 1 in 6 children in our nation are experiencing food insecurity and we can’t...
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Elyssa Schmier
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Childcare & Early Education Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

DC leaders: Fund the Birth-to-Three for All DC bill and leave Paid Family Leave alone!

September 12, 2018
So here’s a head scratcher for you: Just days before DC Mayor Muriel Bowser holds a Maternal and Infant Health Summit, she released a statement encouraging the DC Council to shift funding from the District’s Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016 to the comprehensive Birth-to-Three for All DC...
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Jeannina Perez
¡Por favor únete a MomsForce del Estado de Washington
MomsRising Paid Family Leave

¡Ayúdanos a difundir las buenas noticias! Los permisos familiares y médicos pagados están llegando a WA!

September 12, 2018
El regreso a clases viene lleno de nuevos comienzos. Una nueva temporada, nuevos salones de clase y este año, ¡una nueva política de permisos familiares y médicos pagados en el Estado de Washington! Los miembros de MomsRising se unieron en el 2017 para lograr la aprobación de la mejor política de...
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Seayoung Yim
Book club!
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#KeepMarching Book Club! Ch.1: Building an Intersectional Movement-- Together

September 12, 2018
Want to join our virtual book club? Pick up a copy of Keep Marching, share with your book club if you're in one, and read along with us! We're discussing Chapter 1: Waking Up in this post.
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Health Care Maternal Justice

Why Aren’t We Listening to Mothers?

September 12, 2018
Becoming a mom should be one of the best experiences of our lives. But for too many women who give birth in hospitals, childbirth itself isn’t the joyous event it should be. Instead, it’s fraught with frustration, medical interventions we don’t want or need, and health problems for moms and babies that were avoidable.
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Debra L. Ness
Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

Progress in Fighting Poverty Slows -- And for the First Time in Years, the number of Uninsured Americans Does Not Significantly Decline

September 12, 2018
After years of progress, the decline in the poverty rate slowed between 2016 and 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released Wednesday. In 2017, the official poverty rate was 12.3 percent, down from 12.7 percent in 2016. While workers were earning more, substantial numbers remained at...
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David Elliot
Protect SNAP
Food!

Protect SNAP

September 12, 2018
September is Hunger Action Month and the 2018 Farm Bill is at a very important crossroads. Right now Congress is trying to find a compromise between two vastly different Farm Bill versions. The House passed a Farm Bill that would cut nearly $20 billion in food assistance. The Senate's Farm Bill...
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Lisa Sherrill
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Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

Journey through Social Emotional Development as it Pertains to School

September 12, 2018
Without these skills, children are at a higher risk for mental, behavioral and developmental disorders. The latest statistics from the CDC show that 1 in 7 children (ages 2-8-years old) have a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. What it looks like in school while they are mastering these skills...
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Lina Acosta Sandaal
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Families & The Federal Budget Immigration

Quick Signature to Say NO to FEMA funds for Family Separation!

September 12, 2018
With Hurricane Florence on our doorstep, we’ve learned that t he Trump administration has diverted $10 million from FEMA ‘response and recovery’ to spend on ICE incarceration . This diversion of precious funding from disaster relief in order to pay for the separation and incarceration of families...
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Khadija Gurnah

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