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Say No to Keeping Information from Consumers! Menu labeling helps families.

February 6, 2018
There's a lot going on this year, and we can't let our guard down around demanding healthy communities for our kids. Because {{ user.first_name|default:"Friend" }}: guess what? They're launching yet *another* attack on menu labeling. It's true. And your voice is needed to speak out *today*, before...
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Karen Showalter
Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

The State of the Union: Morally Dead and Leaving Vulnerable Children Behind

February 2, 2018
As I listened to President Trump’s State of the Union Address waiting to hear even a kernel of hope for our country’s most vulnerable children I became more and more distressed and disgusted as these children’s needs were once again left behind along with the values of the America and all great...
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Marian Wright Edelman
Social & Emotional Development

2018 Super Bowl Controversies to Watch Out For

February 1, 2018
For a fun family-and-friends event, the Super Bowl sure generates a lot of controversy: the infamous "wardrobe malfunction" of 2004, Tom Brady's deflate-gate, and that scary, depressing Nationwide Insurance "dead kid" ad that had parents all over the country covering their kids' eyes. This year,...
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Caroline Knorr
Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Military Families MomsVote Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

Rise Up! Remarks by Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw, Alicia Garza, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner for #PowerToThePolls

January 30, 2018
"We were divided and conquered because the intersectional history that held our movements together had been ignored and forgotten."
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Anita Sarah Jackson
Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Paid Family Leave Realistic & Fair Wages

Women Unite to Challenge Gender Inequality and Trump Agenda with “State of Our Union”

January 29, 2018
On the Heels of the #Me Too Movement and Women’s March Anniversary, Women Offer Alternative Vision to Trump Agenda
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Health Care

Thank you to all who spoke out for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)!

January 29, 2018
They FINALLY did it! Part of the Continuing Resolution (CR) that Congress passed last week continued funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for six years. MomsRising members submitted hundreds of letters to the editor, made thousands of phone calls, and sent tens of thousands of...
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Felicia Burnett
Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

Washington Leaders: Don't deny women the right to fight for their own worth

January 28, 2018
MomsRising sent the following letter to the Washington State Legislature in regards to current equal pay legislation before the State House and Senate. Call your elected officials in Olympia to share your opposition to any form of preemption in the Equal Pay Opportunity Act 1-888-523-8974 : Dear...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Podcast

Power To The Polls!

January 27, 2018
On the radio show this week we celebrate that millions of women again just took to the streets to march on the Women’s March anniversary with the co-President of the march; we celebrate that paid family/medial leave is gaining momentum across the nation including in Pennsylvania where a recent poll...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Immigration

¿¡¿QUÉ está pasando?!?

January 26, 2018
¿Qué está pasando? Sí, ¿ qué está pasando? Donald Trump puso fin a DACA, el programa que protegía a los DREAMers, hace cinco meses. Los republicanos dejaron que el Programa de Seguro de Salud para Niños (CHIP, por sus siglas en inglés) expire hace cuatro largos meses. Todo esto es simplemente...
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Khadija Gurnah
Immigration

Send a QUICK Letter to the Editor in Support of Immigrant Families

January 26, 2018
TPS holders are our friends, employers, family, and neighbors. The majority of TPS holders have been in the U.S. for many years, even decades, because their countries are unsafe. TPS holders have built homes, businesses, and families here. In fact, TPS holders from just three countries, El Salvador...
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Khadija Gurnah

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