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No tax cuts for wealthy corporations!

September 13, 2017
Right now, many of us have our eyes trained on Hurricane Irma, concerned about people in the path of its progress. When it rains, it pours. There’s a storm of a whole other kind brewing in our nation’s capitol—it’s one that’s not being tracked by radar on national news, and doesn’t have a catchy...
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Elyssa Schmier
Health Care

On Health Care: Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Bill Is Reckless and Harmful

September 13, 2017
In yet another partisan, secretive attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson today introduced a bill that would strip Medicaid funding, weaken protections for those with pre-existing conditions and lead to massive numbers of people...
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

Working Families NOT Wall Street! Updates on the budget and tax fight.

September 12, 2017
A new, major fight is starting in the U.S. Congress this fall. The fight is on whether or not extremists in Congress will get their way and cut the programs that boost our families’ health care, nutrition, and education in order to pay for tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy...
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Elyssa Schmier
Realistic & Fair Wages

Progress on Equal Pay Has Been Much Too Slow

September 12, 2017
It’s again confirmed: Women are not making equal pay for equal work despite now comprising nearly half of the paid labor force. This is ridiculous. It hurts women, families and our economy. According to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data, the average wage gap for a woman working full-time year-...
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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice

Your #5Actions for This Week!

September 11, 2017
Today we remember all of those who were lost and who were impacted by 9/11, including the over 3000 children who lost parents that day alone. Thank you for all you do to for our country, including via taking action with MomsRising. Below please find our top actions for the week, including on tax...
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Karen Showalter
Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

CONGRESS: ACT ON CHIP

September 8, 2017
“In this dark day of discontent So many feel despair As poverty and dissidence Cause sadness everywhere.” On May 11, 1997 Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) began his remarks at a Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) conference with the lyrics above from “Freedom’s Light,” a song written by Senator...
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Marian Wright Edelman
Environmental Health Social & Emotional Development

Indigenous medicine to reawaken your connection to nature

September 8, 2017
True medicine recognizes and brings alignment to our spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical elements, making us whole again. A visualization to tap into your heart and reconnect to the spirit of Mother Earth from Anita Sanchez, author of The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times
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Anita Sanchez, Ph.D.
Health Care

Tell Congress: Act quickly to extend CHIP!

September 8, 2017
Wouldn’t it be great if there were something members of Congress could agree on?! Well, believe it or not… THERE IS!!! But it needs a little push from you to get going. We’ve got a hugely popular, bipartisan issue that Congress can get done ASAP: Extending the hugely successful, life-saving...
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Felicia Burnett
Health Care Maternal Justice

Black birth workers support sacred birth and self-determination for Black mamas

September 8, 2017
This piece is published in partnership with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together Program. In a room filled with bright lights, Janeal entered her active stage of labor. With each contraction, she yelled and screamed. I held her hand and reminded her to breathe. Her hands were warm and soft. This was her...
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Ruth Jeannoel
Health Care

A Mesothelioma Diagnosis and a New Baby in the Same Year

September 8, 2017
When my husband and I recited our wedding vows to one another, we said “for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health.” We didn’t realize that later on in our marriage, those vows would be put to the test, all at once no less. We were your typical optimistic newlyweds, and...
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Heather Von St. James

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