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Fact of the Week: Lower-Income Renters Spend Nearly Half of Income on Rent

April 7, 2016
Investing in housing and renters' assistance improves the health outcomes of infants and children and lowers healthcare spending.
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Lecia Imbery
Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

Sorry, Pfizer (Not Sorry!)

April 6, 2016
Cross posted from Coalition for Human Needs (CHN). Back in February, we at Coalition for Human Needs told you about a tax-dodging scheme that is all too common in this day and age: Pfizer, a U.S. pharmaceutical company and one of the world’s largest, wanted to avoid $35 billion in U.S. taxes on...
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David Elliot
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#Radio This Week: Antics in Politics!

April 5, 2016
We start out the show untangling the Presidential Primary, then move to hearing about the horrible new law passed in North Carolina and what you can do to help fix it. Next we cover the real, modern family story in our nation; and we close the show with an important conversation about drug policy...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

1,000,000 Women, Mostly Mothers, Are Behind Bars Or On Parole In The United States

April 5, 2016
1,000,000 women, mostly mothers are behind bars or under criminal justice supervision in the United States . Two-thirds of the women in federal prisons are serving time for challenges related to nonviolent drug abuse. They need treatment and counseling, not incarceration. Our justice system is...
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Beatriz Beckford
Health Care

Can you go with the flow?

April 5, 2016
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” – Lao Tzu Last weekend my teenager was in total...
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Renee Trudeau
Take Action!
Family Economic Security

School Should Be A Pathway To Success, Not A Pipeline To Prison!

April 5, 2016
The stories are unbelievable ! A Queens first grader with learning disabilities was handcuffed by police and suspended from school when he became upset while painting an easter egg in class . Alexa Gonzalez, a 12-year-old Queens girl was suspended from school and hauled off in handcuffs for...
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Beatriz Beckford
Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

Let's make early learning a priority in all cities

April 5, 2016
I know there’s a whole lot of yuck happening in national politics right now, but we have good news! In spite of all the yuck, local leaders are doing GREAT things on early learning across the country. Leaders like Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, who is piloting an evidence-based 4-year universal pre-k...
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Jeannina Perez
Family Economic Security MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

The Wage Gap: Short-Changing Women and Families

April 4, 2016
Lucy and Twins Photo.jpg Let's fast forward to the year 2059. My 11-year old daughter Lucy will be 55, and my two-year old twins, Cecilia and Eleanor, will turn 45. It's fun to contemplate all that they might achieve over the next four decades. It's not so fun to think about the fact that it will...
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Mary Kay Devine
Blog Carnivals

Navigating Identity and Family in a Climate of Islamophobia

April 4, 2016
The climate of Islamophobia in this country is causing American Muslims great anxiety. Children are bullied for being Muslim (or for ‘looking’ Muslim), mosques are set on fire and vandalized , presidential candidates call for ‘Muslim neighborhoods’ to be patrolled , women are told to take their...
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Kristin Garrity Sekerci
Family Economic Security

Running a Business and Being a Mom is a Daily Struggle

April 1, 2016
This post first appeared on Facebook. It's 10pm. The babies are in bed and I'm trying to get some work done. I've noticed I haven't shared much personal on Facebook lately. Trying to share more other than articles I've read and honestly, I wanted to bring something up that I've been thinking about...
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Chantilly Patiño

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