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Immigration Reform: Good Old Fashioned Common Sense

April 10, 2013
In February of 1971, at the age of twenty-one my mother arrived from Guatemala to the United States. She was a teacher in her country of birth and brought those skills to her new home in the United States. Like many immigrants who came before her, she saw this country as the land of opportunity and...
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Kety Esquivel
Immigration

Beyond the Green Card: Helping Immigrant Women Use Their Professional Skills

April 10, 2013
Photo courtesy of Upwardly Global. When Munara left her home and sought asylum in the US, she thought that she would find opportunities that had been denied to her in Kyrgyzstan because she was a woman. Instead, she struggled to find professional employment -- despite having a master’s degree and...
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Bao Tramonte
Immigration Family Economic Security

Immigrant Issues are Women's Issues

April 10, 2013
Photo by Cindia Cameron, 9to5 Immigrants come to the U. S. today for the same reason immigrants have always come here – for the promise of freedom and a better life that is America. We have built our country on the belief that we achieve greatness as a nation when all of us have a fair chance at...
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Linda Meric
Immigration Family Economic Security

The Real Value of In-Home Care Work in the United States

April 10, 2013
This article originally appeared in the Institute for Women's Policy Research . Baby Boomers, estimated at nearly 80 million in the United States, began turning 65 in 2011.By 2020, the population of older adults is expected to grow to 55 million from 40.4 million in 2010. As more women enter the...
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Caroline Dobuzinskis
Immigration

6 Ways Immigration Reform Can Help Women

April 10, 2013
What happens when a feminist, a labor activist and hundreds of immigrants go to Capitol Hill? If what I’ve seen in Washington D.C. the past two days is any indication, a new broad coalition of new bedfellows is taking shape to push for women’s needs to be included as Congress embarks on...
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Grace Hwang Lynch
Immigration

Dignity

April 10, 2013
Fourteen years ago, a woman named Arline asked me on a date. She took me to lunch in downtown Seattle, where we ate oysters and watched ferries glide away from the dock. I couldn't have imagined then what it would mean to share my life with an immigrant. It turns out that it means many things, but...
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Allison Green
Gun Safety

Say “Not Again” to Gun Violence in America: A Song and a Perspective from a Dad Abroad

April 10, 2013
I am very grateful to MomsRising for the opportunity to share my music and thoughts with all of you. The repeated, tragic shootings in our country have pained me. I am a proud father of three wonderful teenage daughters. Though a native New Yorker, from the Bronx, I do not live in America, nor have...
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Gregg Robins
Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

A Head on Desk Moment: A MomsRising Blog Carnival on Equal Pay

April 9, 2013
I’m having a head/desk day. You know the kind; where you just want to bang your head on your desk because you’re so frustrated. Why? Because today is Equal Pay Day – the day that marks how far into 2013 women have to work to earn what men earned for the same work in 2012. And at the rate we're...
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Ruth Martin
Gun Safety

Interfaith Call-in Day to Prevent Gun Violence

April 9, 2013
Over the past few months we have come together in the faith community many times to stop gun violence. We made a difference: our congregants made more than 10,000 calls to the Senate on February 4th in our Faiths Calling campaign. Since the Senate debate and vote on a gun violence prevention...
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Rachel Laser

It's time for this madness to end.

April 9, 2013
Here we are again. Another Equal Pay Day to mark how far into this year that women have to work to earn what men already earned last year for the SAME work. This makes me want to bang my head on my desk in frustration. Which I will do: Once. And then it’s time to pick up my head and keep working...
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Ruth Martin

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