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MomsRising's COVID Relief Priorities

February 12, 2021
The moms of America urge leaders to immediately pass a comprehensive, robust COVID-relief package that centers the growing racial disparity in COVID-19 morbidity throughout each issue area and lifts families and our economy. Shocking data show Black, Latinx, and Native American people are dying at rates markedly higher than white Americans.
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Health Care Politics & Policy

To Protect Kids, Eliminate All Flavored Tobacco Products

February 12, 2021
These are indeed challenging times while our nation battles the COVID-19 pandemic. But we can’t forget another public health crisis that long preceded this pandemic – tobacco use, which is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. We must continue the fight to protect kids and...
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Review the Week: Caregivers, Kids and Black Girl Magic

February 5, 2021
ICYMI: Helping others find their voice...and their power...is one of the beautiful super powers of the MomsRising community. This past week, members like you stood up for students, celebrating Black Women and lifted up the care providers who are holding our communities together. Here are the voices...
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Paid Family Leave

SIGN NOW: Paid Leave Saves Lives

February 3, 2021
I'll get right to the point: Paid leave saves lives, during the pandemic and always. Congress let it expire in December. We must include it in the next COVID-19 relief package. → Join us to tell Congress this isn't negotiable, and they need to act quickly to pass permanent paid leave immediately...
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Politics & Policy

Sense, Satire, and Support: Towards Helping Our Kids Overcome Information Overload

February 2, 2021
It was just a few days after the 2016 election that I last wrote here to offer my thoughts to the MomsRising community on how to explain that election to our children. I suggested telling our kids about the golden rule, and how Donald Trump’s victory should not mean that his numerous displays of...
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Your January Parent Power Newsletter!

February 1, 2021
2021 has just begun and MomsRising is already hitting the ground running -- but first, we’re taking a moment to celebrate having the first Black, South Asian woman Vice President in the history of the United States! This is a moment to pause and recognize how far we’ve come to reach this long-...
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Politics & Policy

SIGN NOW: Counselors not cops in schools!

February 1, 2021
There was yet another violent police attack on a child in school last week. We are once again enraged. *TAKE ACTION: Our schools need more counselors, nurses, social workers, and educators who have the training they need to effectively support students, NOT cops. Tell Congress to ACT NOW! [Content...
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Your #5Actions For The Past Week

January 31, 2021
We need your help this week. All of us have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. We’ve lost friends and loved ones, fought the illness ourselves, have struggled with the changing employment landscape, dealt with new roles at home and in so many other ways.
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Review the Week: Onward, Parents & Caregivers!

January 29, 2021
ICYMI: Hey Congress...GET TO WORK! That's the message MomsRising members have been sending to their elected officials this past week, demanding immediate boosts for COVID-19 assistance and more long-term transformative policy changes to help ALL of us thrive. Check out these three actions and...
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Childcare & Early Education

Share Your Stories and Let’s Save NY Childcare!

January 28, 2021
This morning, I took my three year old daughter to a new daycare center for the first time since the pandemic started. After months of delaying the grueling process, and, if I’m being honest, not ready to pick a new daycare for my daughter (I spent months being very upset that my amazing daycare...
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