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With Corporations and the GOP Putting Profits Over Our Babies, I’m Panicked over the Formula Shortage

May 26, 2022

By Topacio Marrero

My third baby is due in less than a week. I’m scared and asking legislators to put families first.

Give California children their voter approved money now

March 16, 2021

By Sharisse Tracey

A whole year later and California kids are still in need, and with the pandemic even more so. While the country eagerly awaits their minimum $1400 to hit their bank…

We need Presidential candidates to detail their commitment to achieving quality, affordable and culturally relevant child care for all families

October 2, 2019

By Danielle Atkinson

Trending with the hashtag #WhatMamasWant, hundreds of mothers in Michigan organized a forum on issues that impact their lives and then gathered to watch the two-day Democratic presidential debates in…

Want to win in 2020? Focus on child care!

April 15, 2019

By Carmella Salinas and Tameka Ramsey

The evidence is clear: the lack of affordable and accessible child care is drowning America’s working families. A 2018 poll by the Center for American Progress and Community Change found…

Bold ideas rooted in the lives, experiences of real people

March 21, 2019

By Center for Community Change

Now you can check out some of the discussions from the event and hear for yourself how power and agency are at the root of economic justice for our communities.

Here’s why America is talking about Universal Child Care

February 19, 2019

By Marisol Bello

This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren unveiled her plan for Universal Child Care, signaling its place atop the national political agenda. In it, she details the difficulties of finding affordable and…

Home Alone: A Single Mother Tries to Navigate Missoula’s Child Care Crisis

September 29, 2016

By Stephanie Land

Photo Credits to Brian Hart. Originally published by the Missoula Independent. My life as a single mother has often meant looking up, helpless, waving goodbye like Wile E. Coyote, after…

Here’s How Many People it Takes to Replace a Single Mom

April 27, 2016

By Stephanie Land

Originally published on SheKnows.  In the weeks building up to a business trip, I created a schedule for the five people who’d replace me, a single mom with two kids,…

Building the Economic Strength of Women

March 7, 2013

By Alesia Lucas

March 8th is International Women’s Day, and although it’s 2013, American women still lag behind men in paycheck fairness. Women still make a mere 64 cents for every dollar their…

Alone on Valentine’s Day Because Of Deportation

February 15, 2013

By Alesia Lucas

In December the Fair Immigration Reform Movement launched the Keeping Families Together campaign, the campaign collects the countless stories of families split because of our broken immigration system. Yesterday was…

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