Legislators Want to Force Women to Have Kids But Refuse To Support Them Past the Womb
It shouldn’t be politics that drives important medical decisions for women’s health.
Category: Family
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Best New Tax Benefit for Families
What’s new about the child tax credit?
The Pandemic Cost Him Everything. But the Child Tax Credit Is Giving His Family Hope.
Phil came to the U.S. in search of opportunity, but when COVID-19 hit he lost his job, immigration status, and health care when he needed it the most. Name has…
We Need a Permanent Expanded CTC for Our Children’s Futures
Like many parents, the pandemic brought so much uncertainty into my family’s life. As a wife and mother of two young children, there was no amount of planning that could…
Because…
I Vote Because I Want To Be a Cause Beyond Myself I wasn’t eligible to vote until the 2012 Presidential election. During that time, I was a freshman in college…
Because…
Still. I vote because of his work. I have made a conscious decision that his work and that of countless others cannot be in vain. I must remember that sacrifice of those before us, their persistence and refusal to back down, runs through my veins.
Because…
I vote because my life depends on it, literally and figuratively. As a Black, queer, low-income mother, another four years of what we’ve had feels like I’m signing over my own death certificate.
the Other Pandemic
“If our mental health professionals are now at the main source of the seams, then they should also be getting the funding and resources that can help train them in a way that can best humanize Black and Brown people in the streets,” said Wise. “We’ve always said it’s possible to fund other things.”
In all my COVID-19 planning that one thing I couldn’t prepare for: not being able to see my son for whom I share joint custody
When I prepared for the coronavirus in the early weeks of March, stocking up on disinfectant items, cleaning supplies, disposable masks and gloves at my local club warehouse, a week…
Voices of Everyday Leaders
Digital Organizing In The Time of COVID In the age of social-distancing, many of our everyday leaders have shifted how they operate. From educators offering instruction from a virtual classroom…