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** parents 🥰🥰🥰 @momsfirst.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Nearly 1.5 million births across the U.S. were covered by Medicaid. Funding cuts could devastate children’s futures.

Call our RI members now at 866-426-2631 and tell them to protect #Medicaid!
February 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
How parents, advocates want to make RI more friendly for families with young kids

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...
How parents, advocates want to make RI more friendly for families with young kids
The group urged lawmakers to expand access to child care assistance and work to bring in more pediatricians.
www.providencejournal.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Only then will the loving fantasies of our better nature transform into reality. The work and fight for the dream persists, and what’s more, it is not just a fight, but fate—that perhaps we are as destined for this time as it is destined for us.
January 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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As our Director of Early Childhood Policy says -- "This requirement is unnecessary, unusual, and burdensome for families applying for child care assistance."

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Should participation in the Child Support Enforcement System be a requirement to get assistance in R.I.? - The Boston Globe
The director of early childhood policy and strategy at Rhode Island Kids Count says the state should repeal the “unnecessary, unusual, and burdensome” requirement.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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EITC turns 50!

Our Director of Early Childhood Policy + Strategy Leanne w our RIght from the Start partners Divya from EPI and Marcela from LPI at the UWRI event celebrating one of the most effective policies helping families w children!

#EITC
January 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM