Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)

On the #RADIO show this week we cover a critical important movement to invest in kids and divest from youth prisons; hear the latest on the efforts to get police out of schools and use those funds to support kids instead; learn about the history of the defund movement and police violence in America; and get the lowdown on the most recent COVID-19 relief package thats in the US Senate.

*Special guests include: Liz Ryan, Youth First Initiative, @NoKidsInPrison; Beatriz Beckford, MomsRising, @MomsRising, Andrea Ritchie, Barnard Center For Research on Women, @dreanyc123; and Matt Hayward, Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, @WeBuildProgress.  

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 On the #RADIO show this week we cover the fight for extended Unemployment Insurance (UI) and what you can do to help get the U.S. Senate moving on UI; the current childcare crisis, Head Start, and the incredible return on investments in childcare for our nation; unfair pay and the impact of COVID-19 on women’s wages, including how women of color are experiencing the most extreme wage discrimination due to structural racism, and what we each can do to help move toward fair pay; and also what you can do to help increase access to healthcare coverage.  (Also don’t forget to  text DoYourJob to 747464.)
 
*Special guests include: Elyssa Schmier, MomsRising,@MomsRising; Tommy Sheridan,  National Head Start Association, @NatlHeadStart; Jen Klein, Time’s Up, @TIMESUPNOW; Jessica Schubel, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @CenterOnBudget
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On the #RADIO show this week we cover why getting police out of schools is so important; the history of the powerful strategy of defunding and divesting from policing and investing in communities; an upcoming news film that breaks through in the childcare conversation; and the US Supreme Court victory with DACA and why its so important to vote and request a vote-by-mail ballot for November right now.

*Special guests include: Kim Ellison, Chair Minneapolis Board of Education, @MPS_News; Philip V. McHarris, author and lead research and policy and associate at the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, @philipvmcharris; Greg Jacobs, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker with a new documentary, No Small Matter, @SiskelJacobs; and Elias Rosenfeld, Superstar activist, @AdvocatElias  

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On the #RADIO show this week we cover the ways that the US Senate COVID-19 relief package under consideration is  falling short on UI, nutrition, and housing, which hurts families and our economy — and what you can do to help get a bolder, more effective package through Congress: then we cover the current childcare crisis, including where there is hope and opportunity for change.  Next up we get an update on the family separation crisis created by the Trump administration and what you can do to help keep families together.  The show closes with tips and advice on how to address the social emotional needs and development of children during COVID-19
 
*Special guests include: Dr. Donna Pavetti, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, @CenterOnBudget; Lauren Hogan, National Association for the Education of Young Children, @NAEYC; Paola Luisi, Families Belong Together, @domesticworkers, @fams2gether; and Lina Acosta Sandaal, Stop Parenting Alone, @parentingrelief
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