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Author: Jacqui Silvani

Jacqui Silvani is a Navy veteran, mother of three and elementary school teacher from Newfields, New Hampshire. She is an activist involved with MomsRising.
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How One Medical Emergency—and Our National Lack of Paid Leave—Put My Family in Crisis

Jacqui Silvani

I was driving home from work in June of 2015 when I received the kind of phone call no parent ever wants to get.

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