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12/20/13

My 3-year-old’s favorite dress – the one she wants to wear every day – is from Children’s Place. With 1,123 stores, Children’s Place is one of the largest children’s clothing retailers in North America. But what’s behind the label? Today, The New York Times home page is featuring heartrending...

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Liana Foxvog

12/19/13

How stressful is your job? How much control do you and your manager have to fix it? Since my book, Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink , was published in September, I’ve given dozens of interviews with print, radio, and TV reporters about the state of working motherhood in America. Over and over...

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Katrina Alcorn

Food!

12/19/13

If you think that America’s children are still being served mystery meat for lunch at school, it’s time to take another look. Personally, I'm fed up with reports that ignore the real food revolution in school breakfast and lunch. It's as if these folks have never heard about the 2010 Healthy Hunger...

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Dayle Hayes

12/18/13

Lots of children have three parents. A boy’s mother and father might divorce, and one remarries. A girl might be raised by a single mother, a cousin, and an aunt. But everybody, without exception, has two biological parents. For the moment, at least. The United Kingdom is on the verge of permitting...

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Enola Aird

Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

12/17/13

By Alicia Gay Asia Myers, a pregnant woman expecting a baby girl in less than a month, works for an employer that forced her to make an unthinkable choice between a healthy pregnancy and her paycheck. Early in her pregnancy, Asia suffered from complications serious enough for her doctor to put her...

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Roger Baldwin

12/17/13

Does it sometimes feel like that gingerbread man is looking right at you? Winking perhaps? Suggesting how awesome he'll taste in your coffee? If you're like many of us, the holidays are a time for family and food. And we love it. But as so many of us know, they can also be a time when we let go a...

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Karen Showalter

Families & The Federal Budget

12/16/13

There are so many compelling, interesting stories published on the MomsRising blog every week. Below is a selection of posts we especially hope you didn't miss! Check them out; we'd love to hear which were your favorites in the comments below. Thanks! #RADIO this week! – The Real Feminist Nightmare...

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Connie K. Ho

Open Flexible Work

12/13/13

Last Sunday’s New York Times article “ Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers ” may focus on a small but growing sliver of couples in the privileged world of Wall Street, but there is a message in there for all working parents: stay-at-home fathers are not like stay-at-home mothers, and actually,...

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Liz O'Donnell

12/13/13

“The jail I volunteer in told me they don’t shackle, but I have stood between a corrections officer and a woman in labor” to prevent her from being restrained – this is what Marianne Bullock, childbirth educator, doula, and co-founder of the Prison Birth Project , told legislators in Massachusetts...

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Rachel Roth

Paid Sick Days Paid Family Leave

12/12/13

We need paid leave and we need it now. Today we’re taking one giant step closer to that goal. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are introducing the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (the FAMILY Act), a bill to provide up to 12 weeks of partial wage replacement to...

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