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Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

04/09/13

I’m having a head/desk day. You know the kind; where you just want to bang your head on your desk because you’re so frustrated. Why? Because today is Equal Pay Day – the day that marks how far into 2013 women have to work to earn what men earned for the same work in 2012. And at the rate we're...

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Ruth Martin

Gun Safety

04/09/13

Over the past few months we have come together in the faith community many times to stop gun violence. We made a difference: our congregants made more than 10,000 calls to the Senate on February 4th in our Faiths Calling campaign. Since the Senate debate and vote on a gun violence prevention...

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Rachel Laser

04/09/13

Here we are again. Another Equal Pay Day to mark how far into this year that women have to work to earn what men already earned last year for the SAME work. This makes me want to bang my head on my desk in frustration. Which I will do: Once. And then it’s time to pick up my head and keep working...

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Ruth Martin

Environmental Health Health Care

04/09/13

Recent editorials in the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun underscored what YOU have been telling our Maryland legislators the past few months- we need a pesticide use reporting data base! It takes a village to pass a good bill and you all are important members of our village. Thank you for...

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Ruth Berlin

04/09/13

This blog post is also part of the National Women's Law Center Equal Pay Day Blog Carnival . (Photo on right: My hubby and I at his surprise 40th birthday party a year ago. It’s not only women who are affected by the wage gap.) Working as a campaign staffer at MomsRising.org , I have known about...

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Elisa Batista

Immigration Family Economic Security

04/09/13

Each year Equal Pay Day highlights the continued disparity in pay between men and women in the United States. In 2011 women who worked full time and year round earned only 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. That wage gap persists and is even more pronounced in the immigrant community: An...

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Ann Garcia

04/08/13

“Patience is a virtue.” Who first said that, and why? A quick Internet search points to a few “medieval poets.” Let’s leave it there—in the dark ages—and move on: to why patience is on my mind, and not in a virtuous, well-behaved way. I just spent an evening at Seattle’s Town Hall listening to five...

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Ann Hedreen

Health Care Food!

04/08/13

Whether it is television, movies, vending machines or other activities children are seduced with a plethora of junk food. With video games in the mix, the lack of movement becomes a bigger problem. Working in education for 10 years I noticed a disheartening trend regarding childhood obesity. As a...

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Yvelette Stines

Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

04/07/13

One of my preschooler’s favorite jokes: What do you get when you put lipstick on a pig? Answer: A pig. Why do I bring this up? Because right now, some members of Congress are trying to put lipstick on a pig: They’re introducing a bill called the “Working Families Flexibility Act,” a "comp time"...

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Ruth Martin

04/05/13

Despite the fact that Social Security isn’t contributing a penny to the federal budget deficit, fiscal hawks have convinced President Barack Obama that we must slash its benefits to save the country. He’s joined the sky-is-falling crew in a crazed search for targeted cuts that will shrink Social...

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