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01/15/13

Have 10 seconds to spare? Today, moms are at the Danbury, CT, Walmart--just minutes away from Sandy Hook Elementary--urging Walmart to keep its promise to stop selling assault weapons . And these moms need a little telephone back up, which you can provide from the comfort of your home or office...

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Gloria Pan

Open Flexible Work

01/15/13

By Emily Martin and Liz Watson , National Women’s Law Center Cross-posted from NWLC’s blog, Womenstake . Peggy Young was a UPS truck driver. When employees at her jobsite needed changes to their job duties because they had a disability, or an on-the-job injury, or even a D.U.I. conviction that...

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Liz Watson

Environmental Health

01/15/13

I’ve been on the couch for a week battling bronchitis ( Shout out to paid sick days! ). Requisites for voice-less, groggy couch life? Equal parts ginger tea and beauty blogs. Wicked winter sickness demands guilty pleasures, and beauty blogs are mine. Beauty writers and editors exist in a magical...

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Claire Moshenberg

01/15/13

Tea Party and MoveOn activists joining voices to reinstate Glass-Steagall? That's not far-fetched... this is common ground. I admit that I had butterflies in my stomach last week when I thought about co-hosting a Living Room Conversation about crony capitalism with my friend Mark Meckler, who is a...

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Joan Blades

Childcare & Early Education Health Care Food!

01/14/13

I vividly remember once overhearing my then-six-year-old son’s friend asking how he could get six-pack abs. I was shocked that these young boys were so concerned with their appearance and so aware of what the media was pushing as the ideal male body. Of even more concern, a strong desire to look...

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Leslie Kantor

Immigration

01/14/13

Immigration reform will be a top legislative priority this year, and it won’t be some vague policy or philosophical change that we’re asking for. The coming battle to change our immigration policy is personal, and we fight it every day to protect our mothers, fathers, children, and family members...

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Tramonte Lynn

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote

01/12/13

On December 30, 2012, President Obama said he doubted arming school police with guns will prevent future school shootings , but then January 11, 2013's EdWeek hints that he may yield to local law enforcement officers and communities if it has "bipartisan" support. While President Barack Obama said...

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Cynthia Liu

Health Care

01/09/13

Great news! Governor Susana Martinez just announced that New Mexico will expand Medicaid coverage, an option made available under the Affordable Care Act. This means that 170,000 more people will be able to receive health coverage in New Mexico! This is a significant step forward for New Mexicans'...

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Yoo Jane

Health Care

01/09/13

A big change in public policy could bring mothers and their new babies much closer from now on. As of January 1, a provision of the Affordable Care Act, the health reform legislation passed by Congress in 2010, now requires that health insurers cover the cost of breast pumps and lactation services...

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Valerie Young

01/08/13

Walmart has banned music with explicit lyrics , but continues to sell assault weapons like those used in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Ridiculous. Walmart carries a full range of assault weaponry that has recently included the Bushmaster AR-15 , which was used in the Sandy Hook Elementary...

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Gloria Pan