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Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security

12/30/12

With New Year’s fast approaching, the “fiscal cliff” puts billions of dollars of critical investments for children at risk. If policy makers do nothing, millions of children could be pushed into poverty with the expiration of improvements to the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit...

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Jared Solomon

12/28/12

Two weeks after the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school, I am struggling to determine the reasons why my feelings about it are still so raw. There is no other national tragedy that has affected me so deeply. After the horror of 9/11, when I lost a college classmate who was working in the Twin...

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Allison Lefrak

12/28/12

By Marcia D. Greenberger , Co-President, National Women's Law Center As we approach the end of President Obama’s first term in office, it’s an appropriate time to look back and take stock of the impact the President has had on the federal bench, to date. Although, thanks to a determined minority in...

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Thao Nguyen

Food!

12/26/12

When I moved from the Midwest to Baltimore, MD I was excited to be in a new place and to see what the East Coast had to offer. One thing that surprised me was the lack of supermarkets and grocers available where I lived. There were only a few sprinkled throughout the city. Instead, I found a number...

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Jennifer A. White

12/21/12

Today, we were stunned and outraged to hear the National Rifle Association's (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre blame everything except guns for the tragic deaths of 20 children and eight adults in Connecticut. His main suggestion for preventing gun violence? More guns. And, on top of that, more guns near...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

12/21/12

The thing about holiday travel is that no matter how fabulous or ordinary your destination you’re probably uprooting yourself from your normal foodscape. It won’t be as convenient to plan your family’s meals as it is on daily basis. Add to that the food personalities of your family members. There...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

12/21/12

Been out shopping in the past couple of weeks? If the answer is yes, you know consumers are mobbing stores to snap up mountains of plastic soon-to-be-junk from toy stores and big boxes. Do kids really need more stuff? And what's the message we're sending? Like it or not, toys and make-believe do...

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Martha Burk

Food! Health Care

12/20/12

This year has been an exciting one for school nutrition. In January, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) finalized the first updates to school meal standards in 17 years. This fall, the changes meant healthier meals were appearing in school cafeterias around the country. The...

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Jessica Donze Black

12/20/12

Last April I wrote a blog about Facebook’s purchase of Instagram ( Stupid Fat Hobbit, You Ruins it! ). In the blog I discussed how I left Facebook in 2010, and how I joined Instagram shortly thereafter, and how I now wondered about being pulled back into the FB empire. I moved to Instagram shortly...

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Amalia Deloney

Childcare & Early Education Food!

12/19/12

Pssst…your child’s favorite cartoons on Nickelodeon aren’t as cute and innocent as they look. In fact, they’re quite guilty of teaching your child to want junk food and to pester you for these unhealthy products. They’re making your child believe that junk foods are “kids’ food” and that’s what...

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