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11/15/12

Time is running out to help the March of Dimes light the White House purple on January 3, 2013 as a symbol of hope for premature babies. The White House is special to the March of Dimes because our founder was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who established our organization in 1938. To turn the...

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Beverly Robertson

Family Economic Security Health Care

11/15/12

"Is it an action scene in a James Bond movie?" No. "Is it something the road runner careens off of in a cartoon?" Nope. You can't watch the news these days without hearing about a looming "fiscal cliff" that Congress must address by the end of the year. One of the biggest items on the table: In a...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

11/15/12

This story originally appeared in the (ex)Expatriate's Kitchen blog . I pack my child's lunch every day. When it comes to food, yes, I am a helicopter mom. Not that I don't have good reason to worry . Even with the improved school meals, I am still concerned about the meat sourcing and continued...

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Beth Bader

Food!

11/15/12

I got the new menu for my oldest daughters lunch and noticed something strangely new: there were carrot sticks, cucumbers, romaine lettuce and even...oh my goodness...hummus, on the menu! I am a mom who likes to cook but doesn't love to cook and like many have little time in the morning to prepare...

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Alison Crockett

MomsVote

11/15/12

Ladies, we are having a very good year. This election, a record number of women—binders and binders full of them—ran for office, and…best of all… won . In the new Congress, we will have 20 female Senators, up from 17. We will have the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin, in Wisconsin. We will...

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Katrina Alcorn

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote

11/15/12

My home state is California, and we just successfully survived our own state version of the "fiscal cliff" when it comes to education. Here, they were called the "trigger cuts." If Proposition 30 -- essentially part of the June 30, 2012 budget passed by the legislature that needed the people's...

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Cynthia Liu

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget

11/14/12

They don’t call it the "cliff” for nothing. It’s the fiscal spot where a nation’s representatives can gather and cry doom. It’s the place -- if Washington is to be believed -- where, with a single leap into the Abyss of Sequestration, those representatives can end it all for the rest of us. In the...

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Mattea Kramer

Environmental Health

11/13/12

MomsRising is excited to offer everyone who submits a post to the Clean Air and Environmental Justice Blog Carnival the following thank you gifts: 1) Pacha's Pajamas soundtrack and eBook ($14.00 value). This family clean air conversation starter is a children's pop musical that inspires kids to be...

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Gloria Pan

11/13/12

As an immigrant rights advocate working on the A Wish for the Holidays campaign to highlight the impact of deportations and family separation on children, I've been spending a lot of time recently reaching out to children and youth around the country, encouraging them to share their thoughts with...

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Wida Amir

11/13/12

Thank heavens the campaign season is finally over. I was so done with the constant political commercials and their scary, sneering tone. “Vote for our guy, because the other guy is evil incarnate, and death and destruction will rain down from the skies if he is elected.” Yuck. My children were...

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