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10/02/12

Dear Romney/Ryan Campaign, Recently, while appearing on "Fox News Sunday," vice presidential candidate and Congressman Paul Ryan declined, yet again, to explain the specifics of the Romney/Ryan tax plan. The claim is that Romney/Ryan tax reform will be "revenue neutral," because the tax cuts they...

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Kelly Singleton Dalton

Paid Sick Days

10/01/12

This week, workers all across the country will be tweeting that question to candidates for office at all levels, asking them to support this basic workplace standard or explain why they will not. At a time when more than 40 million hardworking Americans can't earn any paid sick time to use when...

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Debra L. Ness

10/01/12

With school supply shopping for three daughters at three different schools safely behind us, there’s one last item I’m actually excited about. It isn’t on a single school supply list and doesn’t have a power cord, but it’s essential for 21st Century learning - which is why I wanted to share this...

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Homa Tavangar

09/29/12

Now that roughly half the paid workforce is female, pregnancy issues surface regularly at work. You may have thought that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (“PDA”), passed in 1978, would have settled all this already. You’d be wrong. First of all, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that 62...

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Valerie Young

Food!

09/28/12

My NYSHEPA colleagues and I worked hard for years to get menu labeling laws passed locally in New York. Over 60 percent of our state is now covered by menu labeling ordinances. We also worked hard to get a federal menu labeling law passed in 2010, so that all consumers would see calories posted, on...

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Nancy Huehnergarth

09/27/12

Here's a fundamental truth: As rising moms, we must never leave other mothers behind. My sheer commitment to make sure no mother lacked the support she needed if she chose to breastfeed led me to find my life's purpose. In 2007, I created a non-profit organization, Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding...

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Kiddada Green

09/27/12

Great news! Remember the credit card fiasco which unintentionally prevented stay-at-home parents from getting credit cards? (I wish I didn't!) Last week in his testimony before Congress, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray indicated that the CFPB would soon issue...

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Ashley Boyd

MomsVote

09/27/12

The votes of unmarried women can determine the outcome of this election. The gender gap is real. Since 1980 a higher percentage of women than men have been voting for a given candidate, and they have tended to vote in higher percentages for Democrats. But that’s not the whole story. There is even a...

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Governor Madeleine Kunin

09/27/12

My friend and I were talking recently about what we would consider to be the best kid age. Now, I have a 6, 2, and 1-year-old so I’ve been through many of the early childhood stages at least once. And yet, I’m still at a loss for what I’d consider my favorite. Let’s do a little recap, shall we?

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CT Working Moms

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09/26/12

My mother tells me that our family is distantly related, through her father's side, to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, brothers famous for collecting and publishing fairytales that Disney later made even more famous. One of their lesser-known stories has been on my mind lately, mainly because I think it's...

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Kelly Singleton Dalton