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09/13/12

And we’ve had a landmark 20th year! We started the year with the release of our study, Achieving Equity by Building a Bridge from Eligible to Enrolled , which put numbers to the importance of cultural and linguistic appropriate outreach by the newly established Health Benefit Exchange. We’re happy...

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Ellen Wu

09/13/12

Co-written with Katherine Ullman Like just about every other feminist on the Internet, I've read quite a bit about Marissa Mayer lately: She's the new CEO of Yahoo , she's about to have her first child , she's going to be making $59 million , she's behind some of Google's most influential...

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Joan C. Williams

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/13/12

As one of Bravo's “Top Chef Masters” and author of Lorena Garcia's New Latin Classics: Fresh Ideas for Favorite Dishes , I’m thrilled to introduce this MomsRising Blog Carnival – Making the School Day Healthier. Healthy and delicious foods are my passion so I’m very happy that kids this year will...

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Chef Lorena Garcia

Food!

09/13/12

This article originally appeared in the Examiner . School lunches have become a touchy subject recently, as everyone from parent groups to the federal government to Jamie Oliver have pushed for an overhaul. Considering more than 32 million students eat school-supplied meals, and many of them get...

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Trisha Ryan

09/13/12

There has been a parade of headlines lately about the shocking statistic that approximately 40 percent of the food in the United States is thrown away. Even allowing some room for error, this level of waste is staggering on many fronts. For starters, in 2010, 17.2 million households were classified...

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Diana Donlon

Food!

09/13/12

This article originally appeared in the Wishfit blog . School is back in session, and that means many kids are back in the lunch line. Last week I shared some fresh ideas for packed lunches , but what if your kids buy lunch? Are they happy with the lunch offerings at their school? Are you? In...

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Trisha Ryan

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/13/12

As one of Bravo's “Top Chef Masters” and author of Lorena Garcia's New Latin Classics: Fresh Ideas for Favorite Dishes , I’m thrilled to introduce this MomsRising Latino Blog Carnival -- Making the School Day Healthier. Healthy and delicious foods are my passion so I’m very happy that kids this...

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Chef Lorena Garcia

Food!

09/13/12

This post originally appeared in Presley's Pantry food blog. I don’t usually drive an hour and a half out of my way in the dead of heat to visit a high school cafeteria. That’s exactly what I did last month when I was invited to come to Arlington High School in Riverside. The Riverside school...

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Nicole Presley

Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work

09/13/12

It’s no secret that Walmart is the largest employer in the country, diligently working to create a softer image of itself to consumers, environmentalists and others. What most consumers don’t know is that Walmart contracted warehouses across the country make it a common practice to put profits over...

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Paco Fabian

Open Flexible Work

09/13/12

I am so fed up with advice from people telling women that if they just make the right personal choices at the right time in the right order then there is no problem fitting career, marriage, and kids into our lives. That's a load of crap. If anyone had been able to figure out a way to PLAN her way...

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