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08/02/12

Having babies. Over 80% of U.S. women have babies by the time they’re 44 years old, and three-quarters of moms are now in the labor force, but our family economic security policies are still stuck in the dark ages. That’s right: Even though 177 other countries have some form of paid family leave...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

08/02/12

I’ve been reading a lot of parenting books on discipline lately. (Don't ask!) Across all of the methods, one piece of advice is the same – praise your child when they do the right thing. This rule doesn’t apply just to four-year-olds – we all like to get noticed and praised when we do the right...

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Ashley Boyd

08/02/12

Did you hear the news? We scored BIG last week! The National Day of Action calling on Members of Congress to sponsor the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012 was a HUGE success. MomsRising and our partners rallied over 240k people to sign letters to their U.S. House members to support the Fair Minimum...

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Monifa Bandele

Health Care Food!

08/01/12

Shade your eyes, stretch high-up on your tippy-toes, and look west… A bit farther…past your back yard… Up and over the Rocky Mountains... Past Las Vegas glimmer… Over to the massive, distant, piece of land geographically sandwiched between the Sierra Nevada Mountain range and the Pacific Ocean...

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Kristi Marsh

Health Care

08/01/12

By Ashley Mayo, Strategic Engagement Fellow at the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, being a woman just got easier. Today, a new provision of the law requiring insurers to provide women's preventive services without a copay takes effect. For a quick look at what...

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Ashley Wheeland

Health Care Blog Carnivals

08/01/12

It's almost too good to believe, but it's true! And all the better because we fought hard for it -- first through the Affordable Care Act's passage, and then when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops objected to free coverage of contraceptives through women's employer-provided health insurance...

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Cynthia Liu

07/31/12

You may be a mom, but you are most definitely a daughter. And if you aren’t yet caring for a parent or grandparent, there is a strong likelihood that you’ll be doing so at some time in the future. That’s why it’s important that all of us start paying attention to what supports are available for...

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Jodi Sturgeon

07/31/12

When my son Matthew was sickened with E. coli O157:H7 in 2002, Phil stayed by his bed and helped me to cope with watching my young child suffer through a devastating illness called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). I remember being scared because I knew that people were dying in that outbreak, and...

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Leigh Ann Winnard

07/31/12

I’m at that time in life when lots of my friends are having kids. I’m thrilled for my friends - their kids are awesome and adorable. But one thing they’re not is cheap. And if Republicans have their way, kids are about to get even more expensive. New analysis by the Tax Policy Center shows that the tax bill (H.R.8) introduced by Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) ends tax cuts for millions of hard-working families. In fact, more than one-third of all families with children and nearly three-quarters of low-income families with children would lose valuable tax benefits under Rep. Camp’s bill.

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Thao Nguyen

Paid Family Leave

07/31/12

Marissa Mayer, the new Yahoo CEO, unleashed a media firestorm when she announced that she was pregnant. Suddenly everyone had an opinion about her plan to take a few weeks of maternity leave and work throughout that time from home. It proved women could handle top jobs in Silicon Valley, some said...

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