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07/30/12

Three cheers for sanity on Capitol Hill! For the first time in 36 years, lawmakers voted last Wednesday to strengthen the national law governing toxic chemicals. If it keeps moving and becomes law, the bill will tighten the rules governing those 84,000+ substances that make their way into our homes...

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Kristin Schafer

Health Care

07/27/12

On July 29, 2012, I’m shaving my head – BALD – with an incredible group of courageous moms to fund life-saving childhood cancer research through the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. I’m shaving my head for my hero and son, Max, and to stand in solidarity with all of the incredibly courageous kids who...

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Audra Dipadova

07/26/12

My name is Sonia Ordoñez, and I am a single mother who was fired by the Hyatt hotel after standing up for my rights. This week we are launching a global boycott of Hyatt hotels, and you can help by boycotting Hyatt and voting Hyatt Worst Hotel Employer in America . My three year old daughter and I...

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Sonia Ordonez

Paid Family Leave Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days

07/26/12

"Can I email you later? I'm in labor." In "Maternity Leave? More Like a Pause," a recent article in the New York Times , new mom and consulting firm partner Carmen, recalled sending the quote above as an email while she was in the delivery room, remarking "That...was a fun email to send." I admire...

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Claire Moshenberg

07/26/12

Despite our economic woes, America’s children still managed to make gains in academic achievement and health in recent years. But with one in three children lacking parents with secure employment and poverty predicted to reach a 46-year high later this year, children’s overall well-being continues...

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Laura Speer

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

07/26/12

When I was in college during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, I assumed that by the time I had a child, all kids would be taught about HIV in school. In the past 20 years, lots of evidence shows how HIV education helps young people make healthy decisions including delaying sex and using...

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Leslie Kantor

Environmental Health

07/25/12

by Margie Kelly, Communications Manager, Healthy Child Healthy World We know a lot about how toxic chemicals hurt kids. Babies are born with more than 200 chemicals in their bodies. Rates of childhood cancer keep rising, while other types of cancer are holding steady or declining. Every ecosystem,...

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Margie Kelly

Open Flexible Work Childcare & Early Education

07/25/12

Last weekend, as I balanced spending time with my five-year-old daughter and completing numerous work-related projects, I read "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" , the cover article in The Atlantic by Anne-Marie Slaughter that is generating lots of buzz. I felt like I was reliving my own life...

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Jennifer Davis

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

07/25/12

Marissa Mayer’s appointment as Yahoo’s CEO is a double-edged sword. It is, on its face, a shot in the arm to the perception of workplace equality and at the same time a reminder of how far we have to go to reach fairness for mothers working outside the home. It is also a reminder that we need...

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Adrienne Kimmell

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

07/24/12

Marissa Mayer created a lot of buzz last week with her simultaneous announcement that she was selected as the new CEO of Yahoo and that she is expecting a baby in October. Coming on the heels of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article about “having it all” in the Atlantic last month, this story is helping...

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