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Posted August 13th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
The Housing and Urban Development Agency is filing charges of housing discrimination against Pennsylvania property owners and managers who wouldn’t rent to a mother and her daughter. Outrageous! MomsRising applauds the action HUD is taking to investigate and correct discrimination against families seeking housing. See HUD’s press release below. And if you have experienced being [...]
Posted August 10th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
A public health approach to reducing health disparities across economic lines involves looking for “upstream solutions.” By walking upstream and understanding why people are falling in the river in the first place, we can be more effective in saving lives than by focusing all our resources on pulling the drowning people out of the river downstream. Applying this [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
Last week The New York Times profiled the story of Elizabeth Budde, a Washington State doctor who’d been approved for a home loan but then had her home loan revoked after a loan officer learned she was on maternity leave with her newborn baby. [1] “The reason we were buying the house was because we were [...]
Posted June 24th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ prestigious journal, Pediatrics, recently released a cost analysis on breastfeeding. The bottom line: The United States could save $13 billion annually if 90 percent of families were able to comply with medical recommendations to breastfeed exclusively for six months. This could also prevent over 900 infant deaths in our nation, for which [...]
Posted May 28th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
Co-authored by Elisa Batista. The conversation is everywhere — Arizona has a new immigration law that requires police officers to detain anyone who “looks like” an illegal immigrant and fails to produce proof of American citizenship. And legislators in seven other states are nowdebating similar bills as are gubernatorial candidates in several more states who [...]
Posted April 30th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
I just learned about this situation in Philadelphia where the landlord terminated a woman’s lease because she adopted a child. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has filed a lawsuit – good for them! Read about it below (which is cross posted from HUD’s blog site): Having a child is no reason to [...]
Posted January 20th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
Last week the New York Times reported that the Food and Drug Administration is now willing to look into the health hazards of Bisphenol-A (BPA). Given that BPA is present in the lining of infant formula cans, the article tells us the FDA recommends that nursing mothers continue breastfeeding for twelve months. But there’s a catch. [...]
Posted December 16th, 2008 by Mary Olivella
Like many parents, when I saw the huge front page articles in USA Today about the possible health risks related to toxics in the air around schools across the country, I immediately used the online search tool in the article to check out how my daughter’s school ranked. The result? Not so good.
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