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Posted August 12th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women’s Law Center This Saturday, August 14, is the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act. It was President Franklin Roosevelt who signed the bill into law, but it was Frances Perkins, the first woman in the Cabinet, who made it happen. [...]
Posted July 27th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
By Stephanie Drahan, Outreach Associate, National Women’s Law Center As we like to repeat, in March, an historic health care reform law passed! In September, many of the provisions will start going into effect, including one of the most popular: the “under 26” or dependent coverage provision. This provision allows young adults, who are under [...]
Posted July 9th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Brigette Courtot, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women’s Law Center So many good things are coming out of our new health reform law that it’s tough to keep track of it all! In fact, the earliest benefits are now several months old, like the small business tax credit. The tax credit, which works as an [...]
Posted July 7th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
Today ends my know-it-all days. For the past few months, after the passage of the new health care reform law, friends and family members have come to me as a source of information about what the new health care reform law means to them. Sure, I didn’t have all the answers, but I had the [...]
Posted May 13th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Marcia Greenberger, Co-President, National Women’s Law Center This week, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S Supreme Court. As we prepare for the Senate hearing on the nomination of this exceptionally qualified candidate, it is important to ask ourselves what difference the Supreme Court makes in the lives of women. Click [...]
Posted April 23rd, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
Some things are wrong. Some things are heinous. And then there is Wellpoint. Yesterday, Reuters released an article about Wellpoint’s profit making practice of targeting women with breast cancer. Reducing the lives and well-being of women to a math problem, one of the insurance companies with the worst records of putting people before profit has [...]
Posted April 7th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
April 20th will mark Equal Pay Day—the point in 2010 when the average woman’s wages finally catch up with what the average man earned in 2009. And for the third year in a row, we’re asking bloggers and tweeters to raise their voices in support of fair pay for women by posting about this crucial [...]
Posted March 29th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Kelli Garcia, Fellow, National Women’s Law Center When I was breastfeeding my daughter, I was lucky enough to have a comfortable private space at work to express breast milk and supervisors who understood the necessity of taking breaks. Now, thanks to the recently passed health care reform bill, more working mothers will have similar [...]
Posted March 24th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Jill Morrison, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center [The opinions expressed in this blog are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or positions of MomsRising.org. -Eds.] The National Women’s Law Center is an organization that supports abortion rights, so we’ve considered health reform a bittersweet success. The bill that was [...]
Posted January 20th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
By Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center There is a lot of Wednesday morning quarterbacking about the reasons for, and impact of, yesterday’s election in Massachusetts. As it relates to health reform, I think that more than a few people are getting it wrong. Regarding those who say that the election was a [...]
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