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FED UP and MomsRising

05/15/14
Three years ago, we connected over a cold email. Both of us were baffled by the same question - we’ve been covering the issues of food and diet for 30 years and we were still baffled by why the problem keeps getting worse. Why is this?”
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Katie Couric
Blog Carnivals Health Care

Medicaid & CHIP Participation Rates Show Continued Success of Efforts to Connect Kids with Coverage

05/15/14
Recently, CMS released 2012 rates of participation for children in Medicaid and CHIP. For the last few years, our friends at the Urban Institute have been calculating them.
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Karina Wagnerman
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Family Economic Security

Fired for "Leaning In?"

05/15/14
Which is it: Are we supposed to "Lean In" or not? Apparently, "leaning in" can get you FIRED when you start asking inconvenient questions!
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Ruth Martin
Food!

[Good Food Force] Protect the healthy school meal!

05/15/14
Dear Marianne, Welcome to this week's Good Food Force update! Please find updates, resources and action ideas below. 1. The Hot Line: Threats to healthy lunches, and No Big Potato! Healthy changes to school meals are under attack! We're anticipating a new pushback on the meal standards, which went...
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Karen Showalter
Immigration Politics & Policy

Immigration Reform Cannot Wait

05/14/14
Last Sunday, for the eleventh year in a row, I called my mother and wished her a “Happy Mother’s Day,” but I wasn’t able to see her. I’m one of the estimated 12 million people living in the United States without documentation. As much as I want to see my mother, going home to Honduras could mean I...
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Rosa Anon
Food!

Back Off, Mr. Big Potato Head!

05/14/14
The Big Potato Lobby is trying to throw science and nutrition research out the window and insist that certain foods be placed in the WIC food package, an important health and nutrition program for low-income pregnant women and babies. We need moms and dads to speak out and tell Congress to drop this hot potato!!
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Elyssa Schmier
Blog Carnivals Health Care

Enrollment still open for Medicaid and CHIP

05/12/14
The Children’s Dental Health Project was founded in 1997 with the principle goal of implementing the then-optional dental benefit in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). As more than a decade has passed and CDHP’s mission has grown, so too has dental coverage for children. Thanks to the...
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Meg Booth
Blog Carnivals Health Care

Healthy Kids Make Better Learners

05/12/14
The School-Based Health Alliance serves as the national voice for school-based health centers (SBHCs), and our mission is to improve the health status of children and youth by advancing and advocating for school-based health care. While our mission is focused on access to health care in school, our...
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Kyle Taylor
Environmental Health

Baby Non-Toxic Shopping Guide

05/12/14
It’s not easy for busy parents to know what the safest choices are to protect baby's health. Women's Voices for the Earth's Baby Non-Toxic Shopping Guide can help you find safer products without toxic chemicals linked to cancers, reproductive harm, and birth defects.
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Cassidy Randall
Blog Carnivals Health Care

Continuing Access for Kids: There is no end date to staying healthy

05/12/14
As mothers, we know that children need ongoing access to health insurance, ensuring that children can readily gain needed care when faced with injury or illness. Whether it’s allergy season, soccer season or flu season, children need uninterrupted access to care. Medicaid and the Children’s Health...
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Eva Marie Stahl

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