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Tweetchat

05/15/14

Another week, another fabulous #FoodFri tweetchat! MomsRising is proud to team up with Fed Up, a film and social action campaign centered around sugar.

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Migdalia Rivera

Nat'l Women's Health Week

Health Care

05/15/14

Health and fitness advice from an Olympic champion in swimming? With three pre-teenage children, full-time employment, and a frequently-traveling husband, I too find it hard to make sports and fitness a priority.

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Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Nat'l Women's Health Week

Health Care

05/15/14

Moms’ health matters because their family depends on them. That’s the overwhelming sentiment received from our Facebook and Twitter followers.

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Sarah Ingersoll

Nat'l Women's Health Week

Health Care

05/15/14

Every Tuesday, I try to write something I learn or take away from raising kids with disabilities. This week, it’s a little more closer to home, in that I’m thinking about how raising my children has directly changed my life.

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Gina Badalaty

Food!

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

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

Immigration Politics & Policy

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!

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

05/12/14

At Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, we’ve been working for many years to ensure that all children have health coverage here in our state. Our latest report, Crossing into New Territory: Kids’ Health Coverage in 2014 , outlines the progress Arkansas has made in covering kids since 1997...

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Anna Strong

Blog Carnivals Health Care

05/12/14

The Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA) is a leader in building a healthy society in which all residents have convenient and affordable access to quality healthcare. An important part of our mission to promote, support and develop comprehensive, accessible and affordable community-based...

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