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03/21/11

It’s hard to keep up with what’s happening with healthcare reform these days. The new law is complicated. The debate is heated. And entrepreneurs are busy running their businesses, making it hard to stay on top of it all. We’re here to shine some light on the situation. The fact is that the Patient...

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John Arensmeyer

Open Flexible Work

03/21/11

In celebration of women's history month, I am hosting a live chat on my blog, MotherTalkers , on Wednesday, March 30, at 9 a.m. PT/ 12 p.m. ET. We will be speaking with Ellen Moran, chief of Staff to Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke. Prior to being appointed to the position on April 23, 2009, Ellen...

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Elisa Batista

03/19/11

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Work, guilt, stress. Why does this afflict women more than men? One study says it's because women are more likely to be the family caregiver. They absorb the stress of those around them, and...

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Valerie Young

03/18/11

Is it that men tend to engage in reckless behavior while women are more cautious in the face of risk? A new poll shows that women in the U.S. are much less inclined than men to build new nuclear facilities in the country in the wake of the current Japanese crisis. Why would someone build six...

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Robert Drago

03/18/11

My daughter was born in the spring of 2008 about ten weeks ahead of schedule. My pregnancy progressed normally until suddenly it didn’t. She weighed a little less than three pounds at birth and spent the first six weeks of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). My husband and I felt...

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Sara Frank

03/17/11

Very soon Congress will decide on a budget that could make painful, dangerous cuts to services for children. While Congress calls this spending "discretionary," it's actually very mandatory for the many families still struggling from the recession. We're talking about the important stuff: child...

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Roberta Heine

Environmental Health

03/17/11

Our Waterkeepers are on the front lines of the BP oil disaster. They are the fishermen, the community members, the people of the Gulf coast who were here before the oil and will be here after all the attention goes away. The oil is not gone. The Gulf coast needs your help.

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Renee Blanchard

03/17/11

What would you do if you learned that two weeks from now a man repeatedly accused of aggressive sexual misconduct may decide whether women have the power to confront people who discriminate against them? On March 29th, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Wal-Mart v. Dukes , the largest civil...

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Erica Payne

03/16/11

Below is the third installment of a five-part series, Too Little to Save , in which the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) highlights a family and describes their struggle with foreclosure. Mr. and Mrs. Navarro live with their 34-year-old daughter, a 16-year-old grandson, and an eight-year-old...

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Janis Bowdler

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

03/15/11

The Huffington Post recently named the growth of workplace flexibility at Fortune 500 companies as one of the top stories of the last decade . That's no surprise if you look at corporate data. A recent survey of CEOs found that the #1 investment challenge facing business in the next decade is "...

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Kathleen Christensen