I’ve been working to reduce children's exposures to toxic chemicals for almost ten years now. First, in a laboratory, I studied how mercury emissions from power plants were converted to the neurotoxin methyl mercury. Now, at the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), I’ve been working to shape...

This week is the 10-year anniversary of the Bush-era tax cuts for the nation’s wealthiest households. In 2012 alone, the extension of these cuts will cost taxpayers an estimated $20 billion. In stark contrast to these tax cuts to the rich are the terrible sacrifices we’re now demanding of the poor...

“My husband and I were denied a home loan last year due to my being on maternity leave. It was a tremendously frustrating experience, as I was employed and on a federally protected leave; though was told that in the eyes of the Housing discrimination against pregnant women and mothers is illegal...

In recent weeks, I've written here and here about legislation before Philadelphia City Council that would allow every worker in the city to earn paid sick days. To round things out, I am now passing along an op-ed I co-authored with Lonnie Golden, a professor of economics and labor studies at Penn...