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Mompower comes to Seattle!

05/20/14
Tuesday was a great day for mom power! Seattle MomsRising members brought their questions, ideas, and littlest learners with them to meet with Seattle City Council Member Tim Burgess and staff to discuss the current Seattle Preschool for All proposal. And we brought the cookies! Council Member...
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Lauren Hipp
Nat'l Women's Health Week
Health Care

When Clinical Obesity Threatened My Health, I Made a Change I Never Thought Possible

05/16/14
I sat frozen as my doctor told me the truth. The cold. Hard. Truth. I was not O.K.
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Elizabeth Martin
Health Care Politics & Policy

“It Blows My Mind that I Have to Sign a Law”: Massachusetts becomes 21st State with a Law Against Shackling Pregnant Women

05/16/14
After signing a bill to outlaw the shackling of women in labor, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick told the packed room, “It blows my mind that I have to sign a law for that.”
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Rachel Roth
Nat'l Women's Health Week
Health Care

Leaning In or Falling Over?

05/16/14
I'm a mom, a stay-at-home mom, with ADD.
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Stephanie Lormand
Food!

Mom Victory! My kid ate (and loved) a veggie wrap on #FRD2014!

05/16/14
Mom Victory! My son knows it's important to eat healthy, fresh food. But it's still not easy to get him to actually eat it. That's why I'm so proud of getting not only him - but his ENTIRE CLASS OF 4-YEAR OLDS - to eat Rainbow Salad Wraps on this Food Revolution Day (#FRD2014)! Woot! Jamie Oliver's...
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Karen Showalter
Food!

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
Take Action!
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
Nat'l Women's Health Week
Health Care

Milestones: Five Years Cancer-Free, Five Years of Congressional Women's Softball

05/15/14
It was shortly after my 41st birthday, and only 6 months after a clean mammogram, that I felt a lump while doing a routine self-exam in the shower. I was familiar enough with my body to know that something felt wrong, and sure enough, my doctor confirmed it with those devastating words – I had breast cancer.
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U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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