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04/03/15

This show starts with tips for you on how to use Facebook, Twitter, and email to change the world from a social media guru. In the next segment a Washington Post journalist shares some surprising insights. And then a surprise guest shares insights on breaking through partisan barriers. We close the...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Food!

04/03/15

Ever been in the store trying to buy food or snacks for your family before someone has a meltdown? That’s pretty much the scene every time I go shopping with my young kids these days. There’s a solution. More complete nutrition labels on food in stores can help us all with speedy, healthy shopping...

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Karen Showalter

Food!

04/03/15

A recent study found toxic heavy metals in over 60% of the chocolate products they tested. This is unacceptable.

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Anya Vanecek

Take Action!

Health Care

04/03/15

I was frazzled when I heard the Frog Princess wouldn't have school today. But, after posting a link to Facebook asking my friends to sign up to deliver a booklet of stories to Senator Nelson's office, the day became everything but. You see, we've been working on spreading the word to get the...

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Sili Recio

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

04/02/15

With National Women’s History Month behind us now, it’s still important to celebrate the great strides women have made over the past decades. It is equally important to remember how many women workers still don’t have the basic necessities they need to support themselves and their families. The...

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Liz Shuler

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Food!

04/02/15

Not yet an adults, but no longer children, teenagers often feel discounted during talks about healthy food. Young adults want a seat at the table and we need to make room for them. Their experiences within the school system, and the community at large, can provide insight and open a gateway toward...

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Migdalia Rivera

Realistic & Fair Wages

04/01/15

This blog post originally appeared in Activism Is Hard . Feminism: the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. Note that I did not say that feminism is the advocacy that women are better than men. That is NOT what feminism means, so all you...

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Marcella Bell

Childcare & Early Education Health Care Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

03/31/15

This post, authored by Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat , originally appeared on TalkPoverty.org . Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat discusses the results of a study published by the Women's Foundation and the policy solutions that can lift all women out of poverty. She urges lawmakers to expand their investment in...

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Alyssa Peterson

Health Care

03/31/15

I was lying in bed Sunday morning reading from author Anne Lamott's beautiful little book Small Victories. In one of her stories about parenting, she shares with a little self-deprecation, but mostly tenderness, how she doesn't bake for PTA fund raisers, is often disorganized and sometimes forgets...

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Renee Trudeau

Health Care

03/31/15

How bad do you want to feel good? Growing up with a parent who suffered from clinical depression and navigating a heaping dose of dysfunction, stress, anxiety and "not feeling enough" the first thirty years of my life, left me highly motivated to want to FEEL GOOD. The primary drive for the work I...

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Renee Trudeau