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09/10/12

An open letter from Women's Voices for the Earth to one of the biggest consumer product companies on the planet: make the obvious moral decision to remove a cancer-causing chemical from Tide ® and Tide Free & Gentle ® . Dear Mr. McDonald, We’d like to point out some serious discrepancies...

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Cassidy Randall

09/10/12

Michelle Obama and Ann Romney are prominently featured in their spouse’s presidential campaigns. Both have made prime-time speeches during the Tampa and Charlotte conventions, which were parsed in detail by the media. Did they make their husbands more likeable? Could they secure the “women’s vote”...

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Valerie Young

Childcare & Early Education

09/07/12

By Abby Lane, Fellow, National Women’s Law Center We’re back this Friday with your monthly update on the BLS jobs numbers . Other things are back too – cooler temps are back, Monday night football is back, and kids are back to school – but one thing that isn’t back are teachers . Local education...

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Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Food!

09/06/12

Kids today are the online generation, whether they are using mobile phones, laptops, PCs or playing games and connecting on social media. They are also at the epicenter of a powerful digital advertising apparatus that stealthily tracks and targets them so they can be sent interactive ads for junk...

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Joy Spencer

Food!

09/06/12

In April, I wrote a piece about the balance between personal choices and public policy in the battle to stem the deadly obesity crisis. Since that time, a lot has happened to educate and raise public awareness about junk food, regulate public consumption of unhealthy foods and beverages, and tackle...

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Marc Lamont Hill

Paid Family Leave

09/06/12

The Labor Day op-ed I co-authored with Anne-Marie Slaughter was written before I read a stupendous, and sobering, article by Erin Kelly , a sociologist at University of Minnesota, who is one of the foremost work-family researchers in the country. (All data and quotes in this article are from her...

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Joan C. Williams

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/06/12

Bargains are available in all aspects of our lives, even when it comes to the health of our children. I have figured out a way to add nutritious foods, nutrition education and additional physical activity into my children’s elementary school at no cost. At Walt Disney Elementary School in San Ramon...

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Gayla Moghannam

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/06/12

We need to start paying attention to what we are feeding our children. One out of every three children in the United States is already overweight or obese and this generation may be the first who live sicker and die younger than their parents. This is not acceptable. But there is good news. We can...

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Chef Lorena Garcia

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/06/12

You can imagine the excitement that ran through my bones when I opened my official invitation to the White House through the organization Latinos in Social Media (LATISM) . "Wow! Really? I was chosen as one of the TOP 70 LATINA BLOGGERS in the NATION!” Out of the 70 that were chosen in May, only 5...

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Nicole Presley

Food!

09/06/12

( Headshot photo : Veronica Gonzalez-Smith is pictured on far right with her sister and mother, who are also her co-authors of the cookbook Muy Bueno .) My kids have never been crazy about eating lunch in the school cafeteria and after looking at the cafeteria menu I wasn’t either. So a couple of...

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