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01/26/12

President Barack Obama greets Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., as he arrives on the floor of the House Chamber to deliver the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) It was beautiful to see Representative...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care

01/26/12

Cross posted with permission from the National Physicians Alliance blog . I attended a health policy conference last week where the buzz was women . The question on everyone’s mind was: Why aren’t American women angrier that every last one of the Republican candidates for president has threatened...

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Jean Silver-Isenstadt, MD, PhD

Paid Family Leave

01/26/12

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org My sister Americans: The state of our union is strong. Electing women to fully 51% of public offices has ushered in a new era in our great experiment in democracy. Legislators now put the...

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Valerie Young

Health Care Childcare & Early Education

01/26/12

CPEHN began its Equity and the ACA webinar series earlier today. We were very fortunate to have Peter Lee, Executive Director of the California Health Benefit Exchange, as our first presenter. The event, Equity and the ACA: Establishing the California Health Benefit Exchange , featured an...

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Ellen Wu

01/25/12

By Anita Youngkin , Director of Human Resources, National Women's Law Center Over the years I’ve worked with some leaders/employees who suggested, some more strongly, that we base employment related decisions such as hiring, promotion, benefits, terminations, etc. on an employee’s health. One such...

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Thao Nguyen

01/25/12

Let’s hope so. And let’s hope political leaders and candidates are listening. In purple states and congressional districts across the nation, population growth and redistricting have strengthened our community’s electoral clout, making Latinos one of this year’s most critical swing constituencies...

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Lorena Garcia

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days

01/25/12

Great news! MomsRising got invited to tweet at the White House during tonight's State of the Union speech by the President! And I'll be there representing us. We'll be keeping our ears open for the issues that matter every day to families, like health care coverage, unemployment insurance, fair pay...

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Monifa Bandele

01/24/12

Photo by Flickr user mathoov This morning, the film The Help was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. The movie depicts African-American domestic workers who undertake great risks to stand up for their rights in 1960's pre-civil rights Mississippi. For domestic workers around the...

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Anna Cecilia Blackshaw

Environmental Health Food!

01/24/12

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World When is a salmon not a salmon? It sounds ridiculous, but that’s one of the most important issues in the food world, where the gloves are off in the fight about genetically engineered foods. Genetically engineered or...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

01/24/12

When I first started writing about toxic chemicals, a funny thing would happen. Every few weeks, after devouring a new study or Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user j l t article, I would race through my apartment, bagging up the series of surprisingly toxic products that lived in each room. At the...

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