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09/14/11

Last week, California legislators came together across party lines (yes, you read that right!) to support a bill that would prevent a 37% budget cut to our state’s Healthy Families Program. Hooray! The Healthy Families Program provides health insurance to nearly 900,000 children in California. This...

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Ashley Boyd

Paid Sick Days Family Economic Security

09/14/11

Even though things are gridlocked in D.C. right now, we're still having victories across the country! For example, the Seattle City Council overwhelmingly passed paid sick days just this week– and MomsRising members are widely credited with helping to bring this about with their emails, calls,...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

09/14/11

I have always strived to be a compassionate person -- to be someone who puts myself in someone else’s shoes. Since becoming a new mom, I’ve found that my compassion toward others has only deepened and this is especially true of my empathy for other moms. Below are four ways that being a new mom has...

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Michelle Noehren

09/13/11

by Julie Vogtman , Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center The Census Bureau just released new data on poverty in the U.S. in 2010. Though 2010 marked the first full year of the recovery that began when the recession officially ended in June 2009, the number of Americans living in poverty...

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Thao Nguyen

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

09/13/11

Over 90% of Americans have detectable levels of bisphenol-A in their bodies, which makes BPA one of the most pervasive toxic chemicals in our modern lives . Scary stuff, considering that studies link BPA exposure to breast cancer, infertility, early onset puberty, ADHD, and obesity . You can reduce...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Open Flexible Work

09/13/11

On the list of paradoxes, not many beat flying around the world to give talks about climate change. I can justify my carbon footprint if I have to--with myself as the main moving part, we've managed to build 350.org into the first big global climate campaign, organizing what CNN has called the "...

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Bill McKibben

09/13/11

For the second session in a row, the California Legislature has unanimously passed a bill to prohibit the shackling of pregnant incarcerated women. However, uncertainty remains over whether the governor will sign the bill. Last time, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill,...

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Rachel Roth

Environmental Health

09/12/11

My husband Gus and I have been lucky. I'm 36---and therefore considered an "elderly primigravida" on my charts at my doctor's office (that's "pregnant old-timer and first-timer" in layman's terms). I've had a healthy pregnancy---so far---and we avoided the nightmarish saga of infertility that many...

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Anna Fahey

Paid Sick Days

09/12/11

When I was a restaurant critic, I always noticed that our great restaurants and chefs treated their wait staff as if they were family – and most of them do today. But I have been out to dinner when I have been served by wonderful women who just could not take the night off even though they were...

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Jean Godden

Childcare & Early Education

09/10/11

The age difference between my oldest child and youngest is ten years. The daughter who was in third grade on September 11, 2001 started her first year of college last week, and the “baby” is now at the same school, sitting in the exact same elementary classroom as her big sister did on 9/11/01. I...

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