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07/09/10

The secret is out: the toxic chemicals industry is designing a PR campaign for survival! Bisphenol A in baby bottles, water bottles, and food cans. Formaldehyde in furniture. Phthalates in air fresheners, soft plastics, and fragrances. The manufacturers of these chemicals are not taking the push...

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Janelle Sorensen

07/09/10

"I'm mad. And, truthfully, what I'm most mad about is that we're even here in the first place. Women are still making just 77 cents to a man's dollar. Yet we find ourselves having to prove, and prove again, that pay equity should be a priority -- and in a recession no less when the paychecks of...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

07/09/10

by Brigette Courtot , Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center So many good things are coming out of our new health reform law that it's tough to keep track of it all! In fact, the earliest benefits are now several months old, like the small business tax credit . The tax credit, which...

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Thao Nguyen

Health Care

07/09/10

As a dad, I strongly encourage parents to have a doula present at the birth, especially if it’s in the hospital.

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Dana Glazer

07/07/10

Today ends my know-it-all days. For the past few months, after the passage of the new health care reform law, friends and family members have come to me as a source of information about what the new health care reform law means to them. Sure, I didn’t have all the answers, but I had the answers at...

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Thao Nguyen

Family Economic Security

07/06/10

Congress, can you answer this question? When I heard that Congress had failed to pass the extension of unemployment insurance benefits last night, all I could think about was the question posed earlier this week from a mom in Indiana: "How will my family live now that the unemployment is going to...

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Donna Norton

07/03/10

What to wear to work? How much freedom do we really have - check out our new Washington Post " On Leadership " column.

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Sharon Meers

Environmental Health

07/03/10

Part 1 As soon as a teenage girl walks into her pediatrician’s office, he will suggest another vaccination, to be delivered through a series of shots spaced out over six months. This time the vaccine is Gardasil, intended to protect her from being infected by the human papilloma virus, HPV, which...

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Alice Shabecoff

Health Care

07/01/10

It's time again for the annual Fourth of July family picnic. Picture this: You're minding your own business eating your corn on the cob when over walks your cousin (the one who's nine months pregnant and in a very bad mood because it's much too hot). She remarks, "The country is going to hell in a...

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Donna Norton

Health Care

07/01/10

As the U.S. gears up for the 4th of July, today, July 1, is Canada Day. Many of us look with admiration to our northern neighbors for their progressive healthcare system which offers universal coverage at lower costs and won’t force a family to bankruptcy if someone gets really sick. In honor of...

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