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03/24/10

"All of my years of experience and knowledge holds no water in today's economy. I've applied to over 1000 jobs, near and far, and am competing for jobs with hundreds of people, young, old, experienced, inexperienced, etc." That's the experience of MomsRising Member, Rebecca, a single mom in...

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Sarah Francis

Environmental Health

03/24/10

MomsRising is proud to partner with Ecology Center's Healthy Stuff project in sharing results from their independent consumer product safety testing. Healthy Stuff tested a wide range of consumer products for the presence of toxic chemicals like lead, arsenic, and PVC, all of which have been...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care Food!

03/23/10

On February 24, I attended California Governor Schwarzenegger's Summit on Health, Nutrition, and Obesity: Actions for a Healthy Living, with special guest President Bill Clinton. At the Summit the Governor described his platform for fighting obesity and promoting a healthier California: Restricting...

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Ellen Wu

Environmental Health

03/23/10

Here's an inspiring example of a way to multiply your own consumer power.

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Alice Shabecoff

03/23/10

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers . This is an historical moment that I can't get out of my head so my apologies in advance for writing, yet, another piece on healthcare reform. This is an issue near and dear to my heart and one of three issues -- education and higher education spending are the other...

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Elisa Batista

03/22/10

Once in a while you get the chance to make a really big difference, and we just did! Yesterday we helped change the course of history – for the United States, and for our families. For almost 100 years, Americans have been trying to expand healthcare coverage, and last night a bill finally passed...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care

03/21/10

UPDATE: Last night health reform passed the House. Representative Loretta Sanchez voted YES. Interested in what passage of this bill means for you and your family? Here's a terrific, interactive article from the New York Times today, titled, " How The Healthcare Overhaul Could Affect You" . One big...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care

03/19/10

Every once in awhile, history sneaks up on us. In movements past, the sting of injustice couldn’t be more clear. Bold acts of violence interspersed within wide-ranging systems of injustice, made the steady march towards civil rights an obvious moral imperative in need of correction. Yet, somehow,...

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Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D.

Environmental Health Family Economic Security

03/19/10

Over the past year, Administrator Jackson has pledged that her agency is back at work defending children’s health by ending environmental injustices, but when it comes to ending mountaintop removal, the agency is stalled.

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Renee Blanchard

Health Care

03/18/10

The imminent vote on health reform is going to be incredibly close. We've got to pump up the volume to help make sure it passes. That's right: It's time to make sure our voices are heard once again by Congress that healthcare reform is critically important to our nation's families in order to...

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