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07/01/09

Sometimes I have the same dream over and over again - I am rushing, always rushing while my child is talking to me and I can’t hear anything he is saying to me and I keep asking him to speak louder and if only he could speak louder I would be able to hear him. Then I wake up in a pool of sweat with...

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Pamela Murphy

Family Economic Security

06/30/09

On Friday, we heard a story that we felt we had to share with you. It's about Daniel's 84 year-old mom, Irene. Her bank is selling the house she has lived in for 34 years.

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Katie Bethell

Environmental Health

06/27/09

In case you missed it, Newsweek's science editor Sharon Begley wrote a story on how anyone with an agenda can find research to support that agenda. The example she used were companies who make products with the toxic chemical bisphenol A . So-called "BPAs" are found in hard plastic like baby...

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Elisa Batista

06/26/09

One of the lessons of identity politics is that success requires knowing not just what you’re for, but also what you’re against. Blacks are for racial justice and against racism. Women are for gender equity and against sexism. Moms are for ending discrimination against mothers (fair pay, flexible...

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Robert Fuller

06/25/09

Cross-posted from the Huffington Post Brenda Barnes , now CEO of Sara Lee, has gotten a lot of press because she left the corporate workforce for a decade to spend more time with her children, and recently returned to be CEO of a major company. Barnes is indeed a rare person, and women can make...

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Morra Aarons-Mele

06/24/09

I grew up in Upstate New York, but went to college in Western Massachusetts and moved to Boston thereafter. I fell in love with a city and a state so steeped in history yet so forward-thinking. I started my career in politics and advocacy here. I met my future wife, Cheryl Jacques. I gave birth to...

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Jennifer Chrisler

06/22/09

My friend and her husband are getting divorced: three small children and irreconcilable differences. He is a partner at a law firm and earns $800,000 per year. She is a stay-at-home mother. After the divorce, who will pay more for health insurance? As regressive as it may seem, my unemployed single...

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Elizabeth Cox

06/21/09

A friend recently gave birth to twins. When I visited them today, she sat feeding one baby a bottle, while dad was bathing the other baby—classically—in the kitchen sink. Does this scene surprise you? Probably not, if you’re under age twenty-nine. According to a recent study by the Families and...

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Nanette Fondas

Childcare & Early Education

06/20/09

When my daughters, now ages 22 and 25, were growing up, I knew better than to forbid them to do something. It’s the quickest way to make that forbidden activity all the more tempting. I find it interesting that Stephanie Meyer’s novel Twilight has an apple on its cover, the original forbidden fruit...

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Carmen Siering

06/19/09

Like most Americans, I'm a sitting duck. A million things could happen that would cause my family to become one of the 46 million Americans without health insurance. My husband or I could lose our jobs, one of us could get some illness that would then make us uninsurable if we changed jobs or - as...

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