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Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

06/09/14

Newsflash: Child care is expensive . In a majority of states, the cost of child care for an infant exceeds the cost of public college tuition . That cost pinches the wallets of all families with young children in paid child care. For low-income families, it’s much more than a pinch— on average,...

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Susanna Birdsong

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

06/09/14

Early childhood education continues to receive growing support from within Pennsylvania. Through the statewide Pre-K for PA campaign, educators and community leaders are not the only ones expressing a commitment to investing in the state's youngest learners. Former Gov. Ed Rendell (D) and Former...

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Mary E. Mannix

Politics & Policy

06/08/14

Volví a Miami, Florida recientemente para visitar a mi madre por el Día de las Madres, y encontré un montón de mis viejos CDs mezclados de cuando tenía 15 años. Decidí escuchar uno y lo que oí era una combinación asombrosa de Shakira, Boys to Men, Enrique Iglesias y Savage Garden. Escucharlo me...

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Jeannina Perez

Food!

06/06/14

Note: This post was originally published on my blog, LadydeeLG. (I hope you will visit!). I'm happy to say that it's been over a week and I'm STILL drinking coffee withOUT sugar!! I took the 10 day #FedUpChallenge inspired by the team at Mom.me . I decided to take on the #FedUpChallenge, and be...

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Diana Limongi

Food!

06/05/14

Dear Friend, Welcome to this week's Good Food Force update! Please find updates, resources and action ideas below. 1. The Hot Line: #SaveSchoolLunch and WIC Update #SaveSchoolLunch : Over the last month we've been discussing the new pushback on school meals. This fight is happening through the...

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Karen Showalter

Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

06/05/14

This blog originally appeared on May 22, 2014 as part of the Religious Action Center’s blog series “Double Booked: A Conversation about Working Families in the 21st Century.” Double Booked deals with the many issues that affect working families - from paid family leave to rights for home care...

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Rachel Laser

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

06/05/14

My friend and colleague in the fight for family caregivers, Janice Lynch Schuster, recently had a conversation with her children about what may happen when she becomes older. It went like this, as Janice wrote in Fierce Urgency of Now: Family Caregivers and the Future that is Upon Us for the blog...

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Valerie Young

Childcare & Early Education

06/04/14

I am very surprised that in this day and age with the vast amount of research on this issue that we are still debating the merits of spanking. Last week on Facebook I saw a post that said something like “I was spanked as a kid and now I have a psychological condition known as respect for others”...

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Janine Murphy-Neilson, LPC

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Food!

06/04/14

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act will expand universal free school meals in high poverty schools in your state. This means that low-income children in high poverty schools will have access to a FREE healthy breakfast and lunch. This will change a child’s whole day, every day, for the better!...

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Migdalia Rivera

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Health Care

06/04/14

So close.... California legislators are nearly finished with developing the state budget. And right now most final decisions are in the hands of the few legislators on the budget conference committee. As a constituent, you have an especially powerful voice in determining whether critical health...

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