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07/31/14

After twenty-five years of teaching in early childhood education, I am used to the rush put on moms for “Back to School” shopping. I know that there is no need to rush it.

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Mary E. Mannix

Family Economic Security

07/30/14

Una de las realidades de hoy en día es que las mujeres toman tres cuartos de las decisiones de compras en nuestra economía, y cuando las personas no tienen dinero para gastar, nuestra economía sufre como consecuencia.

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Elyssa Schmier

Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

07/30/14

What’s going on in Texas? Jails in the state are endangering pregnant women and their fetuses, despite the state’s professed interest in “unborn babies.” In May, a woman named Nicole Guerrero filed a lawsuit against the Wichita County Jail for ignoring her when she was in labor. Locked alone in a...

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Rachel Roth

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

07/30/14

To highlight just how difficult it is to live on $7.25 – around $15,000 a year for a full-time worker – a host of advocacy groups including MomsRising and the National Employment Law Project (where I work) has issued a challenge: try it.

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Arun Ivatury

Food!

07/30/14

A WebMD/Sanford Health survey found that parents of teens find it more difficult to talk about weight with their child than talking about sex, drugs, alcohol or smoking.

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Howell Wechsler

Environmental Health Food!

07/29/14

Well, it's about time. The invisible problem of pesticide drift is on the policy radar in ways it's never been before — with changes in the wings that could protect kids and communities in very real ways. From California to the Midwest to our nation's capital, drift is now a focus of public concern...

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Kristin Schafer

Food!

07/29/14

In his engrossing new book, The Third Plate, Dan Barber observes that our present food system is disconnected: It operates in silos: vegetables here, animals there, grains somewhere else – each component part separate from the others and unhitched to any kind of culture.

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Diana Donlon

Health Care Politics & Policy

07/28/14

People are outraged over the news that the NFL is letting a player off the hook for assaulting his wife. Can you take a second to sign and share this petition?

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Nita Chaudhary

Health Care

07/28/14

Even Republicans like their Affordable Care Act plans! A recent poll by The Commonwealth Fund showed that overall, 78% of Americans who signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act are satisfied with their coverage. Even 74% of the Republicans who signed up say they are satisfied with their...

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Felicia Burnett

Food!

07/23/14

Children's sports and sports snacks seem to go hand in hand, but should they? It's a proven fact that healthy children do better in schools . Children's sports play an integral role in keeping children healthy. It fills the gap left by the closing of physical education classes . It gets children...

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