Health Care

September 30, 2014

“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.” ― Marianne Williamson I once spoke at a girls empowerment conference to a group of three hundred ten to thirteen-year-olds. As I was waiting to go on stage, I overheard a small...

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Renee Trudeau

Health Care

September 29, 2014

We like to say that everything is bigger here in Texas, but that’s not always such a good thing. These days we have a Texas-sized problem with providing health insurance to women of childbearing age, and that means some babies are born less healthy than they could or should be.

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care

September 23, 2014

See the original blog post at the FamiliesUSA blog by Dee Mahan . *************** Researchers from Cornell and Harvard have found that children who have health insurance through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) go further in school than children who are uninsured,...

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Dee Mahan

Health Care

September 22, 2014

If you just switched jobs, have a fluctuating income as a small business owner, or work as a contractor—you may need to report income changes if you purchased a health plan on the health insurance marketplace this last enrollment period. More info after the jump...

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Jeannina Perez

Health Care Open Flexible Work

September 15, 2014

“Are you listening to your life–what is it trying to tell you?” Renee Trudeau Stephen Cope, MSW, author and director of Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living says retreats don’t change our lives as much as they change where we stand in relationship to our lives—and our capacity to see the...

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Renee Trudeau

Raise your voice!

Health Care

September 11, 2014

I serve zucchini at least twice a month in my house. Each time it's the same story: my seven-year-old son tells me he doesn't like it (because it's a vegetable - "Yuck Mom!"). Then I remind him that he does actually like it and ask him to try it anyway because it's good for him. It takes some...

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Felicia Burnett

Family Economic Security Health Care

September 9, 2014

I have relied on Medicaid for both my daughter and I on and off since she was a toddler. Not long after graduating with my MA in Family Counseling, my daughter and I were left without health insurance, since I was no longer allowed to purchase the university's group health plan. With my first job...

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Anna

Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

September 2, 2014

A provision was added to the Affordable Care Act in 2010 requiring that employers “provide a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child...and a place, other than a bathroom...which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.” The health benefits of breastfeeding for babies and mothers is widely known. Did you know that employers benefit, too?

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Health Care

September 1, 2014

Covered California comenzó registrar pacientes el 1ero de Octubre de 2013, con el inicio de cobertura el 1ero de Enero de 2014. Éste fue un periodo emocionante, ya que las comunidades de color representan dos-tercios de los 2,7 millones individuos que podrán tener los requisitos para obtener...

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California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

Health Care

September 1, 2014

Si usted me ve hoy, usted probablemente asumirá que mi vida es tan ‘perfecta’ como puede ser humanamente posible. Tengo un gran esposo, unas hijas gemelas saludables y hermosas, apoyo constante de nuestras familias, un hogar en un vecindario seguro, y mi propio negocio. Y ¿adivine qué? Sí, es...

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