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What You Drink Impacts Your Health! Make Each Glass Count. #FoodFri

January 15, 2016
Our bodies are composed of 50-65% of water. It's necessary to ensure our bodies optimal level. Our bodies wouldn't survive without it. As a result, water, and what you drink impacts your health, often in unexpected ways. Each sip is an opportunity to improve your health – or derail your hard work...
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Migdalia Rivera
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Chicago prosecutor blocked justice for a year. Tell her to resign!

January 15, 2016
No child should fall victim to violence at the hands of those sworn to protect them. Last week, Chicago government officials finally released the graphic video of Police Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times . After a year of sitting on concrete video evidence...
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How is the state of our antibiotics in 2016?

January 15, 2016
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Thomas Frieden lists among their greatest concerns for the coming year, “Find and stop outbreaks of drug-resistant organisms rapidly and protect antibiotics by greatly improving their rational use among both humans and feed animals."...
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Anya Vanecek
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Can the Power of ONEsie Rock the Vote? YES!

January 15, 2016
You might not have been watching or really keeping close tabs, but Tuesday night, our MomsRising State of the Union BINGO card was filled as President Obama spoke about our top policy priorities during his speech including: #EqualPay #Childcare #Healthcare #PaidLeave BINGO Tw440.jpg #RaiseTheWage #...
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Agents nabbing 4-year-olds?! That's not who we are.

January 15, 2016
A small child, just four-years old, was sleeping soundly over the New Year's weekend when he was abruptly woken up by feet pounding across the floor and screaming in the house. Then his worst nightmare came true: he was taken away by strangers . A nightmare, right? Never in America? Wrong. This...
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Elisa Batista
Politics & Policy

Keeping Children Healthy, In School, and Learning

January 15, 2016
Brandon, a six-year-old in the Houston Independent School District, had two working parents until his father was laid off. Brandon lost his health insurance when his father lost his job. Brandon’s mother quickly scrambled to try to enroll her son who has asthma in new coverage, but met some...
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Marian Wright Edelman
Health Care

When Companies Help Making Life Easier for Breastfeeding Moms

January 14, 2016
Frequent travel is part of my job. When still breastfeeding, I often flew to work with my breast pump and storage bags; flew home with my breast milk in coolers. During that 30 months, my dear pump and coolers have been to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Columbus, Austin, Taipei, and other cities with me...
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To-wen Tseng
Health Care

A response to Wendy Williams on breastfeeding, Alyssa Milano

January 14, 2016
"I know you would never bring a fellow woman and mother, who represents everything beautiful and miraculous about being a woman and mother, on to your show to attempt to drag her down on national television. Breasts are not ‘fun bags’."
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Vanessa Simmons
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Play #SOTU BINGO online for the 2016 State of the Union Address!

January 12, 2016
Let's make watching the State of the Union fun! Play #SOTU BINGO with us to help track whether or not the issues of greatest concern to women, moms, and families are covered in the speech. And you can keep an eye out for those fun moments, too-- there are squares for jokes, for who's standing and...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
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Turning 50

January 12, 2016
“Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.” ― Katrina Kenison, Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment I was elated last week to turn 50. My husband makes fun of me. He says I'm...
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