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I Delivered On CHIP, Can You?

April 3, 2015
I was frazzled when I heard the Frog Princess wouldn't have school today. But, after posting a link to Facebook asking my friends to sign up to deliver a booklet of stories to Senator Nelson's office, the day became everything but. You see, we've been working on spreading the word to get the...
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Sili Recio
Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

Unions Are a Woman's Best Friend

April 2, 2015
With National Women’s History Month behind us now, it’s still important to celebrate the great strides women have made over the past decades. It is equally important to remember how many women workers still don’t have the basic necessities they need to support themselves and their families. The...
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Liz Shuler
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#FoodFri Tweetchat: Students Fight for Food Justice!

April 2, 2015
Not yet an adults, but no longer children, teenagers often feel discounted during talks about healthy food. Young adults want a seat at the table and we need to make room for them. Their experiences within the school system, and the community at large, can provide insight and open a gateway toward...
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Migdalia Rivera
Realistic & Fair Wages

Fem-i-nism

April 1, 2015
This blog post originally appeared in Activism Is Hard . Feminism: the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. Note that I did not say that feminism is the advocacy that women are better than men. That is NOT what feminism means, so all you...
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Marcella Bell
Childcare & Early Education Health Care Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

Invest in Women to Reduce Poverty

March 31, 2015
This post, authored by Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat , originally appeared on TalkPoverty.org . Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat discusses the results of a study published by the Women's Foundation and the policy solutions that can lift all women out of poverty. She urges lawmakers to expand their investment in...
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Alyssa Peterson
Health Care

What self-care is NOT

March 31, 2015
I was lying in bed Sunday morning reading from author Anne Lamott's beautiful little book Small Victories. In one of her stories about parenting, she shares with a little self-deprecation, but mostly tenderness, how she doesn't bake for PTA fund raisers, is often disorganized and sometimes forgets...
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Renee Trudeau
Health Care

Finding balance in a 24/7 world

March 31, 2015
How bad do you want to feel good? Growing up with a parent who suffered from clinical depression and navigating a heaping dose of dysfunction, stress, anxiety and "not feeling enough" the first thirty years of my life, left me highly motivated to want to FEEL GOOD. The primary drive for the work I...
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Renee Trudeau
Paid Family Leave

National Paid Family Leave: 2016 Needs a Champion

March 30, 2015
LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)--In 2016, the United States deserves a presidential candidate who will make paid family leave a priority on the campaign platform. That candidate can take over from President Barack Obama who advocated for paid family leave in this year's State of the Union speech. "Today...
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Susan Rose
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Healthcare is an LGBT equality issue.

March 30, 2015
Healthcare is an LGBT equality issue. It's not quite as sexy of an issue as marriage equality or nondiscrimination—although it does overlap—and it is just as important. People in our LGBT community are more likely to be uninsured and in 2013, 1 in 3 low- and middle-income LGBT people were uninsured...
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Felicia Burnett
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Hattiesburg Mayor DuPree and City Council members are working to decrease the number of uninsured children in Mississippi!

March 30, 2015
Great news! Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree and City Council members, Kim Bradley, Deborah Delgado, Carter Carroll, Mary Dryden, and Henry Naylor, are going the extra mile to make sure kids in Mississippi have the health coverage they need! Hattiesburg was awarded a grant through the National...
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