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Double Booked: Lessons When Life Throws You Curveballs

June 5, 2014
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
Food!

[Good Food Force] Latest on #SaveSchoolLunch

June 5, 2014
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
Environmental Health Food!

Making Climate Smart Choices for Your Family

June 5, 2014
June 5th is World Environment Day. It’s like Earth Day, celebrated here in the U.S., but for the whole wide World! Run by the United Nation Environment Program (or UNEP) it was established in 1972 by the U.N. General Assembly. In honor of World Environment Day 2014, Center for Food Safety’s Cool...
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Diana Donlon
Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

Family Caregivers, the Future, and Now

June 5, 2014
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

Let's Put The Spanking Issue To Bed

June 4, 2014
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!

#FoodFri Tweetchat: Community Eligibilty for Free School Breakfast and Lunch

June 4, 2014
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

Tell CA Lawmakers to Protect Children's Health

June 4, 2014
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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Ashley Boyd
sugary drinks, soda, new york, nyc,
Food!

Taking a Stance on NYC’s Sugary Drink Portion Cap

June 4, 2014
The big day has finally arrived for everyone involved in the case over New York City’s policy which limits serving sizes for sugary drinks, and which I wrote about last year . Today, the Court of Appeals in New York (which is, confusingly, the state’s Supreme Court) hears arguments over the...
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Manel Kappagoda
Politics & Policy

MamásConPoder.org: A Dream in the Making

June 3, 2014
In May of 2006 I co-founded MomsRising with a mission of creating a multicultural movement of mothers – and of everyone who has ever had a mother! – to advance family economic security and to end discrimination against mothers. Since then, MomsRising has grown to a million members nationwide, including members in every state in our nation, who according to an analysis we commissioned, mirror the U.S. Census in terms of race and ethnicity.
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Health Care

An Unfortunate, But Extremely Important Fact About Cancer

June 3, 2014
Cancer is a brutal disease, not only physically but also financially. Eleven percent of all cancer patients cannot afford food and basic necessities due to treatment costs, and nearly one in four people with cancer will exhaust all savings as a result of treatment costs. This includes those with...
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Mike Smith

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