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Once You Work from Home, There's No Going Back

April 23, 2014
Yesterday was one of those moments, in which I felt my life come full circle. Almost 11 years ago, I left a reporting job in San Francisco to be home with my newborn son…and to be on the lookout for a job that I could do from home.
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Elisa Batista
Politics & Policy

via Ebony: The Coolest Black Family in America, No. 40

April 23, 2014
Congratulations to MomsRising.org Senior Campaign Director Monifa Bandele and her husband Lumumba Bandele on being named one of Ebony's "Coolest Black Families in America"!
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Environmental Health

On Earth Day: Help Get Toxic Chemicals Out of Children’s Products

April 22, 2014
One of my favorite quotes relating to environmental health is this: First-environment.png It's true. One thing every human being has in common is that we all grew in our mother's bodies. Our mother's womb is the place we first existed and we relied on her (and her body) for nourishment and safety...
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Michelle Noehren
Food!

Not a joke - this actually happens

April 22, 2014
Can you believe this? There's even junk food marketing in our schools. It's enough to have to deal with junk food marketing pretty much everywhere else. But it certainly shouldn't be reading, writing, and junk food ads in schools! Help us get junk food marketing out of our schools: http://action...
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Monifa Bandele
Childcare & Early Education Health Care

Sex Education 2.0

April 22, 2014
By Leslie Kantor, Vice President of Education, Planned Parenthood Federation of America If your teen is anything like mine, it can be nearly impossible to get him away from his phone! Knowing that it’s such an integral part of their lives, and that teens want to get information on their phones from...
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Leslie Kantor
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Health Care

Did this mom have to die?

April 22, 2014
The answer is no. Charlene Dill, a Florida mom of three, died on March 21st while working one of three part-time jobs—and her passing could have been prevented if the Florida Legislature had simply acted in time.
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Jeannina Perez
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Food!

No More Junk Ads!

April 21, 2014
What the what!? There is too much junk food marketing in our schools. It's enough to have to deal with junk food marketing pretty much everywhere else. But it certainly shouldn't be reading, writing, and junk food marketing in every hall of our public schools! Join us to get standards for junk food...
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Monifa Bandele
Family Economic Security Health Care

Exciting New Developments for Domestic Violence Survivors Who Need Help Paying for Health Insurance

April 21, 2014
Thanks to recent IRS guidance —and an extended deadline (through May 30!) to sign-up for health insurance—domestic violence survivors who are living apart from an abusive spouse can now access subsidies to help them afford the cost of health insurance. Until now, unless a married couple was legally...
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Susanna Birdsong
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Health Care

Our kids need to talk about mental health

April 21, 2014
Finding ways for our kids to talk about mental illness and mental health is really important. I live near Washington DC and had to read last week about a local high school with 6 suicides in the past two years. Two of the kids were 15 years old. Imagining the pain of the parents of these kids...
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Mary Jacksteit
Childcare & Early Education

The Story of Play vs Academics

April 21, 2014
Historically, the approved approach to early childhood education in the US has, for decades, swung between support for whole child development/ play and focus on cognitive development of the child / academics.
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Leah Kalish, MA

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