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Celebrating DACA’s First Anniversary

August 15, 2013
This blog post originally appeared in First Focus . Today marks the first year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an initiative introduced by the Administration last summer which provides certain DREAM Act-eligible youth with a renewable two-year reprieve of...
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Wendy Cervantes
Paid Family Leave

Lack of paid family leave makes me mad. Like this angry cat.

August 15, 2013
The fact that only 11 percent of employees in the United States are provided any kind of paid family leave by their employers makes me angry. Kind of like that angry cat in the picture. We can change this! For the first time ever, the United States Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a...
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Ruth Martin
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

To Support Breastfeeding, Paid Family and Medical Leave is Crucial

August 15, 2013
Having the time to bond with a new baby is crucial for many reasons. One reason why those first weeks after a baby is born are so vital is the importance of the breastfeeding relationship. However, for many mothers, that relationship is soon disrupted – as many as a quarter of mothers return to...
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Liz Ben-Ishai
Gun Safety

Sterilization Abuse: Not Just in Our Past

August 14, 2013
As North Carolina becomes the first state to agree to provide financial compensation to people who suffered under government-run sterilization programs, the California Legislature is finally grappling with reports of modern-day sterilization abuse in its prison system. Confronting Eugenics in the...
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Rachel Roth
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When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: Linking Women’s Economic Security and Small Business Success

August 13, 2013
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s press conference last month announcing the House Democrats Economic Agenda for Women and Families, “When Women Succeed, America Succeeds,” ended with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez’s speech highlighting the importance of the Agenda to small businesses. Congresswoman...
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Liz Ben-Ishai

Are You a Maxed Out Mom too?

August 12, 2013
I am very excited to share with you the official book trailer for “Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink.” It’s 2 minutes long. Please share it far and wide (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, your living room, or wherever you hang out). Mothers are breadwinners in two-thirds of American families, yet the...
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Katrina Alcorn
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What You May Not Expect When You’re Expecting

August 12, 2013
Co-written with Katherine Ullman. So you or your partner is pregnant. There are plenty of important decisions to consider: what will be the little one’s name? Will you share the name with friends and family or keep it a secret? What about gender? Do you want to know? Do you want others to know?...
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Joan C. Williams
Environmental Health Health Care

Secret Toxic Chemicals in Glade, Windex & Pledge

August 12, 2013
What's hiding in the fragrances of top brand-name cleaners? You have a right to know--and SC Johnson should be telling you instead of keeping toxic secrets.
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Cassidy Randall

Taco Bell: For Kids to "Live Mas", They Need to Live Healthy

August 12, 2013
Taco Bell recently announced it was dropping kids' meals at all restaurants nationwide by early 2014. This is great news for moms and dads who are tired of fast- food restaurants marketing junk food to their kids with the aid of toy giveaways. But getting rid of unhealthy meals is only the first...
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Karen Showalter
Open Flexible Work

My Journey to Bringing Babies to Work

August 11, 2013
I was never able to take more than four weeks off work after the births of my children. My husband filed for divorce a week after the birth of our third daughter. Two weeks later, I moved on my own with our children from Utah to Massachusetts, where my soon-to-be-ex-husband was living for work. In...
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Carla Moquin

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