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Why is Pregnancy Still a Job-Buster in the 21st Century Workplace?

June 18, 2013
By Cortelyou Kenney , National Women's Law Center Cross-posted from NWLC's blog Thirty-five years ago the Pregnancy Discrimination Act outlawed discrimination against pregnant workers. But still today, pregnant women across the country are being fired from their jobs, forced onto unpaid leave, or...
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Liz Watson
Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

Queering the Wage Gap

June 18, 2013
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, but we are still fighting for equal pay for equal work for all. Right now the wage gap is kind of like the faces on US money… only white men earn full dollars. Everyone else is left with pocket change. The graphic above shows the average wage...
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Charlie Rose

Solitary Confinement

June 17, 2013
In what feels like another lifetime… It was summer and we decided to take the kids and my mom fishing. My son wanted to bring his new bike with the training wheels. As soon as his dad took it out of the truck, he was off. Happy to have a big place to ride, he had a smile from ear to ear. A little...
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Grace Bauer

Families: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice

June 17, 2013
In 2006, the mother of a teenage daughter involved in the juvenile justice system, in Hawaii, contacted a small, non-profit in Lake Charles, Louisiana, over 4000 miles away. The mother was seeking support from someone who could understand her plight in navigating the juvenile justice system and...
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Grace Bauer
Gun Safety

We Can Do Better

June 17, 2013
Guns killed more preschoolers in one year than they did law-enforcement officers in the line of duty. Ask yourself if this is really what we as Americans meant by putting our children first? American companies manufacture enough bullets each year to fire 31 rounds into every one of our citizens...
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Marian Wright Edelman
Environmental Health

Proposed toxics law: Kids deserve better

June 17, 2013
There's a new toxics bill in town. A few weeks ago, a draft law emerged in the Senate to overhaul the dramatically outdated national rules that govern "industrial chemicals" — aka the thousands of impossible-to-pronounce ingredients in everyday products, from household cleaners to couches, water...
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Kristin Schafer
Realistic & Fair Wages

"I don't wanna wait till I'm 48 for fair pay!"

June 17, 2013
That was the mantra my almost-4-year-old-daughter chanted over and over again last week when we went to Capitol Hill to deliver a message to Congress: 50 years ago the Equal Pay Act was passed but it’s not working. Women still earn, on average 77 to the dollar for the same work – it’s time to...
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Ruth Martin
Environmental Health

Join us for #EcoTipTue on Toxin Free Summer Travel with Kids!

June 17, 2013
I'm thrilled to announce that I recently started working with MomsRising on the issue of reducing toxic chemicals in our world. I've been a member of MomsRising since it began, and since I took my first action with a tiny infant asleep on my lap. That activism spurred another birth--my blog, Non-...
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Katy Farber
Podcast

Father's Day - What Dads Need To Know Too

June 16, 2013
#RADIO - Addressing rape culture. Moving forward gun policy reform. Exploring the fact that motherhood is now a bigger predictor of wage discrimination than gender. Talking with a new dad about paternity leave. And a DIY moment: How to make the dads in your life a boo-boo kit for Father's Day to...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Paid Family Leave

Give Dad a Break

June 14, 2013
The annual June Father's day shopping binge is at its zenith. Stores are touting the latest gizmos and geegaws, and everybody loves Dad. All except corporate America, that is. Just count the number of companies giving paid leave to men with newborns. While some employers offer time off with pay to...
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Martha Burk

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