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Love Real Food Picnic

May 7, 2013
Revolution Day 2013 Alexx Stuart Food Revolution Day, while of course created by the awesome Jamie, is a symbol for so much more than one person’s mission. It’s a symbol for all the efforts, the many movements, initiatives, grants, education programs, farmers’ markets and people making a difference...
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Jamie Oliver
Childcare & Early Education

Actually, Failing Our Children Is What's Unflippingbelieveable

May 7, 2013
A few weeks ago, Melissa Harris-Perry appeared in a "Lean Forward" promotional ad for MSNBC and said: We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children: Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had...
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Bruce Lesley
Family Economic Security

What’s Wrong with Comp Time? Ask Government Workers

May 6, 2013
This week, Martha Roby (R-AL) will introduce the same discredited comp time bill that leaders in her party have been pushing for years. Misleadingly titled “The Working Families Flexibility Act,” HR 1406 would permit private sector employers to offer compensation time in lieu of overtime pay to...
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Carol Joyner

Eric Cantor’s New Plan Would Cost Workers Time, Flexibility and Money

May 3, 2013
Cross-posted from the Family Values @ Work Blog . Listen up, working moms and dads: Rep. Eric Cantor has a deal for you – more time to spend with your family! What’s not to like? Except for one hitch: You get to spend more time with your family only after you’ve been forced to spend more time at...
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Ellen Bravo

Why K-12 Superintendents Want to Spend Money on Preschool, and Why You Should Too

May 2, 2013
If you think only new parents and preschool teachers care about early education think again. A few weeks ago, a group of Washington state superintendents, principals, kindergarten teachers and parents called for bigger investments in preschool. You might think they are worried about getting enough...
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Paul Nyhan
Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

“Mothers Unite! Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life” by Jocelyn Elise Crowley

May 1, 2013
It is very loud in the second-floor meeting room of a public library in a medium-size eastern city, the noise coming from twelve toddlers, all under the age of four, running around the room. At this meeting of the local NAMC chapter, eleven group members have put their chairs in a circle in...
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Valerie Young
Environmental Health Childcare & Early Education Food!

Got Kids? Skip the Pesticides. Doctors’ orders!

April 30, 2013
If your pediatrician recommends eating more fruits and vegetables, what they really mean is to eat organic fruits and vegetables. Last fall the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) published a report on pesticides that can be summed up in just one sentence: “Children’s exposures to pesticides...
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Diana Donlon
Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

Single Mothers, Double Standard

April 30, 2013
A lot of press about single mothers seemed to surface recently. I’m not sure why. It’s on my radio (NPR, Tell Me More ) and in my morning paper ( The Difference Between Feeling Like a Single Mom and Being One , WashPost, 4/18,2013). Whatever it used to mean, as an identifier “single mother” it is...
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Valerie Young

A visit to a White House potty can equal political change?

April 29, 2013
"Our data show families in financial trouble are working hard, playing by the rules -- and the game is stacked against them."-Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi, The Two Income Trap . How is the "game" stacked against families in this country? One of the major ways is the lack of affordable, high-...
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Sarah Francis
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Useless Baggage

April 28, 2013
They’ve hit a new low. Citing significant concerns about long lines at airports and flight delays caused by the furlough of air-traffic controllers, Congress is allowing the Federal Aviation Administration to override strict sequestration rules and re-direct funds within its budget. And they did so...
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