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You're Invited: Women's Health Townhall at the White House

June 4, 2012
Got questions about what the health care law means for women? We've got answers! I'll be at the White House this Thursday, June 7, from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. ET for an interactive Women's Health Townhall. Please join us online! You can submit questions by visiting us on Facebook and leaving your...
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Thao Nguyen

Our Super Tuesday

June 4, 2012
In the biggest day of congressional and state legislative primary voting in this election cycle, voters in 6 states go to the polls Tuesday to choose candidates for the general election in November. And here's the big news from The 2012 Project , the national, nonpartisan campaign of Rutgers'...
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Stacy Mason

Paycheck Fairness: For the Next Generation, For Our Nation

June 4, 2012
When Annie Bolgiano was growing up, her mother, a forest firefighter, told her daughter she could become anything she wanted. Then Annie went to college and learned another lesson : You can go into whatever profession you want, but you are statistically unlikely to make a salary equal to your male...
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Liz Shuler

What Kind of Mother Are YOU?

June 3, 2012
Sarah C. over at Mamapedia Voices is wondering why we hear so much about the alleged raging debate between “working mothers” on the one hand and “SAHMs” on the other. In her experience, women with children don’t fall into tidy little groups. A mother home during the day could still have one or more...
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Valerie Young

I am not worth less.

June 1, 2012
Recently, MomsRising sent an email out about the issue of Equal Pay in the workplace and I responded with my experience. To my surprise, I was contacted a couple weeks ago with a request for more information, which led to the biggest surprise and honor of all. I was asked by the National Women’s...
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AnnMarie Duchon

HERvotes Blog Carnival: It’s Time to Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act!

May 31, 2012
MomsRising is pleased to share the HERvotes blog carnival about the importance of the Paycheck Fairness Act! By Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women’s Law Center For this 14th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re blogging about equal pay and the need for...
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Ruth Martin
Childcare & Early Education

What do President Barack Obama, Senator Olympia Snowe and Oprah Winfrey have in common?

May 30, 2012
Like 1 of 11 people in the United States, they spent some part of their childhood being raised by their grandparents or other relatives. This practice, called kinship care, has grown over the last decade. Last week, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released a KIDS COUNT policy report, Stepping up for...
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Laura Speer
Health Care

Should Doctors Learn to Grieve?

May 30, 2012
Why is it so difficult for doctors to confront the truth when a patient is dying, and almost impossible for most to talk about it openly with the patient and loved ones? Last week I shared a hunch. A journalist asked me the question, “Why do doctors find these conversations so hard?” I said I could...
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Barbara Coombs Lee
Health Care

The Religious Right’s Assault on Palliative Care

May 25, 2012
Anti-choice forces are taking aim at end-of-life care . They’re after people at the end of a long decline who exercise their right to stop life-prolonging technology or treatment. Their tactic is to tie the hands of doctors attending those patients, when palliative treatment might ease the patient’...
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Barbara Coombs Lee
Environmental Health

Our Moms Tell EPA in Person How Kids Need Clean Air

May 25, 2012
Yesterday, MomsRising brought some of our moms and kids to the public hearing about proposed standards for carbon pollution at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. We were part of a huge coalition effort by public health, environmental and civil liberties organizations to express...
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Gloria Pan

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