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A Mother's Nightmare -- Act Now for SB 1363

April 19, 2012
This blog originally appeared on the website of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California. I am a mother of four children living in Pico Rivera, California. In my daily life, I work as an interpreter, lead a girl scout troop, and take my girls to volleyball practice, karate, and...
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Lina Roldan

#WellnessWednes: Ask an Expert featuring the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative

April 19, 2012
Welcome to the final post in our three part "Ask An Expert" series, featuring Ashley Wheeland from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative! A few weeks ago, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative hosted an informative Facebook chat with MomsRising about the Affordable Care Act. Here are a few...
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Claire Moshenberg

Health Exchanges: A New Door to Health Coverage for Families

April 18, 2012
By Ashley Wheeland, Health Policy Attorney Originally Published on the website of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) includes many reforms to our health care systems, including private market reforms. One of these reforms will open a...
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Ashley Wheeland
Health Care

The Real View of Free Formula Samples—Open Your Eyes

April 18, 2012
Whoopi Goldberg and friends on The View just threw a Molotov cocktail of ignorance into the middle of the Mommy Wars. This time it’s about whether hospitals have the right to market formula to new moms with free samples. The women of The View give a unanimous, “Yes.” But the proposed ban on...
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Melissa Bartick

April is Autism Month; New Studies Look for Causes

April 18, 2012
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director and CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org On the heels of last week’s CDC report that found higher rates of autism than ever before—now affecting 1 in 88 children and representing a 78% increase in the last 10 years— a new study published...
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Rachel Sarnoff
Environmental Health

What’s really behind the increase in autism rates.

April 18, 2012
The just-released data on autism shows a count of one in 88 children, up from a rate of one in 100 three years ago, and one in 150 five years ago. With each change, the response remains the same: Oh that’s because of better detection and broader definitions. How, then, to account for the sharp...
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Alice Shabecoff
Realistic & Fair Wages

What year is this anyway?

April 17, 2012
Junior year of high school, my best friend found out that new male hires at her job were being paid the same amount as her, even though she had been there for a year. When she told me, my reaction could eloquently be summed up as “Huh?” Her realization that she was experiencing pay discrimination...
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Claire Moshenberg
Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

Is it over already? The Debate about Women and Work Lasted Less than a Week

April 17, 2012
Cross posted with author permission from the Huffington Post . Wow. So many readers of my last blog post thought I was endorsing Rick Santorum, his policy prescriptions and all the anti-gay and anti-women statements he has made when I wrote that I’d miss him in the Presidential contest. Not at all...
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Ann O'Leary
Realistic & Fair Wages

Let’s Get Women Out of the Red

April 17, 2012
Workers are under attack and women are bearing the brunt of it when it comes to pay . Who’s to blame? Corporate-backed politicians typified by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Last week, in the dead of night, Walker signed a piece of legislation that rolls back progress on pay equity in his state,...
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Gerald W. McEntee
Realistic & Fair Wages

On Equal Pay Day, Step Up or Step Out of the Way

April 17, 2012
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics : Female high school graduates are more likely than male graduates to have taken geometry, algebra II, pre-calculus, biology, and chemistry. Females are more likely than their male classmates to participate in music or performing arts,...
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Deborah L. Frett

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