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'New' pesticides harmful to bees & children

February 7, 2012
You'd think a pesticide based on flowers would be harmless, right? The promoters of synthetic pyrethroids — which mimic the natural pyrethrum extracted from chrysanthemums — certainly want us to think so. But once again, the latest batch of "safer" pesticides are not as harmless as we thought, and...
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Kristin Schafer
Paid Family Leave Health Care

Luck should have nothing to do with it!

February 6, 2012
While I’m at work writing to you, my husband is home taking care of our four-month-old daughter. After my three months of paid leave were up, he started his three months of paid family leave to stay home and care for our second baby like he did with our first. I know, right? We’re both lucky to...
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Ruth Martin
Realistic & Fair Wages Health Care

UPDATED: Home Care Workers Excluded from Federal Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections

February 3, 2012
There is an old adage in long term care that the best insurance against ever having to go to a nursing home is to have a daughter. In fact, about 66 percent of family caregivers are women. Today, there are 7 million elders in our nation who need long- term services and supports and that number is...
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Jodi Sturgeon
Health Care

Making Progress on Children’s Health Coverage; More Work To Do

February 2, 2012
In one of his first acts in office three years ago this week, President Obama signed the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009. Because of CHIPRA, millions of low-income children were able to keep their affordable coverage and an additional 1.2 million children...
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Michael Odeh
Health Care

Komen: Don't play politics with women's health!

February 2, 2012
There is only one picture of my grandmother and me. When I was only a baby, my 56-year-old grandmother, Augusta Francis, died from breast cancer. She was a hard-working mother of five and she and my grandfather, Henry Francis, put three of their children through college. He was a farmer and she was...
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Monifa Bandele
Open Flexible Work

Advice You Will Never Hear From a Career Counselor

February 1, 2012
Almost two years ago, I wrote my first blog post . As soon as it went live, I thought, I have quite possibly just ruined my entire life. This was about a year after I went home sick from my job and then never went back. The whole experience still felt painfully raw. I was filled with shame for...
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Katrina Alcorn
Environmental Health Health Care Food!

How to Host a Green Super Bowl Party

February 1, 2012
Super Bowl Sunday is around the corner! Keep toxic chemicals out of your Super Bowl bash by making a few simple tweaks to your game day plan. Don't worry: You don't have to lose any of those traditional (insanely delicious) football-watching-foods. Try these top 5 easy tips for greening your Super...
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Claire Moshenberg
Blog Carnivals

Dragon Mother: What it takes to raise a game changer

February 1, 2012
When I was a child, Chinese New Year was about going to see the big celebration in downtown DC, then getting Dim Sum at our favorite lavish restaurant. My brother, sister and I would read the information about the Chinese zodiac and argue over which sign was better, the Tiger or the Dragon. After...
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Suzanne Turner
Environmental Health Food!

School Lunches Get Healthier, But Pizza is Still A Vegetable

January 31, 2012
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Rachael Ray announced new nutrition standards for school lunches , the first major change in school meals in over 15 years. The program...
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Environmental Health

Toxin a Day Wrap Up

January 31, 2012
As the founder and editor of www.ctworkingmoms.com I am so proud of our blogger Dena for her very successful 12 Days of Toxins blog series. Yesterday, her series was recognized by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and we've heard from several people that they are now making their own cleaning...
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Michelle Noehren

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