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Don't Let Toxic Toys Grinch Your Holiday!

December 2, 2011
With Sonya Lunder There may be 12 days of Christmas and eight days of Hannukah, but EWG has boiled the shopping hullabaloo down to the number five: five ways to detox your holiday shopping. And, no, our list does not include a golden ring. (We're not keen on jewelry for kids.) Finding great gifts...
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Lisa Frack

Ouch!

December 2, 2011
Moms and dads are working hard to make this a joyous holiday season and year. Every cent counts when it comes to the basics, like putting food on the table and buying winter clothes and shoes for growing kids. Unfortunately, our budgets are possibly about to get even tighter. Ouch! If Congress...
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Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators

December 2, 2011
It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop. Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong. For the larger part of human history, for...
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Nick Hanauer

School Lunch – Pizza And Potato Politics

December 1, 2011
The Food Revolution has recently been reporting on the disappointing news that Congress has overruled some of the new school lunch standards recommended earlier in the year by the USDA. Lobbied heavily by the food industry, Congress changed the rules at the last minute to keep salty, highly...
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Jamie Oliver

On World AIDS Day, Remember Women's Health

December 1, 2011
Joyce has 11 children. Mary says this casually, as if it’s commonplace. And in her experience as a midwife in Uganda, it is. For women in her community, contraception is largely out of reach. Employment is scarce, so families make ends meet by selling crops from their small gardens. They cannot...
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Elisha Dunn-Georgiou

#HERvotes Carnival: Women Vs. the Bishops

December 1, 2011
Editor's note: This post is part of the HERVotes Coalition , which is comprised of women’s organizations representing millions, to counter the attacks on women’s economic and health security. The top priorities of HERvotes are to educate and engage more women to use their voices and their votes to...
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Kim Gandy
Health Care

We Listen. We Care. We Act.

November 30, 2011
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and the theme of this year’s observance is “We Listen. We Care.” As I wrote in my last post, Compassion & Choices listens to those facing life’s end, and our response is guided by our principles for patient-centered care . The third key...
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Barbara Coombs Lee

One Community of Women and Men: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

November 30, 2011
by Amanda Lo The Woodrow Wilson Center and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) brought together a panel of four male leaders to discuss the possible roles men can play in combating gender-based violence. The event, Male Leaders Speak: Critical Strategies for Combatting Gender...
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Caroline Dobuzinskis
Health Care

Fuzzy Math: Treasury Department says kids don't count when determining whether family insurance is affordable?

November 30, 2011
Since when is 14,000 no different than 5,000? When the U.S. Treasury Department estimates the affordability of a family's health insurance. If it goes uncorrected, their fuzzy math may deny affordable health coverage to 270,000 Californians--122,000 of whom are children. While premiums continue to...
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Childcare & Early Education

Child Care is Unskilled Labor?

November 30, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Kelly Coyle DiNorcia is the author of this post. Her bio is here with another piece she wrote several weeks ago. In the car the other day, I was listening to NPR. Brian Lehrer was...
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