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UPDATEDx2! MA Blog-a-thon: Paid sick days are good for families and businesses!

November 11, 2011
Updated 11/14/2011, 11/15/2011, 11/17/2011: We're constantly updating this blog-a-thon with new posts. Scroll down to see our latest posts, including the perspective of a small business owner. And please leave a comment; we'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks! *** Let’s face it. Children share...
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Monifa Bandele

Guest Blogger: Barb Kalbach sharing her experiences of the Payday Industry

November 11, 2011
My name is Barb Kalbach, I am a fourth-generation family farmer and nurse from rural Iowa and a longtime member of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI). Last week I called the offices of Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan to tell him to stop financing payday lenders. I talked to a young...
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Monica Trevino
Food!

Food Day 2011 a Huge Success

November 11, 2011
In case you haven’t already heard the news, Food Day 2011 was a huge success! With over 2300 events in all 50 states, we were thrilled that so many organizers joined the movement for "real food" across the country on October 24. Mark your calendars for Food Day 2012, which will again take place on...
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Mike Jacobson

Can Life-Long Angst Heal in One Session?

November 11, 2011
Can deep trauma or life-long angst heal quickly, in just a few psychotherapy sessions, or even one session? Yes, according to Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D., a proponent of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), and co-author, with David Malan, of Lives Transformed: A Revolutionary Method of...
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Dora Wang, M.D.
Environmental Health

Hey EPA - Ignore skewed corporate science on harmful weedkiller

November 11, 2011
For over a year, we at PAN have been watching EPA’s long-overdue review of atrazine , a common herbicide that's been linked to birth defects , hormone disruption and cancer. You may have heard about this chemical - it's the one that scientists have found can turn male frogs into females at...
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Kristin Schafer
Paid Family Leave

Increasing the Odds – For Every Baby

November 10, 2011
My third daughter had a 92% chance of never being conceived. When she was around four years old she heard a friend of mine mention our little surprise, and then asked me: “Mommy, why does she say I’m an accident?” Never wanting her to think this about herself, I stopped anyone from saying anything...
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Homa Tavangar
Immigration

A Wish for the Holidays

November 9, 2011
Do you have a wish for this holiday season? I do. I wish that all families can stay together. That’s why I’m participating in A Wish for the Holidays, a campaign to gather 5,000 letters from kids asking our nation’s leaders to ensure that families stay together. For me, holidays all boil down to...
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Chris Harley

Lead-Based Paint and Discrimination Against Families With Children

November 9, 2011
HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity and the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control will soon issue an updated notice dealing with the nexus of lead-based paint and familial status discrimination, and I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight these often connected issues...
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Arlene Halfon
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

Boys “In Crisis” and Biological Imperatives

November 9, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Kelly Coyle DiNorcia uses her degrees in neuroscience and education to out-maneuver two small children, care for an astonishing variety of animals, and run an ice hockey organization with...
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Valerie Young
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Too Small to Fail

November 9, 2011
Parents are accompanying their children to public protests taking place around the nation. Children are welcome there. Oh were it so in every area of public life. Children are welcomed as important members of the community with child safe zones, play areas, and in one case, even a stroller brigade...
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Lisa Malul

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