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Turned Down for a Home Loan or Apartment Because You're a Mom? Someone Just Broke the Law

June 15, 2011
"My husband and I were denied a home loan last year due to my being on maternity leave. It was a tremendously frustrating experience, as I was employed and on a federally protected leave; though I was told that in the eyes of the lender, I was unemployed." -- Olivia, California There's hardly a...
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Mary Olivella
Environmental Health

Top Six Safer Summer Beauty Tips

June 14, 2011
Tis the season for summer beauty. Warmer days mean more sunscreen applications, different makeup routines, and more showers to make up for chlorine soaked hair or sweaty days outdoors. Unfortunately, many of the products about to enter your summer beauty routines are more than trendy: They might...
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Claire Moshenberg
Health Care

Belshe Encourages Stakeholder Participation in Health Benefit Exchange

June 14, 2011
California Health Benefit Exchange Board member Kim Belshe, left, talks to members of the Having Our Say coalition. California Health Benefit Exchange Board member Kim Belshe spoke to members of the Having Our Say (HOS) coalition last week in Sacramento about the implementation of the Affordable...
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Cary Sanders
Health Care

Pregnant Women Need Health Care, Not Jail Time

June 13, 2011
By Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, Staff Attorney, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of or demand for drugs in the...
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Roger Baldwin

Food Revolution News, Recipes & Live Videos!

June 13, 2011
This week see’s another exciting one for the Food Revolution, with results coming through on our Milk Day of Action , along with our usual Food Revolution fun! This week’s twitter competwition is tomorrow night, Tuesday 14th, at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT so join @FoodRevTeam for the chance to win a signed...
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Jamie Oliver
Health Care

Helping MRMIB Prioritize Children and Families During Transition

June 10, 2011
At this critical time for California’s safety-net programs, I am honored to have been appointed by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg to serve on the state’s Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB). MRMIB oversees the Healthy Families Program, which provides low-cost health, dental,...
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Ellen Wu
Realistic & Fair Wages

The Equal Pay Act: You've Come a Long Way, Baby (But Not All the Way)

June 10, 2011
By Deborah J. Vagins, Senior Legislative Counsel, & Georgeanne Usova, Lobbyist Assistant, ACLU Washington Legislative Office In 1963, we could have only dreamed of a woman with a realistic shot at the White House, or a female Speaker of the House or Secretary of State. There were no women...
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Roger Baldwin
Environmental Health

BPA on My Mind at Home and at Work

June 9, 2011
I’ve been working to reduce children's exposures to toxic chemicals for almost ten years now. First, in a laboratory, I studied how mercury emissions from power plants were converted to the neurotoxin methyl mercury. Now, at the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), I’ve been working to shape...
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Lena Pons
Environmental Health

Clean Air for Our Kids

June 9, 2011
Our kids don’t deserve asthma. They deserve clean air. They deserve the chance to play outdoors. But kids don’t get to pick how clean their air is…and in my state, Rhode Island, where air pollution is high, more than 1 out of every 10 has asthma. The truth is we live downwind from other states...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

475,000 Women and Children could lose food aid

June 9, 2011
This week is the 10-year anniversary of the Bush-era tax cuts for the nation’s wealthiest households. In 2012 alone, the extension of these cuts will cost taxpayers an estimated $20 billion. In stark contrast to these tax cuts to the rich are the terrible sacrifices we’re now demanding of the poor...
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Roberta Heine

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