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Housing Discrimination Against Mothers is Illegal and Unacceptable: Know Your Rights!

June 7, 2011
“I can't even count the number of times [when trying to rent an apartment] that I was hung up on as soon as I mentioned we had a toddler." Christina, New York “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...
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Mary Olivella

Men Hate the Workplace They Built

June 3, 2011
Men want work-life flexibility just as much as women. So why are women still the ones carrying the message? Ah, the sweet sensation of validation. Finally, a think tank has thought what many work-life advocates have been saying for years: Men want work-life flexibility just as much as women do...
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Joanne Cleaver
Environmental Health

Jessica Alba: Why I'm joining the campaign for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

June 3, 2011
Click here to join actress Jessica Alba in asking Congress to pass the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011! By Jessica Alba, Actress and Concerned Mother As I’m pregnant with my second child, I have been thinking back to the days when my husband and I decided to start a family, nearly four years ago. Just...
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Jessica Alba
Childcare & Early Education

An ugly lesson for kids

June 3, 2011
Yesterday my family was proud to join other children and moms braving the 100 degree heat to hold a lemonade stand at the General Assembly raising money for education and other kids’ programs cut in the current budget proposal. Unfortunately, in addition to raising some much needed money for the...
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Beth Messersmith

Governor Brown Pays Surprise Visit to Strategic Growth Council

June 3, 2011
California Governor Jerry Brown pays a visit to the Strategic Growth Council. The regular meeting of California's Strategic Growth Council (SGC) took an interesting turn this week when Governor Jerry Brown decided to stop in for a visit. “What’s on the agenda?” Brown quipped when he stepped in the...
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Ellen Wu

Unemployment Among Husbands and Wives

June 2, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Does it make a difference whether it is the husband or the wife who is unemployed? Most definitely, says Heather Boushey, feminist economist extraordinaire here in Washington DC. It affects...
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Valerie Young

Today we’re a step closer to stopping housing discrimination against mothers !

June 1, 2011
Good news! The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced this afternoon at a news conference that they reached a settlement agreement with a mortgage company that denied a new mom a home loan simply because she was on maternity leave . Emma Cooper-Serber, LMSW / MPH, a NYC...
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Mary Olivella
Paid Sick Days

Paid Sick Days Can Help Make Philadelphia a High Road City of Opportunity

June 1, 2011
Last week, I wrote that when you look at the positive benefits and the low costs of Philadelphia’s proposed paid sick days legislation, it could end up paying for itself. As I wrote that, I could almost hear a collective gasp from neoclassical economists: “If it paid for itself, employers would...
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Steve Herzenberg
Open Flexible Work

Resume Advice After a Career Break: An Interview with iRelaunch

June 1, 2011
I noticed that a number of people find my blog because they are searching for information on dealing with a gap in their resume due to time out of the workforce to care for family. They land on this post, How to Explain Gap in Resume: Caring for Family or…Coma? , which tells the story of one mother...
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Kristin Maschka
Health Care

GOP Would Cut Health Insurance for 1.7 Million Kids

May 31, 2011
Having grown up in a family that could not afford health care, I know how difficult it can be to go to a doctor when you need one. That's one of the reasons I worked on health insurance reform. No person in the United States should go without care when they need it. I remember an afternoon in...
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