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Savory Latino Meals Without the Meat (Recipes and time-saving tips included!)

May 25, 2011
Para estas recetas en español, haga clic aquí. ( Photos from left to right : A kale and lentil pasta dish I make regularly; Having children -- like my daughter who is peeling the kale off the stalks -- is a good way to get children to eat their veggies.) Whenever I tell people that I cook only...
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Elisa Batista

Help Spark a Food Revolution!

May 24, 2011
This week is a very exciting one for the Food Revolution; this Friday not only see’s the return of Season 2 on ABC, but it is also Jamie’s birthday! Jamie’s birthday wish this year is to spark a Food Revolution and raise enough money to train 1,000 Food Revolutionaries. To get involved with Jamie’s...
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Jamie Oliver
Health Care

Affordable Care Act Bringing Down Premium Costs

May 24, 2011
Most of us can figure out ways to cutback on our energy consumption to reduce our expenditures at the gas pump but cutting back on health care is a bit trickier. We can’t very well stop our kids from getting sick and even if we could, it wouldn’t impact our premiums – insurers would just pocket the savings. But that’s about to change.
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Say Ahhh!

A Woman’s Place…is in the Capitol

May 23, 2011
I am writing this as I pack my suitcase and laptop bag to go to Sacramento for the 15th annual Immigrant Day at the Capitol. Buzzing around me are my three daughters, ages 8, 5 and 1. They ask questions ranging from the mundane to the profound. As I look at them, its clear to me why I am heading to...
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MomsRising Politics & Policy

Color of Change Calls Out Appalling 'Psychology Today' Article

May 23, 2011
We just heard about this appalling article in Psychology Today from our friends at ColorOfChange.org. Gabriel (on their staff) gave us the go-ahead to share their email about this. Here’s what the ColorOfChange team writes: ************** Nearly 20 years after a black parent documented how hard it...
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Mary Olivella
Open Flexible Work

Social Security on the Rocks: What's at Stake for Younger Women

May 20, 2011
For many young working women, retirement security rests at the bottom of a lengthy priority list loaded with seemingly more pressing concerns. These include finding a satisfying, well-paying job, negotiating a raise and, for many, juggling family responsibilities with career advancement. Social...
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Clark Jennifer
Environmental Health Health Care

Report back: Delivering your signatures to the White House!

May 19, 2011
Good news! Today I had the opportunity to represent MomsRising at a meeting with White House officials about cancer prevention. Your signatures were delivered along with those from other organizations who are also members of the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition . We talked about how...
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Donna Norton

The Once and Future Bipartisan Support for Family Planning

May 19, 2011
Support from a few conservative Members of Congress notwithstanding, these have been largely partisan fights with progressive champions defending women’s access to family planning services from the right’s attacks. That’s why news from Maryland this morning is so welcome. There, Governor Martin O’Malley signed the Family Planning Works Act into law, which will make free Medicaid family planning services available to 33,000 more low- and moderate-income women there.
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Stephanie Drahan
Environmental Health

Flame Retardants: The Asbestos of Our Time?

May 18, 2011
Every time I travel out east to visit my parents and grandmother I always think of my grandfather. Growing up, he was a second father to me, always present and supportive in every way. I will never forget the way he delighted in playing with my son, his first great grandson. He never got to meet my...
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Elisa Batista
Open Flexible Work Realistic & Fair Wages

Wal-mart and the Supreme Court: Can the SCOTUS Women Help Achieve Fair Pay?

May 18, 2011
A couple of months ago, I wondered what would happen for about 1.5 million women when the Supreme Court got its hands on the class-action, gender-discrimination lawsuit against corporate giant Wal-Mart. That's the approximate number of plaintiffs in the case who have alleged they've been victims of...
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Joanne Bamberger

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