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Should Getting Sick Mean I Lose My Home?

May 2, 2011
Below is the fourth installment in a five-part series, Too Little to Save , in which the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) highlights a family and describes their struggles with foreclosure. Ms. Suarez is a single mom who has a toddler and two ten-year-old twins, one boy and one girl. They live in...
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Janis Bowdler
Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

Working Parents: How Are You Doing? (Survey)

May 2, 2011
I just put together a very simple survey about working parents and stress. It takes only 3 minutes to complete. If you're a parent and you work to help support your family, here's what I'd like you to do: 1. Take the survey . 2. Share the survey (or this post) with everyone you know. 3. Come back...
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Katrina Alcorn
Environmental Health

A Mother's Day Gift

May 2, 2011
This piece was cross-posted at the Moms Clean Air Force. I was recently thinking about Mother’s Day gifts from my sons over the years. Those wonderfully awkward clay sculptures they brought home from grade school; the colored drawin gs and the poems they write. And when they got a bit older, and...
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Dominique Browning
Immigration

Federal Court Condemns Shackling, Vindicates Woman

April 28, 2011
A new federal court decision adds weight to the campaign to end the shackling of pregnant women.
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Rachel Roth
Environmental Health Health Care Food!

Cancer-free strawberries, please!

April 28, 2011
Turns out people really don't like their strawberries messed with. The recent uproar about a new cancer-causing chemical in strawberry fields started here in California. It's since gone nationwide – and if you want to help keep strawberries cancer-free, there are plenty of ways to join in . Here's...
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Kristin Schafer

The Big Grab: Federal Policymakers Tap #3.5 Billion Set Aside for Kids' Health

April 28, 2011
A few weeks ago, I went to pick up my three kids from their after-school science class only to find that one of my 8-year-old twins, Leo, had never shown up. I spent 20 panicked minutes frantically searching for him, reviewing in my head what I knew about child abduction rates (they are really,...
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Jocelyn Guyer
Environmental Health Health Care

Tired of Toxic Chemicals? We've Got a Solution.

April 28, 2011
Over this past year, we've learned more and more about the problem of toxic chemicals. In 2010, the President's Cancer Panel showed a link between exposures to toxic chemicals and rising cancer rates. (1) Six months later, new research from the Journal of Pediatrics showed that a recent rise in...
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Claire Moshenberg
Health Care

Changing the Game: What Health Care Reform Means for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans

April 27, 2011
This year’s annual LGBT Health Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Coalition for LGBT Health, was full of exciting news. The Department of Health and Human Services released a directive outlining a wide array of new and existing initiatives focused on the health of LGBT people and their...
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Jeff Krehely
Open Flexible Work

Telling the Real Story on Social Security

April 27, 2011
by Caroline Dobuzinskis In political debates and media reports, the dialog on Social Security has recently focused on budget numbers. The program is often mistakenly tied to the deficit despite the fact that by law it cannot borrow money to pay for benefits and thus cannot contribute to the deficit...
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Caroline Dobuzinskis
Environmental Health

What I Want for Mothers Day is for Our Leaders To Stand Up for Us

April 27, 2011
About a year and a half ago, I testified before a California senate committee in support of a bill that would stop mandating -- not ban! -- the use of toxic flame retardants in certain baby products. Studies have linked these toxic chemicals, also known as "halogenated flame retardants" or HFRs,...
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Elisa Batista

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