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Biggest Budget Cuts in History: The Impact on Latinos

April 19, 2011
Last Friday, after nearly shutting down the government, Congressional leaders agreed to a short-term budget deal that will cut $38 billion in spending for the last 6 months of this fiscal year. The spending cuts are the largest in American history and will likely have a disproportionate impact on...
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Wendy Carrillo
Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security

Tax Day Question: Can I Make Enough to Pay for Childcare?

April 18, 2011
When our daughter was born, my husband had just started his second year at a law firm and I had just been laid off from a part-time job. We sat down together to decide whether I should look for a new job or not. The question we asked ourselves was, “Could I make enough to pay for childcare?” If not...
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Kristin Maschka

Congress Helps Small Business by Repealing 1099 Requirement in New Health Care Law

April 15, 2011
by John Arensmeyer, Founder and CEO: Small Business Majority For months it seemed the new 1099 reporting rules in the health care law were destined to bounce from one chamber of Congress to the other without lawmakers finding a solution to the requirement that would mire small businesses in...
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John Arensmeyer
Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care

How hooked am I? Thoughts about my own Screen-Free Week

April 15, 2011
So my daughter-in-law stopped by the office yesterday to pick up a Screen-Free Week Organizer’s Kit. National Screen-Free Week, April 18-24, is hosted by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which I direct. She, her husband, and the two best little girls in the world—okay, in my world—are...
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Susan Linn

McDonald’s: Taxing America for 56 years

April 15, 2011
“April 15” fills many Americans with anxiety as tax returns become due (though this year Uncle Sam has given us until April 18th). I recently remembered that April 15 has another grim association: the opening, 56 years ago, of Ray Kroc’s first McDonald’s franchise in Des Plaines, IL. (Now is as...
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Mike Jacobson
Food!

Food Revolution- No Sugary Milk!

April 13, 2011
We hope you watched the premiere of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution last night on ABC and saw Jamie with his pink slime and school bus full of sugar. If you missed it, make sure you check it out on abc.com or hulu.com because we know when you see it, you will want to act. And we've got just the...
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Jamie Oliver
Childcare & Early Education

Your Baby Can’t Really Read (and doesn’t need to)

April 13, 2011
Your baby can't really read. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood files FTC complaint against Your Baby Can Read for false and deceptive marketing.
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Susan Linn

An Open Letter to President Obama About the Importance of the Prevention and Public Health Fund

April 13, 2011
Dear Mr. President: I write to strongly urge you to stand firm in the face of attempts to eliminate or reduce the Prevention and Public Health Fund created by the Affordable Care Act. I share your commitment to improving health care for all Americans and I concur with your belief that prevention is...
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Robert Ross, MD

A Partial Fix for Closing the Wage Gap: End Segregation in the Labor Market

April 13, 2011
by Barbara Gault So, the wage gap is still going strong, even though women have surpassed men in terms of number of higher degrees received. Women are now more likely than men to get bachelors’ degrees, master’s degrees, and Ph.D.’s. Is it just a matter of needing time to catch up? According to...
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Caroline Dobuzinskis
Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

PFAW urges you to contact Congress for Equal Pay

April 13, 2011
Equal pay in America needed to be put back on track after the devastating Ledbetter ruling, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act answered that call – but it wasn’t the last word. The Paycheck Fairness Act would move us even further forward by providing the tools necessary to enforce equity in the...
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Jen Herrick

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