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Poison Air for the New Year

January 27, 2011
I was outraged to learn last week that some powerful politicians and lobbyists are gearing up to make it easier for polluters to poison our air. Do they really think this is a fight they can win? Mother love is fierce. All moms know one thing: having a child cracks your heart wide open. We’ll do...
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Dominique Browning
Health Care

Healthcare Question of the Week: Does healthcare reform mean seniors will suffer?

January 26, 2011
Q: I supported health care reform and was so elated when it passed, however . . . Now I hear of cuts in payments to doctors for Medicare. Many doctors refuse Medicare patients already, but with more cuts there will be no medical care for seniors. Supplement plans won't cover anything that Medicare...
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Michealle Gady
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

The Career Mystique: An Interview with family scholar Stephanie Coontz Dads and Balance

January 26, 2011
As mothers, we talk a lot about balance. It’s an elusive concept—that sort of stands for being tired and overwhelmed. But even that conversation is highly unbalanced. It’s not a full discussion, because we don’t talk about balance for fathers nearly as much. Don’t both parents deserve to find a...
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Amy Cross
Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

Sandwich Generation in a Pickle?

January 25, 2011
Re-posted from Working Mother Magazine While all working women would benefit from access to paid sick leave, the latest data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) shows that 44 million workers in the U.S. did not have access to a single paid sick day during 2010. A growing segment...
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Michelle Noehren

A Portrait of Unemployment, Foreclosure, and Family Discord

January 24, 2011
Below is the second installment of a five-part series titled Too Little to Save , in which the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) highlights a family and describes their struggles with foreclosure. A husband, a pregnant wife, and a five-year-old son: this is the Nunez family of northwestern Georgia...
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Janis Bowdler
Environmental Health

Why we need to educate consumers about the potential dangers of triclosan.

January 24, 2011
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) released polling results this week showing that 75% of moms would be “angry” if the government took antibacterial soap off the market. Wait a minute…the government is taking antibacterial soap off the market? No, of course not. But ACI may have led these moms...
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Cassidy Randall

A Gender Revolution in Economics

January 24, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Last week I saw a column in Market Watch written by Paul Farrell, about impending changes in access to wealth and power. It's a fascinating theory and I've been preoccupied by it for a week...
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Valerie Young

Getting Settled In...

January 21, 2011
Have a second? We want to deliver a short "to-do" note to Congress from YOU next week. "What!?" and "Why?" might be going through your mind right now. Well, we have a good reason: Right now Congress is starting the 112thsession, members of Congress are still getting settled in, and many are...
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Ruth Martin
Food!

Front-of-Package Labels that Market Children’s Food Products Hide Truth

January 21, 2011
When I go grocery shopping with my year-old daughter Mirabel, it’s clear that what she lacks in life experience she makes up for with a keen sense of which products were designed just for her. The cereal boxes clad in cartoon characters and soup cans outfitted with Disney princesses already attract...
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Juliet Sims
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work Health Care

Let's answer this call!

January 21, 2011
Bravo, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin! Yesterday, the nation’s top doctor had the courage to say simply and starkly that mothers who breastfeed their babies need more support. In the “ Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding ,” the Surgeon General challenged all sectors of our society to support...
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Ashley Boyd

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