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On Facebook? Got Your Vote On Yet?

October 30, 2010
Can you believe it's nearly November already? And that Election Day is this coming Tuesday? Time flies. It seems like summer just ended, but now we're entering into the final stretch of the election season. Believe or not, many folks are expected to forget that Tuesday is Election Day. So, we need...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

¿Por qué apoyo el DREAM Act?

October 29, 2010
Mis sueños desde que mis hijos estaban en de cuna fue que ellos tuvieran la oportunidad de, a través de la educación, descubrir sus talentos para ser de servicio a la humanidad. Así fue, ahora ellos son hombres de negocios que contribuyen a la sociedad con empleos y servicios para ayudar a crecer...
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Luz Villafana
Immigration Childcare & Early Education

Why I Support the DREAM Act

October 29, 2010
My dreams for my children since they were in the womb have been that they would receive a good education and use their talents to be of service to humanity. So it came to be. They are now businessmen contributing to society with jobs and services that help grow our economy. They are husbands and...
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Luz Villafana
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Majority of Voters Support Workplace Flexibility, Job Quality and Family Support Policies

October 29, 2010
by Robert Drago and Jeffrey Hayes New data collected for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) by Precision Opinion finds widespread support across party lines, gender, race and ethnicity for policies that will assist working families and protect workers’ rights, especially for low...
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Robert Drago

A Parent's Nightmare

October 29, 2010
By Sara Mullen, Associate Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Mort and Alex Rodriguez, of New Castle, Penn., thought the most difficult thing facing them when they arrived home from the hospital with their newborn daughter Isabella would be the sleepless nights. Instead, they were faced with...
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Roger Baldwin

I'm voting Tuesday for fair pay, because 50 years is too long to wait.

October 29, 2010
My 16-month-old daughter just started using the potty chair (I know, right!?!?). Luckily my friends, family, and co-workers are charitable people who indulge my proud parent banter and even say things like “Your daughter will be running the country before you know it!” While I pondered what the...
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Ruth Martin
Environmental Health

A mom's pitch for going to the polls

October 28, 2010
As a working mom, I've learned the value of setting priorities, and the importance of thinking about how today's decisions affect the future. That's why I'll be voting on Tuesday , and I'm pestering my family, friends & neighbors to do the same. The outcome of this year's national elections...
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Kristin Schafer

Health Reform Question of the Week: My Child Has a Developmental Disorder

October 28, 2010
Q: My 16 year-old son has autism. He currently receives survivor benefits from Social Security. These will end when he's 18; however, his autism won't. Will health reform provide any services or support for our autistic children as they become adults? A: Yes, your son and other young adults with...
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Elaine Saly
Childcare & Early Education Health Care

ELECTION 2010: Governor Schwarzenegger's Legacy--Successful “welfare to work” program to ineffective “work to welfare program”

October 28, 2010
The lives of low-income working mothers and children are hanging in the balance with California Governor’s economically irresponsible and morally reprehensible line-item veto to eliminate the Stage 3 child care program . Despite having a bi-partisan “hand shake deal” that would have protected child...
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Mary Ignatius
Health Care

Really, IRS? Agency doesn't recognize breastfeeding as form of preventive medicine

October 28, 2010
In my year-plus of writing for the Scope blog at Stanford's School of Medicine, and in my numerous years of covering medical and health issues before that, few things have enraged me as much as something I encountered in yesterday's New York Times . But David Kocieniewski, if you're reading, it's...
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Michelle Brandt

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