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“No Parents Should Have to Choose Their Mortgage or Utilities Over Health Care”: How Children Will Benefit from the New Health Reform Law

October 14, 2010
Children are among the biggest beneficiaries of the new health reform provisions, which include the ban on denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions and full coverage of preventive care, such as child wellness visits. MomsRising has collected a number of great blog posts on how...
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Erina Aoyama
Paid Sick Days

Too Bad Mayor Bloomberg Was Never A Working Mother

October 14, 2010
Last week, Mayor Bloomberg issued a press release advising people who get sick this season to stay home for at least 24 hours. He makes it sound so easy. Of course, Mayor Bloomberg has paid sick days. So, it’s hard for him to understand how the other half lives. The other half being the nearly 50%...
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Amy Impellizzeri
Paid Sick Days

A Race Between Philly and NYC on Paid Sick Leave?

October 13, 2010
As New York continues to waver on enacting overwhelmingly popular legislation that would guarantee working people the right to earn paid sick time, other cities are catching up fast. Consider Philadelphia, where I had the opportunity to attend an event on earned paid sick leave yesterday. Spurred...
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Amy Traub
Environmental Health Health Care

How You Can Help CA Lead the Way in Protecting the Public from Toxins!

October 13, 2010
Every October, we are inundated with information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We here at the Breast Cancer Fund [embed link: www.breastcancerfund.org ] think that it is not enough to just be aware about breast cancer. We need to start preventing this disease! Last week, we released our...
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Gretchen Lee Salter
Childcare & Early Education

Chicago Sit-in for an Elementary School Library

October 12, 2010
Sometimes it's easy to forget that I live in a world of relative privilege. No, I'm not a millionaire or getting ready to jet off to any exotic location for the holidays (though I did see some interesting "wildlife" in South Beach while attending a recent conference !). In my suburban neighborhood...
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Joanne Bamberger
Health Care

Question of the Week: Is my now-healed sports injury still going to hobble me when I try to buy health insurance?

October 11, 2010
Question of the Week: I have a “pre-existing condition” because I had a joint in my leg fixed from a sports injury. Since the repair has been made and no additional work is required, I think it is unfair that this is considered a pre-existing condition that makes me ineligible for insurance that I...
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Claire McAndrew
Health Care

Health Reform in Action: Changes in Effect Now!

October 11, 2010
As new provisions of the landmark Affordable Care Act go into effect, many Americans have questions about the law and how it will affect their families. MomsRising has mobilized a talented group of leaders, parents, activists, workers, and policy analysts (many of whom wear multiple hats) to blog...
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Erina Aoyama
Realistic & Fair Wages

Have You Heard?

October 11, 2010
Have you heard? I'm hearing people talk about women's paychecks in grocery lines, at parent gatherings, on coffee breaks, in the news, and... in the U.S. Senate. Finally! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a cloture petition on the Paycheck Fairness Act — which is Washington-DC-speak for...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Open Flexible Work

Lovin' Life, even when work life balance gets crushed for a single mom by a deadbeat dad

October 10, 2010
On a business trip to Chicago this past spring I got a new lesson in work life chaos and the crucial need for flexible working arrangements from a high school friend who is raising two boys in the shadow of a deadbeat dad scenario.
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Judy Martin
Health Care

Mothers to lead free training on Staying Safe in the Hospital – Join us in San Diego on Saturday

October 7, 2010
As a grassroots organizer for the Safe Patient Project of Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, I have the honor of collaborating with an extraordinary network of advocates, most of who endured a personal medical harm experience and had the strength to channel their...
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Daniela Nunez

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