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Help Your School Go Green!

September 30, 2010
Our nation’s schools are in trouble – and this time, it’s not the test scores. No, this time it is the toxic chemicals lurking in schools that leave children too sick to learn. Many schools around the country are literally made out of an emerging toxic plastic of concern , polyvinyl chloride (a.k.a...
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Mike Schade
Open Flexible Work

Top Companies for Working Mothers

September 30, 2010
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Your (Wo)Man in Washington welcomes guest blogger Alisa Gilbert who writes on the topics of bachelors degree . She welcomes your comments at her email Id: alisagilbert599 @ gmail.com ...
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Valerie Young

Hike & Seek

September 29, 2010
Fall is my favorite time of year. It brings back some of my best childhood memories: playing in a big pile of crunchy red and yellow leaves, feeling the crisp air on my skin on nature walks as butterflies led the way, the first smell of my carved pumpkin. I am greatly indebted to my parents, who...
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Robyn Carmichael
Environmental Health

I thanked Ken Cook for the great work!

September 29, 2010
Last week, I watched Ken Cook (president and founder of Environmental Working Group) talk about 10 Americans at UNC Chapel Hill (live talk here ) He talked about testing the blood of 10 Americans in one day for 413 toxic chemicals. The results of the tests were staggering: a total of 212 toxic...
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Judit Beres

Why is the FDA Pushing GE Salmon When You Don’t Want It?

September 28, 2010
If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s supposed to be a duck. But what if that duck contained genes injected from two other species of duck to make it grow faster than normal ducks? Is it still a duck to you, or is this getting more complicated than it should? The FDA...
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Wenonah Hauter
Open Flexible Work

Married, With Children? Not for Women in Management

September 28, 2010
The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s new glass ceiling report on women in management was just released by the Joint Economic Committee , and the news is bad. In a comparison of the years 2000 and 2007, women comprised 49% of non-managerial workers in both years, but their representation in...
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Robert Drago
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

Warning bells are ringing

September 28, 2010
I recently got an email from a blog reader who said she had been obsessively reading and re-reading my first post , and all the comments that followed it. After years of managing what sounds like a challenging career and raising young children, she said she feared she was on the verge of a nervous...
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Katrina Alcorn
Childcare & Early Education Food!

Here's our chance to make school lunches awesome (not awful)

September 28, 2010
We’ve been talking about about the sad state of school lunches for years. But now we finally have a chance to start making school lunches more nutritious and more accessible. The U.S. Senate recently passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which is an update of the Child Nutrition Act. Now, to...
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Sarah Francis
Realistic & Fair Wages

Lessons from Ledbetter: Continuing the Fight for Pay Equity

September 28, 2010
Shortly after the President took office, he welcomed Lilly Ledbetter to the White House and signed a new law bearing her name. This historic legislation sent a clear message that wage discrimination is not only bad for business, it’s illegal. This week, I had the opportunity to welcome Lilly to the...
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Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
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Musings on the Pursuit of Happiness and Work-Life Balance

September 28, 2010
LOUISVILLE, KY -- As I mentioned on my blog MotherTalkers , I was a speaker at the Coffee Party Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. Before I delve into day two of the conference, I have some leftover pics and stories from the previous night . There was a bipartisan panel in support of the Fair...
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Elisa Batista

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