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Coaches to Help Connect Kids to Affordable Health Coverage

This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the " Get Covered. Get in the Game initiative" which will be launched in seven pilot states across the country including: Colorado, Florida, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Ohio and Wisconsin. The initiative brings together coaches, schools, and communities to educate families with children who are eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) about the immediate availability of free and low-cost health care programs for children.

Sorry I Missed Your Anniversary! Thanks for Keeping Families Afloat.

This July marked the sixth anniversary of the nation's first state law that provides comprehensive paid family leave. Passed in 2002 and in effect since July 2004, California's paid family leave insurance program provides most workers with six weeks a year of partial pay (55% of wages up to a...

Raising Healthy Eaters

Sometimes the hardest part about getting your children to eat healthy food and fight child obesity is getting them to choose the healthy food option. Here's the behavior methods that show you the way to guide them to healthy food choices

Dispatch from Louisville: A Salute to Labor & Labor’s Legislative Champions

Last weekend and earlier this week, I was in Louisville, Kentucky talking about paid sick days and economic security with both labor leaders and state legislators who champion issues important to workers. Advocates who lead paid sick days campaigns routinely praise organized labor’s hard work on...