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What Does Obama’s Health Reform Mean for You?

March 24, 2010
New America Media, Q&A with Ellen Wu, Aaron Glantz, Posted: Mar 24, 2010 // Editor’s Note: The health reform legislation signed yesterday by President Obama is a “really big win for communities of color,” according to Ellen Wu, MPH, executive director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network...
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Health Reform: A Victory for Reproductive Justice

March 24, 2010
by Jill Morrison , Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center [The opinions expressed in this blog are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or positions of MomsRising.org. -Eds.] The National Women's Law Center is an organization that supports abortion rights, so we’ve...
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Thao Nguyen
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Working Moms on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

March 24, 2010
My friend Jane has a problem. She works full-time for a government agency in California and has two little girls in preschool. Jane is really good at her job. Jane is losing her mind.
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The New Poor

March 24, 2010
"All of my years of experience and knowledge holds no water in today's economy. I've applied to over 1000 jobs, near and far, and am competing for jobs with hundreds of people, young, old, experienced, inexperienced, etc." That's the experience of MomsRising Member, Rebecca, a single mom in...
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Environmental Health

Consumer Products: Find Out What's "Healthy Stuff!"

March 24, 2010
MomsRising is proud to partner with Ecology Center's Healthy Stuff project in sharing results from their independent consumer product safety testing. Healthy Stuff tested a wide range of consumer products for the presence of toxic chemicals like lead, arsenic, and PVC, all of which have been...
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Health Care Food!

Health, Nutrition, and Obesity: Actions for Healthy Living

March 23, 2010
On February 24, I attended California Governor Schwarzenegger's Summit on Health, Nutrition, and Obesity: Actions for a Healthy Living, with special guest President Bill Clinton. At the Summit the Governor described his platform for fighting obesity and promoting a healthier California: Restricting...
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Environmental Health

Compounded Green Consumer Power

March 23, 2010
Here's an inspiring example of a way to multiply your own consumer power.
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Thoughts on Health Care

March 23, 2010
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers . This is an historical moment that I can't get out of my head so my apologies in advance for writing, yet, another piece on healthcare reform. This is an issue near and dear to my heart and one of three issues -- education and higher education spending are the other...
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Elisa Batista

A MOMumental Step Forward - Expanding Health Coverage & Making History Together

March 22, 2010
Once in a while you get the chance to make a really big difference, and we just did! Yesterday we helped change the course of history – for the United States, and for our families. For almost 100 years, Americans have been trying to expand healthcare coverage, and last night a bill finally passed...
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Health Care

UPDATED: Waffles shouldn't be on the menu today: Loretta Sanchez needs to stand up for families on healthcare now

March 21, 2010
UPDATE: Last night health reform passed the House. Representative Loretta Sanchez voted YES. Interested in what passage of this bill means for you and your family? Here's a terrific, interactive article from the New York Times today, titled, " How The Healthcare Overhaul Could Affect You" . One big...
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