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Texas PTA Champions Safe School Siting

March 5, 2010
The Texas PTA passed a resolution demanding safe school siting policies throughout the state at its annual convention this February. This isn’t the first time PTA has shown leadership on this issue. In Fall of 2009, Alabama PTA passed a similar policy when a railroad company proposed building a...
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Renee Blanchard
Environmental Health

Top 10 Toxic Products You Don't Need

March 4, 2010
It's become so common in our culture to assume we need things - a lot of things. Over-consumption is not only a strain on our bank accounts and environment, it can also be harmful to our health. Whether there's a warning label or not (usually not), many of the things we buy have associated health...
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Janelle Sorensen
Childcare & Early Education

March Forth Today!

March 4, 2010
"My husband and I have to work opposite shifts because child care is unaffordable. He works from 6am to 2:30pm, and I have to meet my husband at his job to drop off our son so that I can be to work by 3:00pm. I miss out on putting my son to bed ." - Kristina, MomsRising Member Unfortunately,...
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Sarah Francis
Open Flexible Work

When you work on a vacation, is it really a vacation?

March 3, 2010
I recently went with my family on a wonderful trip to the Mayan Riviera, a beach community about 1 hour south of Cancun. A great adventure trip with snorkeling, kayaking, cave explorations and jungle ziplines. It was a perfect week except for one challenge: my blackberry. The red light was blinking...
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Sharon Meers
Health Care Open Flexible Work

Pick One...

March 3, 2010
So I have been pondering... which option would you choose? Enter Parenthood and: ♦ stop working/stay home and recieve a stipend from your employer or a govt. subsidy ♦ continue working and have childcare that is government owned and operated ♦ continue working and have childcare that is privatized...
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Janna Waldher

Association for Research on Mothering is Closing

March 3, 2010
I am a mother. I am a feminist. Despite not currently being enrolled at a university, I consider myself an academic and a researcher. I love the Association for Research on Mothering . I love what it stands for. I love its books. I love its journal. I love the fact that it brings thought leadership...
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Annie
Health Care

What If Health Reform Efforts Were to Fail?

March 3, 2010
if Congress and the Administration are unable to find a way to follow-through on health reform this time around, only time will tell how this missed opportunity would impact all of us, our children and our grandchildren. Let’s hope they are able to rise to the challenge so future generations won’t look back on this moment in history and think to themselves how much better life would be “if only …”
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Say Ahhh!
Paid Family Leave

Calling All Humans: Who Pays for us to Propagate?

March 1, 2010
Women now comprise about half the US workforce, according to a major story in the December 30 issue of the Economist . In other words, half our workforce bears all our children. Anyone who wants a child of one's own must recognize that somewhere, a woman will bear that child and will likely nurse...
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Melissa Bartick

Weekly Round Up

February 26, 2010
It’s been a crazy week here at S.T.O.P. --Safe Tables Our Priority! I have been getting ready to head out to Washington, D.C. with a group of victims and family members who have gotten ill from from FDA-regulated products. While a lot has been going on here, there has also been plenty going on in...
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Donna Rosenbaum

15 million U.S. kids are left alone.

February 26, 2010
Every afternoon 15 million U.S. children, more than a ¼ of our kids, are left alone after school . This huge and heartbreaking number isn't because of parent neglect, it reflects a simple fact: Afterschool programs are unavailable or too expensive for millions of families across this country. In...
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Sarah Francis

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