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Next Step on the Road to Reform: Negotiating Differences Between the House & Senate Bills

January 14, 2010
by Lisa Codispoti , Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center We are closer to adopting health reform than ever before in history. Now that the Senate passed their health reform legislation, the next step on the road to reform is for Senate and House leaders to work out differences between their...
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Thao Nguyen
Health Care Family Economic Security

UPDATED! These are our stories: Vigil for Healthcare reform

January 13, 2010
Healthcare reform is now REALLY almost at the finish line, with a vote expected this week. Hundreds of thousands of families are waiting to find out if reform will actually: - help out their family budgets, - ensure that their health coverage is both accessible and affordable, - offer strong...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
Health Care

Don't Gamble With Children's Health

January 13, 2010
For the first time in American history, adults do not believe that our nation's children will have the opportunities they had to live a happy, healthy, and prosperous life. And over the past five years, the response from our nation's leaders has been to decrease the share of our national investment...
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Bruce Lesley
Paid Family Leave

Start the New Year with the Power of One

January 13, 2010
You can make a difference in 2010 to open up opportunities for our children – and ourselves – to move as far as our talents and passions take us. Often, unnecessary obstacles seem to stand in the way, like old-fashioned and outdated styles in the workplace, make our lives more about juggling than...
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Linda Tarr-Whelan

You, Your Mother, Your Daughter

January 11, 2010
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Why do we women assign ourselves the role of family caregiver? And what do we get for it? Economist Nancy Folbre considers these questions and their possible answers, in the context of...
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Valerie Young
Open Flexible Work

It's not so complicated- communicate more, assume less

January 10, 2010
As I resolve to be a better person in 2010, I think about a poignant bit of paternal wisdom -- one I received from my dad via his holiday letter. My father, a retired shrink, is now 82 and closed out 2009 by shipping 1400 pounds of psychiatric texts to an institute in Beijing. Packing up this...
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Sharon Meers
Childcare & Early Education

Hungry children can't wait!

January 9, 2010
'I ask why they don't have any energy, and they say they haven't had enough to eat,' Jackson said. 'Then I talk to their mothers and they tell me there's no food in the house. It breaks my heart every day,' says program director Rita Jackson." Washington Post 1 in 4 children in our nation are on...
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Sarah Francis
Environmental Health

Secret Chemicals in Household Products: Another Reason for TSCA Reform

January 7, 2010
What’s in your paint, detergent, art supplies, furniture, and textiles? You probably don’t know, since there’s typically no ingredients list on the label. But, even if you wanted to know – you don’t necessarily have the right to know. Even more disturbing, the government agency in charge of...
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Janelle Sorensen

From your hips to your lips!

January 7, 2010
This morning, I was looking glumly down at the extra 5 pounds on my scale thinking... Diet? Exercise? And then it came to me. No! This January, America's families need to throw our weight around and that extra 5 pounds is going to come in handy! Right now, each Congressional Representative is...
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Donna Norton
Environmental Health

BPA Study Needs You!

January 6, 2010
Our colleagues at Breast Cancer Fund sent us this notice about an opportunity to volunteer in a study about the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). Check it out! *** Researchers at Vassar College, the Breast Cancer Fund and Silent Spring Institute are collaborating on a study to determine whether or not...
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Ariana Kelly

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