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Cleopatra Isn’t the Only Queen of Denial

November 24, 2009
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog While you’re lying there, semi-conscious, a human petri dish of contagion, consider this: There’s nothing like a pandemic to highlight the holes in a nation’s public health policy. I am committed to getting women, family careworkers, and paid careworkers the...
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Valerie Young

What’s a woman to do?

November 23, 2009
Health care for women is in the news these days. But what does it all mean? Having just researched for my new book what different decisions emerge when 30% women are at the table, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if Congress were made up of 30% women, instead of 17%. But more on...
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Linda Tarr-Whelan
Environmental Health Health Care Food!

The Death of BPA?

November 23, 2009
At MomsRising, we've been working for years to keep kids safe from toxic Bisphenol-A (BPA) in food containers and bottles. We've generated tens of thousands of letters to Congress and state legislatures, and sent pages of petition signatures to manufacturers. We've made progress -- but we still...
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Ariana Kelly
Food!

Weekly Round Up

November 22, 2009
We’ve been very busy over at S.T.O.P. due to the Food Safety Modernization Act that just passed through the Senate HELP Committee this week. A lot of the stories and information for this week’s round-up pertain to the bill and people supporting it. You can receive these updates on food safety, plus...
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Donna Rosenbaum
Environmental Health

Where the mop hits the classroom floor

November 21, 2009
My usual approach to grassroots activism is to focus on making laws better: paid family leave, toxics, breastfeeding, you get the picture. Pretty much the usual issues that rightfully rile up today’s moms in the U.S. (that Moms Rising has thankfully plunked in the center of the proverbial “kitchen...
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Lisa Frack
Health Care

Join us on Mon., 11/23 -- Stand Strong for Inclusive Health Reform (SF)

November 20, 2009
Join us on Mon., 11/23 -- Stand Strong for Inclusive Health Reform (SF) Communities of color from across California are gathering at the health reform table because we are part of this country. Back in Washington, DC, people like Rep. Joe Wilson represent America’s worst. On Monday, November 23, in...
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EunSook Lee
Health Care

Pin Congress Down on Facebook!

November 20, 2009
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives approved their health reform bill by a razor-thin margin. Now, opponents of health reform (i.e., highly-paid insurance industry lobbyists) are working to make sure that comprehensive health reform is stopped in the Senate. It's time to remind...
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Ashley Boyd

U.S. Should Ratify U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of the Child

November 20, 2009
Twenty years ago today, leading nations of the world put aside conflicting interests and cultural differences to unite behind a common purpose -- the acknowledgment of the fundamental rights of the world's most important and most vulnerable population, our children. Indeed, the United Nations'...
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Bruce Lesley

Men and women at work: Can we talk? (Fortune)

November 20, 2009
Do men resent powerful women? One of the most intriguing statistics in “A Woman’s Nation,” the recently released survey by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress, is this: 69% of women think men resent women who have more power than they do. Only 49% of men agree. Who knows who’s right...
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Sharon Meers

Survey Finds Families are Cutting Back Spending to Pay Health Care Expenses; More Concerned about Family Pocketbook than Federal Purse

November 18, 2009
Families still reeling from the recession, feeling pessimistic about the future, and many of them struggling to cut back spending in order to cover health expenses – that is the portrait painted by the recent survey CCF conducted with Lake Research Partners. This is worrisome news for the fragile...
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