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California Doctors Reject BPA Findings

July 16, 2009
UPDATE: There were some questions on my diary at Daily Kos as to the science that was presented. Research had been released by California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment . The scientists presented their evidence before the "science advisory board's...
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Elisa Batista

Fix our broken healthcare system! MomsRising members share their personal healthcare stories

July 16, 2009
The healthcare debate is top of news and tip of tongue across the nation right now--and MomsRising is working hard to make sure mothers are part of that dialogue. After all, over 80% of American women become mothers by the time they are forty-four years old. Yet frankly, all too often, the stories...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Marie Claire: Moms Giving Up Custody

July 16, 2009
Marie Claire has published an incredible 3-part profile on moms without custody that everyone should read. It includes Maria Housden, best-selling author, and Ellie Hull, a woman who decided to give up custody in order to "go back to school, get a decent career, and be a better mom." My...
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Rebekah Spicuglia

What kid has 1.4 million dollars?

July 15, 2009
Last week, the Washington Post reported that the healthcare industry is spending a record $1.4 million dollars a day (Yes, a day!) to protect their interests in health reform.[1] Whose interests aren't being protected? Our kids! While health reform holds great promise in providing more children and...
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Donna Norton
Open Flexible Work

Jack Welch: "No Such Thing As Work-Life Balance"

July 14, 2009
Former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jack Welch gave a bummer of a speech to the Society for Human Resource Management's annual conference on June 28. In it, he had some harsh words for women, ahem, mothers: "'There's no such thing as work-life balance,' Mr. Welch [said]. 'There are work-...
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Elisa Batista

Myth #1: An invisible hand in the market dictates that work must be inflexible, brutish, and long

July 14, 2009
Pamela Stone, a sociology professor and author of "Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home," debunks common myths about the workplace and provides some refreshingly pragmatic and recession-friendly advice on how to improve it.
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Yelizavetta Kofman & Astri von Arbin Ahlander

ACT NOW! Budget Cuts Would Deny 570,000 California Children Health Coverage

July 13, 2009
Proposed state budget cuts to the Healthy Families Program remain at $90 million. If this cut is included in the final budget package, an estimated 570,000 children would lose their only source of affordable health coverage, unless funding from outside sources is secured. In fact, the Managed Risk...
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Jenny Kattlove

CA Poison Control Getting Cut?!

July 10, 2009
If it weren't so scary, it'd be funny. Governor Schwarzenegger's "cuts-only" budget is so poisonous for California's children that he's even cutting funding for the Poison Control Hotline! That's right! The Governor's proposal would mean that we'll be the only state in the nation with no poison...
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Ashley Boyd
Paid Family Leave

Thinking about non-traditional maternity leaves

July 10, 2009
A recent Good Morning America story reflected something I’m hearing more of from friends: now doesn’t feel like a safe time to take a full maternity leave. As Ellen Galinsky notes in the piece “The issue for women these days is that they are increasingly important financial supporters of the family...
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Morra Aarons-Mele

Paid Sick Days MOMentum!

July 10, 2009
Did you know that a bill proposing a paid sick days law was first introduced in Congress in 2004? Since then, never, not once, did the bill even get scheduled for a Congressional Committee hearing -- one of the first big steps before a bill can become a law. Until now.
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Katie Bethell

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