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What's $1.00 minus .78 cents?

April 28, 2009
What's $1.00 minus .78 cents? It's the difference between your salary and the salary of your male counterparts. If you're a woman of color, you can subtract at least an additional 10 cents, and for single mothers you can take away even more.[1] That's right: Just sixty cents to a man's dollar. Seem fair?
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Dionna Humphrey

Hot off the Press: State Pay Gap Information

April 27, 2009
Tomorrow, Equal Pay Day, marks the day in 2009 when the average woman’s wages will finally catch up with those paid to the average man in 2008. The day serves as an important reminder of the persistent wage gap and the urgent need to take action to ensure that women can receive equal pay for equal work.
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Melanie Ross-Levin

Swine flu? Whoops, forgot to provide paid sick days.

April 27, 2009
The news over the weekend was scary -- outbreaks of a potentially pandemic flu virus, called the "swine flu" are being reported all over the world, including in the U.S. As of this morning there have been only 20 confirmed cases of swine flu in the U.S., and none of them have been fatal.
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Katie Bethell
Childcare & Early Education

Ho Hos, Twinkies: Can we be healthier than children today?

April 24, 2009
Twinkies, Ho Hos, and Fritos! Given how many times my friends and I ate these goodies growing up, it is truly shocking to learn that today children ages 6-11 are four times more likely to be obese than children were a generation ago. [1] Four! What's going on!?
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Donna Norton

Part-time Breadwinners in the New Economy

April 24, 2009
Despite shrinking budgets and dire economic forecasts, at least four Republican governors are planning to turn away a portion of the federal stimulus funds. Why? Because these funds would require them to extend unemployment insurance benefits to part-time workers who have been laid off in their states.
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Dina Bakst

Ask Questions and Get More Involved in Your Health Care!

April 24, 2009
A new series of national public service advertisements designed to encourage consumers to get involved in their health care by knowing and asking appropriate questions when visiting their doctors or other clinicians was launched today by the U.S.
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Fran Drescher

Lack of Sick Leave Legislation Is Getting Old, and So Are Your Parents

April 23, 2009
Until recently, many of us twentysomethings believed that we were invincible. Alas, in these tough economic times, some of us have succumbed-- gracefully, no doubt-- to that catchy "last one hired, first one fired" refrain. Some of our smugness may be gone, but at least we still have our dashing good looks and our health, right?
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Yelizavetta Kofman & Astri von Arbin Ahlander

New EEOC Guidance on Caregiver Discrimination

April 22, 2009
My word of the day is "irony." I was supposed to attend the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hearing about updated guidance on caregiver discrimination in the workplace to live blog it for MomsRising. Then my nine-year-old daughter got sick and was home from school, so I couldn't attend.
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Joanne Bamberger
Families & The Federal Budget

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

April 16, 2009
Click here to read the whole post from Your (Wo)man in Washington. Written by MOTHERS Guest Blogger, Kelly Coyle DiNorcia
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Valerie Young
Environmental Health Health Care

Autism Linked to Schools Built Near Toxic Waste Sites

April 16, 2009
I still can’t get over that there are so few and no federal law preventing the building of schools on or near sources of pollution no matter how many times I say it out loud or write it down.
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Renee Blanchard

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