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05/17/19

Latino families face big health inequities, but policies and practices are emerging to create more affordable housing, reliable public transit, and better access to culturally relevant green spaces to improve health equity.

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Rosalie Aguilar

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Childcare & Early Education Health Care

05/17/19

GOOD NEWS (AND ACTION!): Happy Birthday Head Start! Instead of balloons and cake to celebrate though, we thought it would be more fitting to help guarantee that millions of children and families continue to benefit from the educational and developmental bright start and the pathway to economic...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Food!

05/17/19

1 out of every 5 children in North Carolina struggles with hunger. Schools are key to providing healthy free or reduced price breakfast and lunch to these children; for some students, school meals are the only nutritious meals they will eat that day. One child even shared with his teacher how much...

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Jessica Burroughs

Health Care

05/16/19

6 months ago, if you’d asked me whether I’d be purchasing my 8 year-old daughter an iPhone and an Apple Watch, I would have given you the stink eye. Now she has both, as well as an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor (CGM). Why? Because she was diagnosed last fall with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D).

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Nate White

Health Care Maternal Justice Paid Family Leave

05/15/19

B y: Laura Vricella, MD I sat on the edge of her hospital bed. Mary had arrived just 48 hours ago, tears streaming, and with agonized screams delivered her 24-week infant son on the ambulance gurney. There was not even time for her to change into a hospital gown. She was in shock that she was no...

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Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

05/15/19

I love birthdays -- it’s a chance to celebrate life and mark the start of another trip around the sun. And this week marks the 54th birthday of one of our country’s most successful early learning programs: Head Start! Happy Birthday Head Start! Instead of balloons and cake to celebrate though, we...

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Lauren Hipp

Breastfeeding

05/15/19

I have a story about persistence. In 2013, a self-describe “ largest Chinese-language newspaper serving North America ” published a controversial article. Titled “ Breastfeeding photos embarrass Chinese-American to death ,” the piece cited anonymous resources, labeled breastfeeding photos as “R-...

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To-wen Tseng

13 bags of expressed breastmilk on a black background. Photo courtesy of Shannon O'Hara Photography

Breastfeeding Health Care Maternal Justice Military Families Open Flexible Work

05/14/19

We can't believe this is still happening. Renowned photographer and Navy spouse Shannon O'Hara is no stranger to managing travel while lactating. But yesterday, Delta Airlines violated their own policy which states "Delta fully supports a woman’s right to breastfeed on board Delta and Delta...

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Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC

Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

05/14/19

The United States has the worst maternal death rates of any developed country, with Black women dying at 3-4 times the rates of white women, this rate remains unchanged when accounting for income, education and economic status. Maternal death rates for women overall in the U.S. doubled in the past...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

05/13/19

Period products are NOT a “luxury” item, yet the federal government (and many states) treat them like they are -- and that has a lot of negative repercussions in terms of cost, accessibility, and women’s health. In full truth, when we need these products, they are a necessity, and can be quite...

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