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10/23/14

Teaching Gardens were designed by the American Heart Association to encourage children. Participating children are fascinated by the gardening process! Unbeknowst to them, they are learning healthy nutrition & learning through school based gardening to connect with healthy foods that help to...

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Migdalia Rivera

Environmental Health

10/23/14

Parents across the country are stocking up on this year’s hottest costumes for their little ghouls, goblins, and princesses, but some costumes may contain hidden toxic chemicals harmful to our children’s health. I wish I were tricking you.

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Mike Schade

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Open Flexible Work Politics & Policy

10/22/14

Quality improvements are indeed important—important enough to warrant the additional investment required. But we cannot keep pretending that these improvements can be paid for out of the current pool of meager resources. If we do, then even fewer children will be served. Child care centers serving low-income families will either opt-out if the quality improvements are voluntary, or be priced-out of existence if they are mandatory. Either of these outcomes will exacerbate the struggles of the working poor.

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Alyssa Peterson

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

10/22/14

Celebrate National Work & Family Month with a Facebook chat about the need for paid family and medical leave!

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Sara Alcid

Politics & Policy

10/22/14

Did you know that even though there are 25 million Latinas living in the United States and 8,236 open seats in state and national political office, only 109 are held by Latinas? Are YOU the one that we’re waiting for? Join us this Thursday for our newest webinar “I was the one we were waiting for”...

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Erin Vilardi

Open Flexible Work

10/21/14

Next to quality child care, flex time–much more than high tech fertility–is the most effective benefit companies could give women, and increasingly, men as well, to enhance opportunities to advance their careers while garnering better retention rates and job satisfaction without compromising productivity.

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Gloria Feldt

Food Tips

Food!

10/20/14

I wasn’t much of a cook when I was younger. I admit it, I loved eating out. It was my biggest expense. Now, that I am older, with two sons who would eat me out of house and home if I let them, I realize that I can’t eat out as often as I once did. And, I don’t want to. Our bonding as a family has happened in the kitchen and at the dining table.

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Migdalia Rivera

Family Economic Security Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

10/20/14

So you have an important job interview. Your sitter cancels. What do you do? When it happened to First Lady Michelle Obama, she packed up baby Malia, carted her into that job interview, and was completely surprised when she still landed the job.   The First Family's efforts to make sure our...

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Megan Beyer

Podcast

10/18/14

The #RADIO show this week starts out by getting the inside scoop on the minimum wage, which for tipped workers is stuck at $2.13 an hour! We discuss how this impacts you and our economy. Then in the next interview we cover just how many people do have access to paid sick days, and how many don't,...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration

10/17/14

“As time went on, I saw how my own country, the place where I lived, was actually a bad place. I would see people fight and I thought that would be my life. I thought, that’s me–then I turned 4.”

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Alyssa Peterson