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10/24/12

I love this time of year because a whole bunch of my favorite things all come together: Pumpkin spice lattes, Halloween, cooler weather, elections and… electoral pumpkins! What the what? What is an electoral pumpkin? A weird band? A polling firm? No – electoral pumpkins are my go-to election season...

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Ruth Martin

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10/24/12

In 2011, I taught two summer courses, directed a federal budget research organization and paid taxes. Taxes are the dues I pay for living in a democracy. Like you, I contribute at the local, state, and federal levels. I want us to fall a little bit in love with the federal budget and there’s no...

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Jo Comerford

Breastfeeding Health Care

10/24/12

No one is more interested in breast cancer than I. My mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 10 years old and died of a recurrence seven years later. Now, more than twenty years after my mother's death, my sister and I are both nearing the age of my mother's first diagnosis and...

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Ashley Boyd

10/23/12

(A version of this story originally appeared in Birth to Thrive Online .) Last year Congress failed to agree on how to cut the federal budget deficit and that means 1,400 children could lose their spots in Head Start programs around Washington state this January, a new report says. The reasons for...

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Paul Nyhan

10/23/12

While not normally a tradition for us, my two kids and I carved pumpkins this past weekend. It was their first time and only my second. They’ve seen our neighbors and their friends display carved pumpkins and have been asking me about it. I jumped at the chance when one of my co-workers at...

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Elisa Batista

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10/23/12

Are you headed to a town hall event, election forum, or did you just run into a candidate at the grocery store? Take along our handy list of sample questions that you can use to ask the candidates about issues that are important to women and families. Find out where your candidates stand! And, you...

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Ruth Martin

Podcast

10/22/12

Did you hear the first presidential debate? I listened and it was a shocker. Somehow in a 90-minute conversation about our national economy, we managed to avoid talking about women and families. The utter failure to touch on key policies that significantly impact our national economy and that...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Politics & Policy

10/22/12

This is it! The last presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle is tonight. And while the focus of the debate will be on foreign policy, we’re still planning to play presidential debate BINGO because who knows what will happen! Join us! Download your BINGO card here and then get online to watch...

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Ruth Martin

10/22/12

With grotesque shootings continuing to devastate families across America, I have been travelling quite a bit lately in my work advocating for responsible gun laws. On September 12-13, my destination was Florida, where I attended the state-appointed Florida Task Force on Citizen Safety and...

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Lori Haas

10/22/12

Last week was “women’s week” in the presidential debate, and the candidates fought over the girls in their stump speeches at every stop afterwards. Monday's face-off moves on to foreign policy; the women in the binders and the equal pay issue will likely be left in the paper shredder along with...

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