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06/20/12

Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user Rik Ruff 3.1 million people are newly insured because of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that lets young adults to stay on their parents’ health care plans up to age 26. That is amazing. I graduated four years ago, and I saw the fallout firsthand of a bad...

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Claire Moshenberg

06/20/12

I think we all can agree that Dolores Huerta, the UFW's co-founder and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation is an exemplary role-model of a good American. Dolores has spent her life sacrificing to advocate for workers, immigrants, and women's rights. She has a fierce determination to help the...

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Jocelyn Sherman

Health Care

06/20/12

Yesterday we told you about an amazing change in the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), lactation policy for nursing mothers. The new policy allows nursing mothers, to request extended or additional breaks to pump during the LSAT, for up to one year following childbirth. We got involved after...

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Roger Baldwin

Childcare & Early Education

06/19/12

Beckie Moralez I recently saw Magali Sanchez-Hall and Beckie Moralez share their personal stories. A single mother and survivor of domestic violence, Magali will soon graduate from UCLA – precisely because she was able to get help from CalWORKS, childcare and Cal Grants – with a degree and a...

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Sande Smith

Environmental Health Health Care

06/19/12

Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user Andrew Currie Summer is here, and for a lot of families that means it's time to hit the road for a family road trip. Make sure you and your family stay healthy by taking your nontoxic habits with you when you travel. With a few small tweaks, you can make your road...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

06/19/12

It used to be Americans viewed Catholic hospitals and healthcare systems with universal respect and trust. They had no reason to do otherwise. Founded in the nineteenth century by orders of nuns with a mission to care for the poor, Catholic hospitals grew and thrived in modern industrial medicine...

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Barbara Coombs Lee

Childcare & Early Education

06/18/12

Photo from: http://www.blogsouthwest.com/ More and more people are recognizing the exploitation of women's images in the media and the impact it can have on our daughters -- and our sons. They are pushing back, not gonna take it anymore. I am impressed by the mainstream embrace of courageous...

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Homa Tavangar

Childcare & Early Education

06/17/12

My father influenced the course of my life in two dramatic ways. Before I could read, he took me to the public library and read me all the Madeline and Babar the Elephant books. We must have spent hours and hours doing this – me on his lap, his chin resting lightly on the top of my head – because...

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Valerie Young

Paid Family Leave

06/15/12

By Vibhuti Mehra, Labor Project for Working Families Last month, I wrote about a state-by-state analysis that ranked California as a leader among nearly all other states in the country because of its policies to support working parents. California was one of just two states to earn a grade of “A-”...

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Vibhuti Mehra

06/15/12

“Parenting isn’t easy, when done correctly,” one of my moms once told me. As somebody who is not (as far as I know) a parent, I can only ruminate on the challenges I watched my moms endure in raising my sister and me, but it seems to be an accurate observation. Though, to be fair, this is coming...

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