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05/10/12

When we put our children on the bus or drop them off at school all we really want is for them to learn, to be safe and to return home ready to turn around and do it again – for thirteen years! We also hope they really like it. I don’t think many of us even stop to think about the actual 420 minutes...

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Laura Kaloi

05/10/12

rue or False: 1) A pregnant woman can be fired for carrying a water bottle on the job to stay hydrated and prevent bladder infections. 2) A pregnant activity director at a nursing home can be terminated because she requires help with some physically strenuous aspects of her job to prevent having...

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Dina Bakst

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days

05/10/12

This Mother's Day we're celebrating the fact that moms are now networked and engaged in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. More than 36 million women are now active in the blogosphere, either publishing or reading blogs. And, by the end of this year, more than 90 percent of moms with kids under...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

05/10/12

Just in time for Mother’s Day, some good news for our nation’s children and their parents: More children have health insurance coverage today than at any point in our nation’s history! Despite the severe economic downturn, continued erosion of employer sponsored coverage, and political stalemate in...

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Donna Norton

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

05/10/12

Do your kids argue? Or did they when they were younger? Here's a hilarious Mother's Day fantasy just for you! Happy nearly Mother's Day!!! - Kristin, Joan, Monifa, Elisa, Ashley, Nanette, Sarah, Julie, Sarah, Anita, Ruth, Claire, Donna, Mary, and Gloria

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

05/09/12

In 1974, Congresswoman Bella Abzug realized something: she could make laws in Congress, but she couldn’t get her own credit card without her husband’s permission. Now, almost 40 years after Congresswoman Abzug fought for - and won - the rights of women to get their own credit, that right is being...

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Holly McCall

Health Care

05/09/12

Happy (almost) Mother’s Day! Many new mothers face the sometimes daunting task of figuring out how to continue nursing and maintaining their supply of breast milk after returning to work. Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user ECohen In honor of Mother's Day, we're celebrating some new protections and...

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Claire Moshenberg

05/09/12

Celebrate Mother's Day early on Twitter with us! MomsRising is cohosting a Twitter party with Mocha Moms and Mamiverse at the White House to celebrate moms on May 10 (this Thursday!) at 12:00 PT/3:00ET. That's right- We'll be tweeting from the White House and across the country, and we would love...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Health Care

05/09/12

Happy (almost) Mother's Day! Celebrate the moms in your life with nontoxic gifts and treats. With these easy tips, you can take toxic chemicals out of your Mother's Day breakfast, create your own luxurious beauty gifts for mom, and wrap up your Mother's Day presents in environmentally friendly,...

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Claire Moshenberg

05/09/12

What would it take to make a country where mothers could bear and raise children in the best possible circumstances? How would such a place look? Would it look like the United States? Thanks to Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers Index for 2012 , we already know a great deal about the...

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