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Family Economic Security Blog Carnivals MomsVote

09/15/11

Economic security has been a major concern for everyone, but perhaps especially so for Latinas. Studies indicate that Latinas had an 11.4% unemployment rate in August 2011, compared to about 9% overall. And when they work, Latinas earn, on average, less than sixty cents for every dollar earned by a...

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Anjela Jenkins

Health Care Blog Carnivals MomsVote

09/15/11

While the U.S. still has a long way to go to make employment breastfeeding-friendly for all babes, there has been some great progress recently, and more women are getting into the working and pumping groove. Who knows, some day soon, the water cooler may be eclipsed by the lactation lounge as the...

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Bettina Forbes

Blog Carnivals MomsVote

09/15/11

When I was in high school and college, I worked in restaurants. I worked for minimum wage and I worked hard - cleaning, cooking, even counting money and making bank deposits. I remember my pay going from 3.35 an hour to 3.45 an hour when I made ‘head cashier’ - a job that carried a lot more...

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Jenya Cassidy

Family Economic Security Blog Carnivals MomsVote

09/15/11

President Obama recently laid out his new “American Jobs Act” before Congress in the hope of revitalizing our economy, putting the willing to work and finally ending one of the Nation’s longest and worst recessions. With unemployment at a startling high--and making only marginal, if any,...

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Bettina Hager

Health Care

09/14/11

Last week, California legislators came together across party lines (yes, you read that right!) to support a bill that would prevent a 37% budget cut to our state’s Healthy Families Program. Hooray! The Healthy Families Program provides health insurance to nearly 900,000 children in California. This...

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Ashley Boyd

Paid Sick Days Family Economic Security

09/14/11

Even though things are gridlocked in D.C. right now, we're still having victories across the country! For example, the Seattle City Council overwhelmingly passed paid sick days just this week– and MomsRising members are widely credited with helping to bring this about with their emails, calls,...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

09/14/11

I have always strived to be a compassionate person -- to be someone who puts myself in someone else’s shoes. Since becoming a new mom, I’ve found that my compassion toward others has only deepened and this is especially true of my empathy for other moms. Below are four ways that being a new mom has...

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Michelle Noehren

09/13/11

by Julie Vogtman , Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center The Census Bureau just released new data on poverty in the U.S. in 2010. Though 2010 marked the first full year of the recovery that began when the recession officially ended in June 2009, the number of Americans living in poverty...

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Thao Nguyen

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

09/13/11

Over 90% of Americans have detectable levels of bisphenol-A in their bodies, which makes BPA one of the most pervasive toxic chemicals in our modern lives . Scary stuff, considering that studies link BPA exposure to breast cancer, infertility, early onset puberty, ADHD, and obesity . You can reduce...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Open Flexible Work

09/13/11

On the list of paradoxes, not many beat flying around the world to give talks about climate change. I can justify my carbon footprint if I have to--with myself as the main moving part, we've managed to build 350.org into the first big global climate campaign, organizing what CNN has called the "...

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Bill McKibben