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08/16/11

By Galen Sherwin, ACLU Women's Rights Project, and Rebecca T. Wallace, ACLU of Colorado Imagine you've recently come back to work after maternity leave and you're using every last minute of your break time to pump breast milk to feed your baby at home. You just need a little help from your employer...

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Roger Baldwin

Environmental Health Health Care

08/16/11

The first day of school is around the corner, and back-to-school shopping season is in full swing. Kids spend most of their crucial developmental years in school buildings, interacting with their school supplies non-stop throughout the day, which makes picking the healthiest, least toxic supplies...

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Claire Moshenberg

08/16/11

Earlier this year, MomsRising member Heather Burgbacher wrote to us to share her story about the discrimination she was facing after seeking accommodations to express breastmilk while working at a public charter school in Colorado. Heather shared her distress that after years of receiving excellent...

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Ashley Boyd

08/15/11

By Shelby Knox August 15, 2011 Women's Media Center's twenty-something commentator appreciates the HBO documentary, but also wishes for a deeper treatment of WMC Cofounder Gloria Steinem’s philosophy and activism. Gloria Steinem at a news conference in 1969; Jason Laure/HBO Near the end of Gloria:...

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Women's Media Center

Environmental Health Health Care

08/15/11

Sandra Steingraber is my hero. Her book, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood , chronicles her own pregnancy from both a scientific and personal perspective. It’s beautifully and lovingly written—yet for a pregnant woman it’s also a tough read. Trained as a biologist, Steingraber...

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Anna Fahey

08/15/11

“Have there been times in the past twelve months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?” About one in four households with children answered “yes” to that question last year, according to a recent report from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). In 21...

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Hannah Matthews

08/15/11

Stuck for a whiz-bang college essay? Buy an experience! One more way commercialized culture robs kids of authenticity, creativity, and self-motivation.

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Susan Linn

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education

08/12/11

Only one woman on the "Super Committee"? Ouch! Here's the math: Women are 50.7% of our population, only 17% of Congress, and an appallingly low 8% of the Super Committee . This lack of representation on the debt ceiling Super Committee which is charged with cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health

08/12/11

As parents we know how important it is to make sure our kids are securely fastened into their car seat or booster seat. Car seats saves lives, but when it comes to nasty chemicals not all car seats are alike. Last week, we released a study on toxic chemicals in children's car seats on our website...

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Rebecca Meuninck

08/10/11

The rich are doing just fine. An article in last Thursday's New York Times noted that sales of luxury goods are recovering strongly. The age of conspicuous consumption is returning so powerfully that high-end retailers are actually marking up prices on luxury goods. The article quoted one...

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Hannah Matthews