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A Sneak Preview for Members of MomsRising of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s New Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database

02/07/11
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is the leading federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of consumer products. We protect families like yours, from risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products, including items that many of you use every day, such as...
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Inez M. Tenenbaum, CPSC Chairman
Paid Family Leave Health Care

I showered every third day.

02/07/11
When I was pregnant with my first baby, I spent a fair amount of time daydreaming about what maternity leave would be like: Leisurely walks in the park, spending time gardening in the back yard while my baby slept peacefully in her bouncy seat, restful hours spent cuddling a smiling gurgling cooing...
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Ruth Martin

via UFW- UPDATE: Should manslaughter equal community service? Demand jail time for heat death of 17-year old Maria Isabel

02/06/11
Only a short time left to fight this travesty Time is running out and we need you to take action. March 9th is the hearing for the sentencing of the two people responsible for the heat death of 17-year old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez. Maria died of heat stroke in 2008 while laboring in the...
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Jocelyn Sherman
Health Care

The Gift of Health

02/05/11
Two years ago this week, Congress and President Obama delivered bipartisan legislation to strengthen the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known here in California as Healthy Families. We are offering a birthday observation for the new law, and we can all celebrate the gift of health this law...
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Children's Defense Fund

Steeler SuperBlogger: 'No Baby Should Leave the Hospital Without an Insurance Card or a Terrible Towel'

02/05/11
(In honor of the Superbowl, Say Ahhh! is hosting a Super Blog-Off to determine whether the Steeler Nation or Packer fans are doing a better job of Connecting Kids to Coverage. Please read both blogs and vote for your favorite by submitting a comment. Comments must be submitted by kick-off Sunday...
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Say Ahhh!

Green Bay Packer SuperBlogger Invokes Lombardi to Show Wisconsin is Leading the Charge for Children's Health

02/05/11
"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." - Vince Lombardi
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Say Ahhh!
Childcare & Early Education

Competitive Mothering Takes a Hit

02/05/11
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org With an eyebrow firmly raised at all the Tiger Mother brouhaha, I was delighted to find this post from Cameron Macdonald , an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-...
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Valerie Young
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

On the FMLA Anniversary, Let’s Focus on the Unmet Needs of Working Families

02/05/11
Cross-posted at the National Partnership for Women & Families . 18 years. That’s how long the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has been in place. It was the first bill President Clinton signed into law and it remains one of the proudest accomplishments of his presidency. The FMLA is...
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Portia Wu

The 80% Solution

02/05/11
The new year is a perfect time to resume my blog posts, which fell victim to a heavy schedule of speaking about Plenitude as well as two new courses at Boston College, where I teach full time. It’s a pleasure to be writing again, and to have the opportunity to send greetings for a good 2011. I hope...
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Juliet Schor

AAP Celebrates Second Anniversary of CHIPRA

02/05/11
By: O. Marion Burton, MD, FAAP, president, American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), representing 60,000 pediatricians, commemorates today’s second anniversary of the enactment of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), one of the most...
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O. Marion Burton, MD, FAAP

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