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Childcare & Early Education

Indiscriminate Budget Cuts at What Toll?

02/02/11
The recent House proposal to slash domestic spending to 2008 levels would mean millions lost in funding for early childhood programs. It’s easy to give short shrift to this number when discussing it broadly and in the abstract. After all, there is wide agreement that balance needs to be restored to...
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Hannah Matthews
Health Care

CA Gov. Brown Proposes Deep Cuts to Health & Human Services Programs, Includes Some New Revenues

02/01/11
On January 10th, Governor Jerry Brown released an 18-month proposed budget plan aimed at closing a $25.4 billion shortfall for fiscal years 2010-11 and 2011-12. The plan calls for a 5-year extension of tax increases previously approved under the Schwarzenegger Administration as well as $12.5...
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Ellen Wu

Tired of the loudmouths on TV?

02/01/11
Get tired of hearing the same loudmouths jabbering on about politics on TV? Us too. That's why we're bringing the voices of MomsRising members to a national audience. Voices like Kris Cambra, a Massachusetts MomsRising member, who the night of the vote to repeal health reform told ABC World News...
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Donna Norton

Citizens United v. United Citizens: Building a Movement to Drive Money Out of Politics

02/01/11
The Citizens United Supreme Court case dramatically accelerated the corruptive force of money in U.S. politics - but could this major political shift also serve as the catalyst needed to stimulate a broad-scale organizing effort to restore the health of American democracy?
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Gideon Rosenblatt
Childcare & Early Education

A Compelling Argument for Public School Choice

02/01/11
Inside scoop : I facebooked and tweeted the story about the Ohio mom who became a convicted felon after she used her parents' address to send her daughters to a public school there. According to a very close source, the mother was an employee at the Akron schools district she refused to send her...
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Elisa Batista
Childcare & Early Education

WANTED TODAY: 51 MOMS CHARGED UP ABOUT EDUCATION! Share your concerns with Arne Duncan at Parenting’s Mom Congress this April

01/31/11
Have you devoted countless hours of your time at school board meetings, or talking with school officials to help make your school as good as it can be? Do you know a mom who has fought tirelessly to protect your school from budget cuts? Or a parent who stood up to school policy when it didn’t make...
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Ana Connery
Health Care

Stop Socializing the Downside and Privatizing the Upside

01/31/11
Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0 . I have been watching Clint Eastwood films lately and thinking about his role in fueling the belittlement of government. In Dirty Harry , for example, the Eastwood character is a loner who stands up to lily-livered bureaucrats who lack the cojones to do what needs to...
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Joan C. Williams
Childcare & Early Education

Justice?

01/31/11
As you've likely seen in the news, Ohio mom, Kelley Williams-Bolar, recently went to jail for sending her kids to a highly ranked school near where her father lives, which was out of her home school district.[1] She was trying to give her children a better life. Now, as a convicted felon, helping...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Paid Family Leave

Who is in charge of your maternity care?

01/29/11
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Womens Enews reports that maternity wards and obstetric units are closing across the country. Depending on where you live, and whether or not you have health insurance, you could be far away...
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Valerie Young

Wal-Mart Supreme Court Case Highlights Difficulty of Challenging Pay Disparities

01/27/11
By Lenora Lapidus, Director, ACLU Women's Rights Project Today, business and advocacy groups filed briefs in the Supreme Court in a lawsuit brought by women employees of retail giant Wal-Mart. In 2001, a group of women brought a lawsuit against the retailer charging that the company engaged in...
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Roger Baldwin

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