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08/11/09

As we watched each of our five grandchildren and their friends enter this world and begin their life’s journey, it became more and more clear that something is amiss with this generation. How are your children and your friends’ children doing? Most likely, one of three of the children you know in...

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Alice Shabecoff

08/10/09

Jocelyn Guyer is the Co-Director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and blogs regularly at Say Ahhh! A Children’s Health Policy Blog . It is becoming increasingly clear that Congress may well dismantle the popular Children’s Health Insurance...

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Say Ahhh!

Environmental Health

08/08/09

I am off to the east coast to visit my parents in New Hampshire and attend the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh. In the meantime, I want to alert you of some important dates so please pull out your calendars: I am helping MomsRising pass important legislation in California that would ban...

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Elisa Batista

08/07/09

As Sonia Sotomayor is voted in as our next Justice of the Supreme Court, she represents a critical addition to the Supreme Court's bench. She is a highly qualified judge who has risen through the ranks, offered measured and moderate opinions and is one of the most qualified candidates to be...

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Mable Yee

Environmental Health

08/07/09

They say an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure. I wonder what the prevention of 100 million pounds of toxic pollution equals? Can you put a price on not releasing toxics into the environment? Eliminating the need for future clean up? Eliminating the impacts these toxic substances may have...

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Janelle Sorensen

Health Care

08/07/09

This week is National Farmer's Market Week which is really important to note. As we push for Health care reform and look at all the illnesses that affect our families and communities, we have to look at the impact of the way we eat today. There have been plenty of national studies telling us that...

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Mable Yee

08/06/09

Written by MOTHERS volunteer Kelly Coyle DiNorcia (ahimsamama.blogspot.com) As mother to a 4- and 1-year-old, it’s been a long time since I’ve chosen to forego sleep in order to read. But Bad Mother was one of those books that had me up turning the pages when I should have been catching some Z’s. I...

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Valerie Young

Paid Family Leave Health Care

08/06/09

I was amazed when a friend of mine told me that it took about a month for her and her first baby to figure out how to breastfeed. (Doesn't breastfeeding just...happen?) But she explained to me that it is actually a skill that moms and babies have to figure out. My friend was dedicated to...

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Katie Bethell

Health Care

08/05/09

The United States Congress currently is crafting health reform legislation that will impact us all-- if and when it is passed. It is my hope that these legislators consider the needs of families, and particularly children, in the process, and that is why I feel it is important to Speak Now for Kids...

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Michelle Snyder

Environmental Health

08/05/09

With a looming budget deficit and a staggering $15.5 billion in proposed budget cuts, California's children have lost in a big way. But there is something -- even if that something seems small right now -- that we can do. We can protect our children from the toxicity of bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic...

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Elisa Batista