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07/06/09

More parents than ever are balancing work and raising children. When I was growing up, just over one-third of mothers with young children worked outside the home. Today, it’s nearly two-thirds. The cost of quality child care is steadily increasing across New York. families across New York are...

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Environmental Health

07/06/09

Quick Note: Please check us out at Daily Kos and "recommend" our diary! Last week Senate Bill 772 , a California bill that would stop a de facto requirement for toxic chemicals in the foam of children’s furniture and baby products, barely made it out of the Assembly environmental committee. The...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health Health Care

07/04/09

This July 4, MomsRising is urging our members to declare independence from toxic chemicals and become part of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families campaign! At MomsRising, we hear from members all the time who are deeply concerned about dangerous chemicals in the environment and in the products we...

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Ariana Kelly

07/02/09

If you need to replace a husband, you might consider a union. What women used to find in marriage-- lifetime material security- might well come from collective agreements. A few weeks ago, I interviewed a a single mother from California. After Jessica Garcia's husband left, she found herself with...

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Amy Cross

07/02/09

You know the drill: A baby has something in her hand that's incredibly appealing like a chocolate bar, or say, real healthcare reform, and you slyly remove it from her grasp and offer her melba toast, or in this case, a broken healthcare system. Yes, the insurance industry is trying to beat us at...

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Donna Norton

07/01/09

What are you doing with your Summer? Normally, when people ask me this question I have fabulous answers like spending a lot of time poolside, enjoying lazy summer weekends with my kids, catching fireflies and enjoying the TV coverage of Wimbledon. Although this summer, I have tried to carve out...

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Aimee Ossman

07/01/09

This article is cross posted with permission from NC Policy Watch blog . by Louisa Warren Today, hundreds of MomsRising.org members delivered a message to state legislators: give kids and families a fair shake in their budget negotiations. That means preserving investments in programs like Smart...

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Sarah Francis

07/01/09

Sometimes I have the same dream over and over again - I am rushing, always rushing while my child is talking to me and I can’t hear anything he is saying to me and I keep asking him to speak louder and if only he could speak louder I would be able to hear him. Then I wake up in a pool of sweat with...

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Pamela Murphy

Family Economic Security

06/30/09

On Friday, we heard a story that we felt we had to share with you. It's about Daniel's 84 year-old mom, Irene. Her bank is selling the house she has lived in for 34 years.

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Katie Bethell

Environmental Health

06/27/09

In case you missed it, Newsweek's science editor Sharon Begley wrote a story on how anyone with an agenda can find research to support that agenda. The example she used were companies who make products with the toxic chemical bisphenol A . So-called "BPAs" are found in hard plastic like baby...

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Elisa Batista