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04/24/09

Despite shrinking budgets and dire economic forecasts, at least four Republican governors are planning to turn away a portion of the federal stimulus funds. Why? Because these funds would require them to extend unemployment insurance benefits to part-time workers who have been laid off in their states.

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Dina Bakst

04/24/09

A new series of national public service advertisements designed to encourage consumers to get involved in their health care by knowing and asking appropriate questions when visiting their doctors or other clinicians was launched today by the U.S.

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Fran Drescher

04/23/09

Until recently, many of us twentysomethings believed that we were invincible. Alas, in these tough economic times, some of us have succumbed-- gracefully, no doubt-- to that catchy "last one hired, first one fired" refrain. Some of our smugness may be gone, but at least we still have our dashing good looks and our health, right?

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Yelizavetta Kofman & Astri von Arbin Ahlander

04/22/09

My word of the day is "irony." I was supposed to attend the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hearing about updated guidance on caregiver discrimination in the workplace to live blog it for MomsRising. Then my nine-year-old daughter got sick and was home from school, so I couldn't attend.

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Joanne Bamberger

Families & The Federal Budget

04/16/09

Click here to read the whole post from Your (Wo)man in Washington. Written by MOTHERS Guest Blogger, Kelly Coyle DiNorcia

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health Health Care

04/16/09

I still cant get over that there are so few and no federal law preventing the building of schools on or near sources of pollution no matter how many times I say it out loud or write it down.

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Renee Blanchard

Environmental Health

04/10/09

I still can't get over that there are so few and no federal law preventing the building of schools on or near sources of pollution no matter how many times I say it out loud or write it down. And to add to all the rational and simple explanations that come to mind to why there should be laws and...

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Renee Blanchard

04/09/09

"Sandwich Mom" takes on the Oregon legislature & gets on front page of the Business section. Here's a great picture (Sandwich Mom is very photogenic!) and terrific article > in The Oregonian newspaper today: Proponents of paid family leave seek support in Oregon Legislature

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Realistic & Fair Wages

04/08/09

April 28 will mark Equal Pay Day — the point in 2009 when the average woman’s wages finally catch up with what the average man earned in 2008.

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Melanie Ross-Levin

04/07/09

In the summer of 1881, the washerwomen of Atlanta were working long hours for meager wages, in harrowing working conditions. These were very poor, mostly black women, and their work was essential to sustain their families. Despite their endless hours of hard work, their wages stagnated over time, and most struggled to make ends meet.

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Steffany Stern