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10/22/15

A home should be a refuge and a place of comfort. But for many women their landlords are a source of fear, demanding sexual favors along with rent money. This kind of sexual harassment isn’t often in the news cycle but it happens routinely, just below the radar, and it’s one of the subjects of a...

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Gustavo Velasquez

Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days

10/22/15

Sneezy does it! Let's prevent another seasonal flu epidemic by making sure Congress passes the Healthy Families Act, a national paid sick days bill!

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Sara Alcid

Health Care

10/22/15

To honor LGBT History Month and mark what a historic year it has been for LGBTQ families, we chatted with the Family Equality Council about what else we have left for achieve for LGBTQ equality when it comes to healthcare, workplace protections (including paid sick days & paid leave), housing,...

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Sili Recio

Health Care

10/22/15

Are you willing to p*** people off in order to take care of yourself? A big part of my work as a life balance teacher/coach is supporting women in attuning and responding to their needs and desires through practicing the art of self-care (read why self-care matters here ). During a recent women’s...

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Renee Trudeau

MomsVote

10/22/15

There are just under 16 weeks until the New Hampshire primary – 16 weeks, 111 days, it seems so long, and yet – throw in Christmas, New Years and a snow storm or two, and it will be February 9th before you know it. In New Hampshire we take our politics quite seriously, and we expect the candidates...

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Christina D'Allesandro

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

10/21/15

I grew up solidly middle class. So much has changed since then. We expect more. Two cars, not one. More than one television per household. Air conditioning, not fans. All the new gadgets. What has also changed is that health care costs have soared. Cars and housing take up a larger percentage of...

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Susan Shaer

Food!

10/21/15

Get inspired by the amazing Eileen Carter-Campos! Eileen was an honoree at our Food Power 2014 event in the Bronx, NY. Eileen Campos is a teacher, who saw first hand the unhealthy meals children received in schools. While working with Laura Fuentes from MOMables, she chronicled her classroom's...

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Karen Showalter

Food!

10/21/15

Get inspired by the amazing Bess Hauser, who was an honoree at our Food Power 2014 event in the Bronx, NY. Bess has spent the last five years actively engaged in her Brooklyn community through the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, the Brooklyn Food Coalition, Brad Lander's Participatory Budgeting Process...

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Karen Showalter

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

10/21/15

Budgets are made up of equal parts spending out and revenue in. But budget negotiators in Washington this fall are talking only about what spending to cut, not what revenue to raise—even though there are tax loopholes to close that should draw rare bipartisan support and eliminate the need to cut...

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Frank Clemente

Food!

10/21/15

I live in an agricultural community, surrounded by apple orchards. We frequent the weekly farmer's market, garden (a lot, as you'll notice from my other posts) and in general my family really embraces the importance of eating fresh, healthy and local. So I'm a natural fan of Farm to School programs...

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Karen Showalter