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08/13/15

It’s one of the most important things we can do for our families. But for too many North Carolinians, providing healthy food is a hard thing to do. With many families needing to rely on their neighborhood corner or convenience stores for food purchases, access to healthy food can be limited. More...

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Felicia Burnett

Paid Family Leave

08/13/15

Last month, the U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez came to Hawaii to convene a roundtable on paid family leave. I've been following this movement for a few years, so I was not surprised when the secretary talked about the high numbers of qualified women who drop out of the workforce because the "...

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Shay Chan Hodges

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

08/12/15

By Wendi C. Thomas, Writing Fellow, Center for Community Change What bothers Brittany James most about the 15-hour days she worked for Chipotle Mexican Grill isn’t the overtime pay she says she was due but never received. What James will never get back is the time. The birthday celebrations she...

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Marisol Bello

Health Care

08/12/15

When my son Aaron was just 28 months old, he started to stutter. Not the easy disfluency that most children will have for short periods. This was forced speech that came with a stomach-flex and neck strain. When most kids are bouncing along with bumpy speech, they don’t know they’re doing it, they...

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Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Health Care

08/12/15

Location, location, location. It’s one of the biggest concerns for nursing moms who plan to pump at work. The good news is that whether you work in a retail store, a restaurant, or an airplane hangar, there are ways of making space for you to pump. In some cases, it just requires a bit of...

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Nancy C. Lee

Environmental Health

08/11/15

Leading baby products companies like Fisher Price say that they don’t want parents to be confused about toxic flame retardant chemicals that may be used in many children’s products. So why is Fisher Price refusing to give a straight answer to parents who ask about flame retardants in their products...

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Charles Margulis

Health Care

08/11/15

Let’s see: Shop for school supplies…check. Make sure immunizations are up-to-date…check. Sign up for sports and music lessons…check. Talk about sexual abuse prevention…wait. What? I feel like such a grownup when I say it, but the summer has really flown by. We’re starting to make sure all the books...

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Allison Wedell Schumacher

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Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

08/10/15

Millions of moms are working overtime but not getting paid because of a glitch in our country's overtime rules. Here are four stories from moms who would be given a boost if we change these overtime rules!

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Elyssa Schmier

Food!

08/10/15

Greetings! Check out the latest on sugar and salt, as well as a great shot of some future leaders in the food justice movement, below! Got some great content you'd like to feature in a future Good Food Force update? Please email karen@momsrising.org. As always, the conversation continues online...

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Karen Showalter

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Food!

08/07/15

Author's Note: Although this chat ended you can click to read the August 7, 2015 #FoodFri STORIFY - a curated list of said chat's tweets compiled into a story format, to learn more about the topic, review chat resources and engage with chat panelist(s) and participants . Please join @MomsRising and...

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