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02/13/13

This week is meant to be a celebration of true love all around the world. We sneak flowers into our loved ones’ offices, send sweet notes to our grandmothers, host Valentine parties in school classrooms, and watch movies like The Princess Bride. Growing up, I knew that you “can’t buy love.” Sadly,...

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Andrea Powell

Childcare & Early Education Blog Carnivals

02/13/13

It’s Black History Month, and when it comes to that history in cartoons, the news hasn’t always been good. For decades cartoons, mostly by the Disney corporation, featured lots of white characters and lots of black stereotypes. But as the song says, the times they are a-changin’. In recent years...

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Martha Burk

Health Care

02/13/13

[Cross-posted from the Rio Arriba Community Health Council Blog. ] Recently, after months of silence, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez became one of several Republicans to blur the Right's anti-socialist line in the sand by adopting Medicaid expansion. As New Mexico is surpassed only by Texas in...

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Lauren Reichelt

Environmental Health Health Care

02/13/13

Photo Credit: Jacqueline Argote – Zach Behar Films WATCH THE VIDEO Uh oh…. The nonprofit corporate watchdog As You Sow just found nanoparticles in the Dunkin Donuts they tested! How they got in there and why they're in there is not well understood. But what is known is that the tiny titanium...

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Andy Behar

Paid Family Leave

02/12/13

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) – the nation’s first and only federal law that helps women and men meet their responsibilities at home and on the job. And even though the law has been a huge success, new data from the Department of Labor reveal that...

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Debra L. Ness

02/11/13

By Anna Benyo , Senior Health Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center A recent study by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine confirmed what many Governors, state legislators, advocates, and the public already know: covering more hardworking people through the Medicaid program is not only...

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Thao Nguyen

Paid Family Leave

02/11/13

Wonky Washington is making merry about the 20th anniversary of President Clinton’s signing of the Family Medical Leave. This was the federal law that required some employers to allow some employees to take up to 12 weeks away from work, without pay , to deal with the birth or adoption of a child, a...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health

02/08/13

Spread the news! The largest climate rally EVER in the U.S. is taking place on Sunday, February 17th in Washington, DC. Thousands of people are mobilizing for the rally, which is organized by 350.org, the Sierra Club, and the Hip Hop Caucus; the Center for Food Safety’s Cool Foods Campaign is one...

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Diana Donlon

Paid Family Leave Family Economic Security

02/08/13

This blog carnival was updated several times, including on February 6, February 7 and February 8, 2013. You read that right. Its been 20 years since the United States passed job-protected, unpaid family medical leave for families to care for themselves during time of illness, or to celebrate the...

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Carol Joyner

Paid Family Leave Family Economic Security

02/08/13

This blog post originally appeared at the Coalition of Labor Union Women . It is hard to believe that 20 years have passed since the Family and Medical Leave Act became law. The Coalition of Labor Union Women was an active proponent for years, and passage of family and medical leave was a critical...

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