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10/23/12

(A version of this story originally appeared in Birth to Thrive Online .) Last year Congress failed to agree on how to cut the federal budget deficit and that means 1,400 children could lose their spots in Head Start programs around Washington state this January, a new report says. The reasons for...

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Paul Nyhan

10/23/12

While not normally a tradition for us, my two kids and I carved pumpkins this past weekend. It was their first time and only my second. They’ve seen our neighbors and their friends display carved pumpkins and have been asking me about it. I jumped at the chance when one of my co-workers at...

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Elisa Batista

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Immigration MomsVote Politics & Policy

10/23/12

Are you headed to a town hall event, election forum, or did you just run into a candidate at the grocery store? Take along our handy list of sample questions that you can use to ask the candidates about issues that are important to women and families. Find out where your candidates stand! And, you...

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Ruth Martin

Podcast

10/22/12

Did you hear the first presidential debate? I listened and it was a shocker. Somehow in a 90-minute conversation about our national economy, we managed to avoid talking about women and families. The utter failure to touch on key policies that significantly impact our national economy and that...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Politics & Policy

10/22/12

This is it! The last presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle is tonight. And while the focus of the debate will be on foreign policy, we’re still planning to play presidential debate BINGO because who knows what will happen! Join us! Download your BINGO card here and then get online to watch...

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Ruth Martin

10/22/12

With grotesque shootings continuing to devastate families across America, I have been travelling quite a bit lately in my work advocating for responsible gun laws. On September 12-13, my destination was Florida, where I attended the state-appointed Florida Task Force on Citizen Safety and...

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Lori Haas

10/22/12

Last week was “women’s week” in the presidential debate, and the candidates fought over the girls in their stump speeches at every stop afterwards. Monday's face-off moves on to foreign policy; the women in the binders and the equal pay issue will likely be left in the paper shredder along with...

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Martha Burk

Open Flexible Work

10/21/12

More telling than Governor Mitt Romney’s inaccurate “binders full of women” comment during the presidential debate last week, were his comments about workplace flexibility, and, the comments he didn’t make. When asked by voter Katherine Fenton how he planned to rectify the inequalities in the...

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Liz O'Donnell

Podcast

10/20/12

As the November 6 election draws near, candidates across the country are talking about the issues that they think will get them the very most votes -- but are they missing out? Are they ignoring important topics? *LISTEN TO THE SHOW HERE: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/moms-rising-radio/...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Podcast Food!

10/19/12

Last month, five incredible food experts came together on MomsRising radio to talk about junk food, school lunches, better food, and more. They shared an incredible wealth of information---trust me, this list could have been the top 100 tips from food experts on eating healthy. To hear the rest of...

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