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02/28/12

There are 123,000 uninsured kids in Michigan- enough children to stretch 70 miles if they held hands, fill 2,236 school buses and form 13,666 little league teams. Decreasing that number through “on the ground”, community-based enrollment was the focus of our work as Cycle 1 CHIPRA grantee. With...

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Erin Sloan-Turner

Blog Carnivals

02/28/12

Getting and keeping health insurance is one hurdle that the Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA) has worked to overcome as part of the Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge. We’ve enrolled nearly 2,000 children in coverage through our statewide outreach efforts and because of Michigan’s unique...

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Natasha Robinson

Health Care

02/28/12

This piece was written and submitted by Erin Wyner, MD, a family physician and proud member of the National Physicians Alliance . As a physician, I am deeply concerned about the extreme opposition from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to important new rules requiring employers that provide...

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Jean Silver-Isenstadt, MD, PhD

02/27/12

Did you know that the majority of workers making minimum wage are women? Did you know that the national minimum wage is $7.25/hour? According to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), that means that a woman working full time, year round at the federal minimum wage earns just $14,500—more than $3,000 below the poverty line for a family of three.

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Michelle Noehren

Open Flexible Work

02/27/12

If micro-managers are like babysitters, then the bosses we all hope to have are like great coaches. Coaches inspire and bring out the best in their team. Micro-managers slowly suck the life out of you. Everybody knows a micro-manager, but nobody claims to be one. Certainly, bosses view themselves...

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Cali Ressler

02/26/12

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Women’s advocates in Washington found their jaws hitting the floor last week when a Congressional oversight committee convened a panel of experts to discuss freedom of religion and women’s...

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Valerie Young

02/26/12

Wave Your American Flag! Write a short essay (200 words max) on how your family passes on good citizenship. Post it in the comments below my essay here: How I Raised a 21-year old Patriotic Hipster. We'll choose three winners who will each receive a pair of tickets to attend The Guiding Lights...

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Jena Cane

Environmental Health

02/25/12

Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Gloria Pan, campaign director of MomsRising, and learned that this unique organization has become involved in the efforts to improve air quality. After years of delays, new regulations enforcing the Air Image from Baylor Health Care System Art for Asthma 2009...

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Sumita B. Khatri, MD, MS

02/24/12

In spite of decades of anti-obesity programming, awareness of negative health outcomes associated with obesity, and attention from very important individuals – including First Lady Michelle Obama – the obesity epidemic continues to worsen nationally, hitting African-American families the hardest...

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Felicia DeHaney

02/24/12

During Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, a popular magazine for teens, XXL Magazine, ran a video interview with hip-hop artist Too $hort where he encouraged teenage boys to “turn girls out” by pushing them "up against the Image by Flickr user Leo Reynolds wall.” The recording artist continued,...

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