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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

11/23/11

I asked my daughter, "What's your favorite thing about Thanksgiving?" She answered in one exuberant word, "Eating!" While many celebrate by eating together on Thanksgiving, far too many children in our nation (nearly 1 in 4) live in families who are struggling to put food on the table because of...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

11/22/11

By Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President, National Women's Law Center Forty years ago today, for the first time in its history, the Supreme Court held that a law that discriminated against women violated the Constitution. In Reed v. Reed , a unanimous Court struck down an Idaho law requiring the...

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Thao Nguyen

Immigration

11/22/11

Emily Butera is the Senior Program Officer for Detention and Asylum at the Women's Refugee Commission Maribel was driving in Virginia with her one-year-old child when she was pulled over by a police officer, who asked to see her driver’s license. A Mexican citizen living in the U.S. without a visa...

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Emily Butera

Environmental Health

11/22/11

The holiday season is almost upon us. And oh, how things seem to speed up, and expectations fall like rain. Family meals, holiday parties, school events and fundraisers, gifts for friends and family.... it can get overwhelming even for the most zen like among us. It is even easier to grab processed...

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Katy Farber

11/22/11

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…. a North Carolina Stroller Brigade for Safer Chemicals! If you happened to be in downtown Raleigh, NC last week, you would have been in for quite a treat. It’s rare to see a super hero strolling down the city streets, let alone a whole parade going by with capes...

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Beth Messersmith

11/22/11

Children Children are the most vulnerable people on the planet. According to a 2002 World Health Organization report, 150 million girls and 73 million boys experience sexual abuse. Right here in the United States, child sexual abuse is rampant . Often, these abuses take place right in the homes and...

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Monifa Bandele

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

11/22/11

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Prepare to be impressed with yourselves, girls. The US Census Bureau just put out new numbers on maternity leave and employment which show we’ve spent the past 40 years investing wisely in...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health Family Economic Security

11/22/11

I am Country As earth lays bare her fertile body I stand boldly naked Whole and entwined We are one In defiance of your objection Objectification You may not dissect me You may not own me You may not occupy me I am Country Every part that you cut, rape, and mine You cannot destroy me My blood runs...

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Lisa Labon

Environmental Health

11/22/11

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org I just tuned in to the webcast of last week’s Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing on the 2011 Safe Chemicals Act . Scintillating stuff. No, really. Healthy Child Healthy...

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Rachel Sarnoff

11/21/11

Cross posted from the White House blog Last Thursday, Americans from across the country began making plans to quit smoking as part of the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout. And we released a video from President Obama congratulating everyone who is participating in this important...

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