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11/04/09

Let me be candid: health care reform has struck a personal chord. On October 4th, my aunt Margarita died of pneumonia and cancer. After receiving that dreaded call from my sister saying Margarita only had hours to live, I caught the first flight to Rhode Island. On the flight, I could not help but...

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Marielena Hincapie

11/04/09

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog Karen Kornbluh , long a hero of mine, has written an article for the current issue of Ms. Magazine . She notes the 50% workforce participation rate for women, and hails this moment as a critical opportunity to update our infrastructure, i.e. employment benefits,...

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Valerie Young

11/04/09

As a blogger on Moms Rising , I feel it is important to raise awareness about issues of importance to women and mothers and to ensure that our voices are heard. Although this one doesn't affect me specifically as a Canadian, I know many of my readers are Americans. Please watch this video and raise...

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Annie

Environmental Health Health Care

11/03/09

Chemical security is probably not something you think about every day, nor should it be! As parents, we have enough to worry about. That’s why we need government and businesses to do their jobs to minimize the risks our families face from toxic chemicals. Did you know that this summer in North...

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Ariana Kelly

11/03/09

Our members did it again! After receiving messages from MomsRising members, Speaker of the U.S. House, Nancy Pelosi, is now also wearing the MomsRising pacifier pin as she joins us in not being pacified until Congress delivers comprehensive and affordable coverage for children and families. (See...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

11/02/09

California is hardly the only state that has identified sweetened sodas as a major contributing factor to the growing obesity epidemic among children. Now, as the state considers legislation that would tax sweetened sodas, the American Academy of Family Physicians has weighed in a most surprising...

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Ruth Rosen

11/02/09

A few years ago m y life was much like the lives of many other mothers across the United States . M ost of my waking hours were consumed with my job and taking care of my family. There were times when my daughter Rylee, now 12 years old, would spend the evening i n a sleeping bag near my desk at...

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Kathleen Chrismer

Environmental Health

11/01/09

Children's health is connected to the well-being of our world.

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Alice Shabecoff

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

10/30/09

I’ve been on a one-woman campaign to resurrect the phrase, paycheck job , used by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique forty years ago. Friedan was referring, of course, to jobs outside the home for which people receive money. She recognized that the unpaid job of caring for children and home was...

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Nanette Fondas

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education

10/30/09

Why is it so hard to tell our bosses we have to leave for family reasons? What if all the dads where we worked did it more often? Leaders like Valerie Jarrett show that being committed to your kids and your job are not mutually exclusive -- and employers win when they recognize that. Maria Shriver's report A Women's Nation offers fresh ideas for opening up more common-sense conversation - like adopting UK "right to request" rules that allow parents to get some control over their hours and still produce great results for their employers.

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