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07/07/11
Photo is of Michelle Noehren with her new baby Lillian and Connecticut Senator Edith Prague, one of the biggest champions of paid sick leave legislation. Blog originally posted at WorkingMother.com Connecticut has made history by passing the first law requiring companies to provide paid sick leave...
Michelle Noehren's picture
07/06/11
Getting together with friends is great. Getting together with friends for a purpose is even better. With so many important policy initiatives happening across the country at both the state and national level, there's no time like the present to throw a party, have some fun, eat some food, and then...
07/05/11
Hey...DIY projects are fun. I love the thought of making all of my own cosmetics and cleaning supplies. I also love the thought of having perfect hair every day and a super organized schedule and a unicorn. We all know the feeling of there just not being enough hours in the day; meanwhile, we all...
Claire Moshenberg's picture
07/02/11
The Department of Labor held an important meeting this week in New York to discuss workplace flexibility policies for professionals. Here's a posting from the Huffington Post about why flexibility policies are vital for business and for workers and their families. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
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06/30/11
As students pack their bags and pick their college courses for the fall semester, a sense of uncertainty hangs in the air. Can students actually afford this? In hacking away at the budget, Washington is debating drastic cuts to the Pell Grant program, which helps the nation's lowest income students...
Aaron Smith's picture
06/30/11
The Family Equality Council, America’s foremost advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families, today issued a statement congratulating New Yorkers for achieving marriage equality. On behalf of the 1 million LGBT parents raising 2 million children in our country today, I want...
06/30/11
The constant drumbeat in the news about the federal deficit and its potentially dire consequences for our country has parents like me nervous. The last thing I want is to leave my two precious children with a crippling debt that will limit their future security and prosperity. I don’t have much...
Ashley Boyd's picture
06/29/11
This afternoon, we had a Facebook chat on the MomsRising.org Facebook page about strawberries, pesticides, methyl iodide, and more. Our expert for the chat, Kathryn Gilje, is the Co-Director for the Pesticide Action Network . We've rounded up all of the questions from the chat as well as Kathryn's...
Claire Moshenberg's picture
06/29/11
Some bad news out of Philadelphia Tuesday — Mayor Michael Nutter vetoed legislation that would have allowed every worker in the city to earn paid sick days. As Lonnie Golden, a professor of economics and labor studies at Penn State Abington, and I wrote in an op-ed earlier this month, a paid sick...
06/29/11
Summer’s here, which means warm days, summer camp, and my favorite, strawberries--a summertime snack staple for kids! But six months ago, a dangerous ingredient got added to the production chain for this previously nutritious and delicious snack: Methyl iodide. Methyl iodide is a cancer-causing...
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