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05/05/11

Cue the music ; the gauzy, soft-focus ads ; and the focus-grouped fridge magnets : Coca-Cola turns 125 this week. Never a slouch in the self-promotion department, high-flying CEO Muhtar Kent had himself serenaded by a red-shirted “Coca-Cola 125th Anniversary Young People’s Chorus” to celebrate...

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Mike Jacobson

Health Care

05/04/11

The challenges faced by nursing mothers at work, especially those in hourly, lower-wage positions, are very real. We know that 77 percent of mothers in retail or lower-wage jobs give up breastfeeding after returning to work . This is because continuing to breastfeed at work is so difficult--...

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Yvonne Siu

Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

05/04/11

Crossposted from WorkingMother.com One of the most important things a workplace can do to support working mothers and mothers-to-be is to provide for flexibility. In my last few blogs for WorkingMother.com I’ve mentioned the difficulties I’ve faced while working full-time and being pregnant. Early...

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Michelle Noehren

Environmental Health

05/04/11

As a writer and activist, I subscribe to numerous newsletters and have given to countless causes. Here is a sample of what was in my inbox on Tuesday, May 3: "Each year, the first week of May is Teacher Appreciation Week — a chance to say thank you to the teachers who work long hours helping our...

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Elisa Batista

Paid Family Leave Health Care

05/03/11

Each Mother’s Day, I celebrate the two most miraculous, deliriously happy days of my life – the days I gave birth to my two children. What I counted on during my birth experiences: health care, a safe and sanitary environment, and trained birth personnel. What would have never occurred to me, a...

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Caty Borum Chattoo

05/02/11

Every employer pays for performance..right? Only believe it when your employer can prove it. There’s not a boss on this earth who doesn’t think he pays for performance. But ‘performance’ is often much more of a judgment call than one might think – even for jobs with quantifiable results, such as...

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Joanne Cleaver

05/02/11

Below is the fourth installment in a five-part series, Too Little to Save , in which the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) highlights a family and describes their struggles with foreclosure. Ms. Suarez is a single mom who has a toddler and two ten-year-old twins, one boy and one girl. They live in...

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Janis Bowdler

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

05/02/11

I just put together a very simple survey about working parents and stress. It takes only 3 minutes to complete. If you're a parent and you work to help support your family, here's what I'd like you to do: 1. Take the survey . 2. Share the survey (or this post) with everyone you know. 3. Come back...

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Katrina Alcorn

Environmental Health

05/02/11

This piece was cross-posted at the Moms Clean Air Force. I was recently thinking about Mother’s Day gifts from my sons over the years. Those wonderfully awkward clay sculptures they brought home from grade school; the colored drawin gs and the poems they write. And when they got a bit older, and...

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