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03/04/11

On Sunday, the Boston Globe Magazine published an article called “The Miracle of Polly McCabe.” Polly McCabe is an alternative public school for pregnant and parenting teens in New Haven. It has approximately 26 students at any given time, and is able to offer them special services like “door-to-door bus service, on-site child care, classes on child rearing, in-school visits from prenatal experts, intensive support from case workers, and even home visits from teachers if they go on bed rest.”

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Stephanie Drahan

03/04/11

The budget battles in Wisconsin, Indiana, and across the Midwestern United States have inspired a barrage of commentary about what the successful passage of the proposed state laws to strip public sector unions of their collective bargaining power would mean for public sector workers ( not good ),...

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Clark Jennifer

Childcare & Early Education

03/04/11

We flatter ourselves with the belief that we choose a childrearing approach that will best suit our children, when in truth we choose an approach that best suits ourselves. .....We give children what we needed when we were children and never got.

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Joe Newman

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education

03/04/11

Press your Senators to oppose HR 1 and keep funding for Head Start, IDEA (special ed funding), STEM education, and women's and children's health care paid for and in the budget. Click on our K12NN/POPVOX.com action and make your voice heard before March 18, 2011!

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Cynthia Liu

Paid Family Leave Health Care

03/03/11

Just the other day, two of us were on the phone celebrating our recent victories for mothers who choose to breastfeed. We had a happy conversation about how millions of mothers recently were granted the right to clean spaces to pump milk at work and reasonable breaks to do so, and how all mothers...

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Ashley Boyd

03/03/11

Carol Ann and Laura Stutte owned a beautiful home on a beautiful piece of land in rural Tennessee. Together for 16 years with a grown daughter, this family had developed a community for themselves in the heart of a very, very red state. Their next-door neighbor began threatening them, repeatedly...

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Heather Cronk

Health Care

03/02/11

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has already had a huge impact on the health of millions of Americans. While most of the attention has been paid on the ACA’s provisions that expand access to health care, the law also opens doors for many more Americans in underserved communities...

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Ellen Wu

Health Care

03/02/11

To mothers of children without health insurance, I say ask your loved ones where they receive care. There is a good chance that if the clinic is small enough, you'll be able to obtain healthcare coverage there. I am undocumented - I have been waiting 13 years for immigration to process my...

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Alicia C

Health Care

03/02/11

A madres con hijos sin seguro médico, yo les aconsejaría que le pregunten a sus conocidos donde ellos están recibiendo atención médica. Si la clínica es suficientemente pequeña, hay una gran posibilidad de que puedan conseguir cobertura médica en la misma. Yo soy indocumentada - he estado esperando...

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Alicia C

Health Care

03/02/11

It is important for all of us to have healthcare coverage: children, adolescents, adults, seniors, U.S. residents and non-residents alike. Sometimes I hear someone say, “I sought medical coverage but they only gave me emergency care.” Why? “Because my children were not born in this country. It is a...

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