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Food Marketing Harms Kids. What Can Parents Do to Protect Their Children? #FoodFri #Tweetchat

05/28/15
Kids are bombarded by food marketing every single day. The food, beverage, and fast food industry spend almost 2 billion dollars a year marketing to our children. What can parents do to protect their children? Join us on Friday, May 29th from 1 pm to 2 pm Eastern for our #FoodFri tweetchat to chat...
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Migdalia Rivera
Food!

Host a Screening of the Film Cafeteria Man!

05/27/15
Hosting a film screening is a great way to get together with friends, have some fun, see a great film, and talk about the issues that matter to you. It’s that easy. We’re sharing some helpful tips below, but feel free to “wing it” and hold a party that works best for you. Information below: Simple...
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Karen Showalter
Food!

Good Food Force Update: Healthy school snacks, family garden tips and holiday recipe share

05/26/15
Happy Friday! We're sharing a juicy update on junk food fundraisers, and the latest installment in our "Year in the Family Garden" series. Please read and share, and have a great holiday weekend! 1. HOT LINE Latest on Healthy School Snacks in Ohio and Michigan The Smart Snacks in School rule went...
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Karen Showalter
Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

Dadvocacy!

05/26/15
It's a revelation that hits every parent at some point in the Goldfish-cracker and Cheerio years: I cannot protect her from everything. For me, it was in the bathroom of a Greek restaurant in Greenville, South Carolina, when she looked up at me from her toilet perch and began a conversation that...
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Simon Greer
Environmental Health

National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum applauds Governor Cuomo's steps to strengthen nail salon worker protections

05/26/15
Gov. Cuomo introduced two new pieces of legislation to increase the State’s ability to crack down on unsafe and exploitative working conditions in nail salons and expand access to licensing for nail salon workers, and announced new regulations addressing safety and wage and hour issues in nail...
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Miriam Yeung
Health Care

Covered Through a Parent's Plan? Your Prenatal Services are Covered

05/26/15
The Obama Administration gave expectant moms a belated mother’s day gift. Guidance issued recently clarifies that new insurance plans must cover preventive prenatal services without cost sharing for all dependents — including expectant mothers enrolled on a parent’s plan. This is great news for...
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Dania Palanker
Podcast

#Radio This Week: Women Win, America Wins

05/26/15
This week the radio show covers how powerful women are boosting our families and our economy. Check out our amazing guests! It's a can't-miss episode: *Special guests include: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ; Monifa Bandele, MomsRising; Washington State Senator Pramila Jayapal ; and Vivien Labaton...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Health Care

I Know All About The ACA’s Breastfeeding Benefit, and I Couldn’t Get Services Covered

05/26/15
Last week, the National Women’s Law Center issued the third report in a series examining insurance plan compliance with the Affordable Care Act, State of Breastfeeding Coverage: Health Plan Violations of the Affordable Care Act . Previous reports on women’s health coverage and birth control...
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Anna Benyo
Health Care

Quick signature: Tell NC lawmakers to extend health coverage to uninsured North Carolinians!

05/26/15
Lives are on the line, but Governor McCrory and our state lawmakers are playing politics while time is running out for some North Carolinians. Tragically, it’s estimated that over 1,000 North Carolinians will die each year as a result of not having health insurance. Under the Affordable Care Act,...
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Felicia Burnett
Family Economic Security Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave

A Working Mom Shaping the Lives of Future Generations

05/23/15
"It’s always hard for Maui kids to go to the mainland for school—especially that far. It’s a big change, geographically and culturally, and these students had the additional challenges that women in math and science face. I ended up communicating with both of them a lot for the four years they were going to school—counseling them to basically hang in there. And they did!"
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Shay Chan Hodges

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