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02/28/13

" UPDATE (2/28/2013): VICTORY! The House of Representatives decided to stand with students, Native Americans, immigrants, and the LGBT community and passed the Senate inclusive #VAWA in a vote 286-138!" via Feminist Majority Foundation. At last the House will vote on the Violence Against Women Act...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

02/27/13

This story originally appeared in the Carolyn Edgar blog . There’s been a lot of talk in the media lately about women in the workplace. From Anne-Marie Slaughter’s complaining about not “having it all,” to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg exhorting women to “lean in” to their careers (translation: suck...

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Carolyn Edgar

Health Care

02/27/13

This week, my five-year-old son finally mastered the art of making his own morning cereal. It’s a big milestone but honestly, but I'll save the real celebration for when he can do it without spilling milk everywhere. It’s one thing to start something but another to finish the job without leaving a...

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Ashley Boyd

02/27/13

It seems that the end of February has become my new fundraising time for Planned Parenthood. Its time to get out your check books and make a donation of any size to a Planned Parenthood near you. Tomorrow (actually February 29) will be a year since my mother passed away from a sudden stroke in her...

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Renee Blanchard

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health

02/27/13

By now you've heard that federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you've heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. Sequestration means across-the-board spending cuts, and this sequester was written into law in August 2011 as a kind of terrible incentive for lawmakers...

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Mattea Kramer

02/27/13

We can't wait to see you this Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott Hotel , located at 333 Adams Street in downtown Brooklyn. We've got lots of great people coming out and all we need is YOU! Here is the Food Power agenda! Don't forget to register - http://action.momsrising.org/...

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Monifa Bandele

Environmental Health Family Economic Security

02/27/13

Sequestration is both an ugly word and hard to explain. As a budget wonk, I like to use this metaphor: It’s as if the American people are being squeezed into the back of a dilapidated Chevy pick-up. Careening down a dirt road, we’re headed for a brick wall. Try as we might to wake up from this...

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Jo Comerford

02/26/13

Just imagine they’re all four years old.” Someone once told me to try that when I was nervous about speaking in front of a group. Maybe you’ve heard it too: Look out at the audience and imagine them all as… preschoolers. Clearly, whoever coined that little quip had not spent a lot of time around...

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Ann Hedreen

Health Care Blog Carnivals

02/26/13

Good news arrived earlier this month in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on breastfeeding rates. The CDC found that from 2000 to 2008, the percentage of women overall who initiated breastfeeding increased from 70.3 percent to 74.6 percent. During the same time...

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Diana N. Derige

02/26/13

(Photo courtesy of the Rio Arriba Community Health Council blog.) Ever since New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez said she would support making Medicaid accessible to more uninsured New Mexicans, healthcare workers and advocates working in communities around the state have been identifying ways in...

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