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12/03/11

We all know that moms make great elected leaders, but now hear it from those who know first-hand: Women make up 17 percent of Congress and 24 percent of state legislatures. That puts the US at 69th in the world in the number of women in elected office. The 2012 Project is a national campaign to...

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Stacy Mason

Environmental Health

12/02/11

With Sonya Lunder There may be 12 days of Christmas and eight days of Hannukah, but EWG has boiled the shopping hullabaloo down to the number five: five ways to detox your holiday shopping. And, no, our list does not include a golden ring. (We're not keen on jewelry for kids.) Finding great gifts...

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Lisa Frack

12/02/11

Moms and dads are working hard to make this a joyous holiday season and year. Every cent counts when it comes to the basics, like putting food on the table and buying winter clothes and shoes for growing kids. Unfortunately, our budgets are possibly about to get even tighter. Ouch! If Congress...

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Monifa Bandele

12/02/11

It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop. Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong. For the larger part of human history, for...

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Nick Hanauer

12/01/11

The Food Revolution has recently been reporting on the disappointing news that Congress has overruled some of the new school lunch standards recommended earlier in the year by the USDA. Lobbied heavily by the food industry, Congress changed the rules at the last minute to keep salty, highly...

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Jamie Oliver

12/01/11

Joyce has 11 children. Mary says this casually, as if it’s commonplace. And in her experience as a midwife in Uganda, it is. For women in her community, contraception is largely out of reach. Employment is scarce, so families make ends meet by selling crops from their small gardens. They cannot...

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Elisha Dunn-Georgiou

12/01/11

Editor's note: This post is part of the HERVotes Coalition , which is comprised of women’s organizations representing millions, to counter the attacks on women’s economic and health security. The top priorities of HERvotes are to educate and engage more women to use their voices and their votes to...

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Kim Gandy

Health Care

11/30/11

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and the theme of this year’s observance is “We Listen. We Care.” As I wrote in my last post, Compassion & Choices listens to those facing life’s end, and our response is guided by our principles for patient-centered care . The third key...

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Barbara Coombs Lee

11/30/11

by Amanda Lo The Woodrow Wilson Center and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) brought together a panel of four male leaders to discuss the possible roles men can play in combating gender-based violence. The event, Male Leaders Speak: Critical Strategies for Combatting Gender...

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Caroline Dobuzinskis

Health Care

11/30/11

Since when is 14,000 no different than 5,000? When the U.S. Treasury Department estimates the affordability of a family's health insurance. If it goes uncorrected, their fuzzy math may deny affordable health coverage to 270,000 Californians--122,000 of whom are children. While premiums continue to...

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