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02/05/10

Originally Posted on the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Blog When I first considered testifying before today's Senate hearings on public exposures to toxic chemicals , I wasn’t sure if I could handle the drastic disruption to my life. It meant taking several days off work and flying from Seattle...

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Molly Gray

Environmental Health

02/05/10

The Mind, Disrupted project found toxins in the bodies of those with learning and developmental disabilities. Senators got an ear-full this week from advocates calling for laws to protect children from dangerous chemicals.

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health

02/04/10

A must-see video for anyone who cares about the health and development of children.

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Janelle Sorensen

02/04/10

Moms, The economic crisis we are in started one household at a time, with lenders who figured out that they could trick families with credit products that no one could read and that prevent any basic comparison shopping. And now the crisis is taking down American families, one household at a time,...

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Elizabeth Warren

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

02/04/10

There has been a lot of food safety news and food safety talk recently, but very little meaningful action has taken place to protect consumers. Awareness of food safety is important and we appreciate it, but if no action takes place then its value is lost. Recently, we wrote about the anniversary...

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Donna Rosenbaum

02/04/10

In the past year, while private insurance has become less available and more expensive and families faced the most difficult economic times since the Great Depression, the renewed CHIP program and Medicaid have offered a vital lifeline to America's children. Thanks to the strong resolve of national and state leaders, many of our children have been sheltered from this economic storm.

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Jocelyn Guyer

02/02/10

Is there a mom out there who doesn't multi-task? I, for one, can often be found in the kitchen washing the dishes, answering questions about math homework, and participating in a conference call. So, it really gets my goat when members of Congress say things like, "We need to focus on jobs and the...

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Donna Norton

02/02/10

A great deal of our popular discourse on “successful women’’ is centered around the alleged question of “work-life balance.’’ Can a professional woman, at the top of her career, really, ever, "have it all?’’ For many, the words “Rhodes Scholar” represent Success with a capital ‘’S.’’ As a woman –...

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Ann Olivarius

02/01/10

President Obama made an important promise last week during the State of the Union address: "We are going to crack down on violations of equal pay laws - so that women get equal pay for an equal day's work." Now it's time for us to turn this promise into reality. Thanks to President Obama's...

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Ariana Kelly

01/30/10

As we approach the one-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Children’s Health Insurance Program reauthorization, think of all those babies born in the last year who were given a better chance at living a healthy life due to this important legislation. I applaud Governor Culver and other state lawmakers who had the courage and leadership to use CHIP and Medicaid funding to increase their investments in families struggling to weather the current economic storm.

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