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11/15/12

Ladies, we are having a very good year. This election, a record number of women—binders and binders full of them—ran for office, and…best of all… won . In the new Congress, we will have 20 female Senators, up from 17. We will have the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin, in Wisconsin. We will...

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Katrina Alcorn

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote

11/15/12

My home state is California, and we just successfully survived our own state version of the "fiscal cliff" when it comes to education. Here, they were called the "trigger cuts." If Proposition 30 -- essentially part of the June 30, 2012 budget passed by the legislature that needed the people's...

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Cynthia Liu

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget

11/14/12

They don’t call it the "cliff” for nothing. It’s the fiscal spot where a nation’s representatives can gather and cry doom. It’s the place -- if Washington is to be believed -- where, with a single leap into the Abyss of Sequestration, those representatives can end it all for the rest of us. In the...

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Mattea Kramer

Environmental Health

11/13/12

MomsRising is excited to offer everyone who submits a post to the Clean Air and Environmental Justice Blog Carnival the following thank you gifts: 1) Pacha's Pajamas soundtrack and eBook ($14.00 value). This family clean air conversation starter is a children's pop musical that inspires kids to be...

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Gloria Pan

11/13/12

As an immigrant rights advocate working on the A Wish for the Holidays campaign to highlight the impact of deportations and family separation on children, I've been spending a lot of time recently reaching out to children and youth around the country, encouraging them to share their thoughts with...

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Wida Amir

11/13/12

Thank heavens the campaign season is finally over. I was so done with the constant political commercials and their scary, sneering tone. “Vote for our guy, because the other guy is evil incarnate, and death and destruction will rain down from the skies if he is elected.” Yuck. My children were...

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Valerie Young

Podcast

11/10/12

What an election! There was a clear choice made on Election night and people, including women and moms, made a strong statement. Our nation voted to continue increasing access to affordable health care. Our nation voted to keep moving forward on fair pay for women. Our nation voted to not redefine...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Open Flexible Work

11/09/12

The Dismal Reality of Today New parents—let’s call them Julie and Brad—just had their first baby, a little girl they named Samantha. Julie was only able to take 6 weeks off from her job before her disability insurance and accumulated vacation pay ran out. A few months before their baby’s birth,...

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Carla Moquin

Food!

11/09/12

As the manager of a public school cafeteria, probably the biggest myth I encounter is that of the mushy and disgusting school food. The nasty school meal is assumed and treated like some rite of passage for kids often perpetuated by TV shows and movies. Nothing can be further from the truth at my...

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Julie Holbrook

Environmental Health Health Care

11/09/12

In this election week, I've been thinking about how we as individuals and moms can stay involved in the issues that matter to us. For me, one of those issues became intertwined with my professional life when I embarked on my current documentary, The Human Experiment , a film about the high-stakes...

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