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08/06/12

By Dana Kennedy, Health Policy Intern from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative August is a big month for health care! As of August 1st insurers were required to cover certain women's preventive services without cost-sharing (like co-pays) in new plans, and start covering them when current plans...

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Ashley Wheeland

Podcast

08/05/12

Olympic crafts are fun, easy and everywhere. Simple (but medal worthy) crafts are a great way to spread the Olympic spirit. You can hear all about these Olympic crafts, as well as listen to Olympians, and sports experts on MomsRising Radio with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. Find the podcast here: http...

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Sarah Francis

Food!

08/03/12

It’s hot out! With heat records falling across the U.S. every day, we’re a nation in pursuit of cool . So when it comes to meal time this summer, forgoing the stove and dining on a hearty salad with extra pitchers of lemonade might be the norm. But there is far more to this subject of ‘cool foods’...

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Diana Donlon

08/03/12

FORT WORTH, TX -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that Waterstone Mortgage Corporation, based in Wisconsin, has agreed to pay $27,000 to settle allegations that Cadence Lending, formerly owned by Waterstone, and two employees refused financing for the...

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Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña

08/02/12

Having babies. Over 80% of U.S. women have babies by the time they’re 44 years old, and three-quarters of moms are now in the labor force, but our family economic security policies are still stuck in the dark ages. That’s right: Even though 177 other countries have some form of paid family leave...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

08/02/12

I’ve been reading a lot of parenting books on discipline lately. (Don't ask!) Across all of the methods, one piece of advice is the same – praise your child when they do the right thing. This rule doesn’t apply just to four-year-olds – we all like to get noticed and praised when we do the right...

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Ashley Boyd

08/02/12

Did you hear the news? We scored BIG last week! The National Day of Action calling on Members of Congress to sponsor the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012 was a HUGE success. MomsRising and our partners rallied over 240k people to sign letters to their U.S. House members to support the Fair Minimum...

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Monifa Bandele

Health Care Food!

08/01/12

Shade your eyes, stretch high-up on your tippy-toes, and look west… A bit farther…past your back yard… Up and over the Rocky Mountains... Past Las Vegas glimmer… Over to the massive, distant, piece of land geographically sandwiched between the Sierra Nevada Mountain range and the Pacific Ocean...

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Kristi Marsh

Health Care

08/01/12

By Ashley Mayo, Strategic Engagement Fellow at the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, being a woman just got easier. Today, a new provision of the law requiring insurers to provide women's preventive services without a copay takes effect. For a quick look at what...

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Ashley Wheeland

Health Care Blog Carnivals

08/01/12

It's almost too good to believe, but it's true! And all the better because we fought hard for it -- first through the Affordable Care Act's passage, and then when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops objected to free coverage of contraceptives through women's employer-provided health insurance...

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