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08/16/11

When I was a kid, I thought I was a lot tougher than I was. My mother taught me that if you acted like you could handle yourself, then you could. But sometimes that meant enduring unnecessary pain. My family could not afford to see a doctor and had to confront health needs alone. Several families...

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US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

08/16/11

I never thought much about mold , until my first child was born. We came home from the hospital and discovered greenish black mold covered the wall behind the family bed. With a three-day-old baby in my arms, I wasn’t wasting time with testing. My husband and I called the landlord, told him he...

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Janelle Sorensen

Health Care Open Flexible Work

08/16/11

By Galen Sherwin, ACLU Women's Rights Project, and Rebecca T. Wallace, ACLU of Colorado Imagine you've recently come back to work after maternity leave and you're using every last minute of your break time to pump breast milk to feed your baby at home. You just need a little help from your employer...

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Roger Baldwin

Environmental Health Health Care

08/16/11

The first day of school is around the corner, and back-to-school shopping season is in full swing. Kids spend most of their crucial developmental years in school buildings, interacting with their school supplies non-stop throughout the day, which makes picking the healthiest, least toxic supplies...

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Claire Moshenberg

08/16/11

Earlier this year, MomsRising member Heather Burgbacher wrote to us to share her story about the discrimination she was facing after seeking accommodations to express breastmilk while working at a public charter school in Colorado. Heather shared her distress that after years of receiving excellent...

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Ashley Boyd

08/15/11

By Shelby Knox August 15, 2011 Women's Media Center's twenty-something commentator appreciates the HBO documentary, but also wishes for a deeper treatment of WMC Cofounder Gloria Steinem’s philosophy and activism. Gloria Steinem at a news conference in 1969; Jason Laure/HBO Near the end of Gloria:...

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Women's Media Center

Environmental Health Health Care

08/15/11

Sandra Steingraber is my hero. Her book, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood , chronicles her own pregnancy from both a scientific and personal perspective. It’s beautifully and lovingly written—yet for a pregnant woman it’s also a tough read. Trained as a biologist, Steingraber...

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Anna Fahey

08/15/11

“Have there been times in the past twelve months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?” About one in four households with children answered “yes” to that question last year, according to a recent report from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). In 21...

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Hannah Matthews

08/15/11

Stuck for a whiz-bang college essay? Buy an experience! One more way commercialized culture robs kids of authenticity, creativity, and self-motivation.

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Susan Linn

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education

08/12/11

Only one woman on the "Super Committee"? Ouch! Here's the math: Women are 50.7% of our population, only 17% of Congress, and an appallingly low 8% of the Super Committee . This lack of representation on the debt ceiling Super Committee which is charged with cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal...

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