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02/04/13

In 1990, when I lived in Los Angeles, my 4-year old son and I were both poisoned by the aerial spraying of malathion. The state had sprayed vast residential areas in an attempt to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly—a devastating pest that threatened California’s multi-billion dollar agriculture...

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Ruth Berlin

Immigration

02/03/13

What happens in Vegas shouldn't always stay in Vegas. Earlier this week, in a crammed high school basketball stadium in Las Vegas, I heard President Obama speak about the need to finally, truly fix our broken immigration system so that it's fair and also brings economic strength to our entire...

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Mary Olivella

Immigration

02/02/13

A few years ago I saw a video that shocked me : Two young children crying, alone in a car, reaching out for their mother who'd been taken away by armed deputies wearing ski masks after being stopped for a minor traffic violation. The images haven't left me. A nightmare, right? Never in America?...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education

02/01/13

As a parent of a 21 month old, I have found myself thinking about childcare and school options a lot lately. Earlier this week, as I watched the inauguration of Barack Obama with my son, I thought about how great it would be if early childhood education was something that the administration could...

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Diana Limongi

02/01/13

Editor's note from the Say Ahhh! blog: Happy Super Bowl Weekend! As diehard Say Ahhh! fans know, that means its time for our annual Super Blog-Off. This year, we’ve asked the blogging teams to face off on which state has done more to make the promise of the Affordable Care Act a reality for its...

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Kristen Golden Testa

Food!

02/01/13

Let’s be clear: I support giving children choices and empowering them to make good ones. Those are crucial life skills that need to be reinforced at home and at school. That being said, the adults at home and at school have a responsibility to make sure that the choices presented are all healthy...

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Kate Uslan

Immigration

02/01/13

For my grandmother, Obdulia Olivella, moving was a part of life. She was born in El Salvador and moved to Panama as a young woman to help her U.S.-born husband start a business. Over the next couple of decades, they would move with four children in tow to the United States, back to Panama, then to...

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Mary Olivella

Immigration

01/31/13

As I listened to the barrage of news this week on immigration, I kept thinking about an 8-year-old girl I met in Georgia in 2011. Melanie is a star student and Girl Scout. Her mother bravely spoke to a group of women delegates about how Georgia's treatment of immigrants was affecting families...

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Mary Olivella

01/31/13

If I hear once more that the reason for the wage gap is that women don't negotiate, I may just blow a gasket. Linda Babcock herself, the author of the studies that gave rise to the "women don't ask" industry, has shown that women don't negotiate for a very simple reason: they sense—correctly—that...

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Joan C. Williams

01/31/13

Head Start works. A new study is sparking a debate about just how well the early education program works because it shows Head Start’s impact fades out during the first four grades of elementary school. Now some analysts are using the findings as political leverage to suggest overhauling the...

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