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03/07/14

We hear a lot about how pesticides can undermine children's health. From derailing developing brains to bumping up the risk of childhood cancer, even low levels of exposure can wreak some serious havoc. It turns out dads should be concerned about how pesticides are affecting them too. Science shows...

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Kristin Schafer

03/07/14

By Meredith Kormes, Political Strategist, ACLU Missouri legislators have introduced more than a dozen bills intended to interfere with a woman’s access to abortion. Three bills (HB 1307/HB 1313/SB 519) that were recently debated in the Missouri House and Senate would block a woman needing an...

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Roger Baldwin

03/06/14

With state legislatures working their way through their 2014 sessions, attention in a number of states is focused on the actions states can take to further implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Although the name “Obamacare” focuses attention on the President, his administration, and the...

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Gene Lewit

03/06/14

When our daughter Alexis was born with multiple health issues and challenges, the doctors told us that we should prepare to say goodbye within a month. But Alexis, now eight years old, proved them wrong with her strength and will to live. She’s a wonder. She’s very social and wants to engage with...

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Catherine Rose

Health Care

03/06/14

In the buzz about Oscars, Emmys and ESPYs, let's not forget the award categories for individuals who wind up in the ER. A few years back, I won "The Bonehead" award for not just one, but two trips to the ER after cutting my finger, and then my thumb, in a series of misplaced efforts to slice bagels...

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Roberta Riley

Food!

03/05/14

I like to think I have a lot of influence over my three-year-old daughter’s choices, but it’s hard to compete with the likes of Joe Camel and friendly little M & M smiley faces. Like many parents, I worry that advertising—which has been shown to have a greater influence over youth than peer...

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Manel Kappagoda

Childcare & Early Education

03/05/14

President Obama released a $3.9 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2015 on Tuesday. The president’s budget contains initiatives that would be widely popular with the American people, according to opinion polls, including job training, education, and closing corporate tax loopholes. However,...

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Mattea Kramer

Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

03/05/14

Women and Retirement Security Blog Roundup Despite decades of social and economic gains, older American women are still twice as likely as elderly men to be living near or below the federal poverty line. Two-thirds of American women older than 65 have no retirement income other than Social Security...

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Courtney-Rose Dantus

Food!

03/05/14

During the 1,000 day window between a woman's pregnancy and her child's 2nd birthday, nutrition is critical. The right nutrition can have a life-changing impact on a child's ability to grow, learn and thrive. "Quite simply, there is no other period of a person’s life when nutrition has as profound...

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Migdalia Rivera

Paid Sick Days Family Economic Security

03/04/14

Hispanic Workers are the Least Likely to Have Access New analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that access to paid sick days is unequally distributed across the U.S. population, with substantial differences by race/ethnicity, occupation, earnings, and employment status...

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