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10/24/12
The UC Berkeley School of Public Health , in collaboration with the March of Dimes , is developing educational materials to help pregnant working women make decisions about taking maternity leave. Given that 50% of the workforce is comprised of women and that a large majority will get pregnant...
Elaine Kurtovich's picture
10/24/12
By Wendy Lazarus and Laurie Lipper Co-Presidents of The Children’s Partnership The Presidential Debates missed focusing on the job held by 155 million Americans: parenting. Here are five questions that the candidates should have answered—and still can. The Presidential Debates are over. And despite...
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10/24/12
On Monday the American Academy of Pediatrics weighed in on organic food. They found that "an organic diet reduces children's exposure to pesticides," and highlighted studies linking pesticides with many of the childhood health harms included in PAN's recent report, A Generation in Jeopardy ...
Kristin Schafer's picture
10/24/12
The 2012 presidential election will be over in less than two weeks. We don't want to wake up on Wednesday, November 7th wondering if we could have done more to get out the Mom Vote in this election. So for the next 13 short days we're working practically around the clock to make sure moms' voices (...
Kristin's picture
10/24/12
By Saru Jayaraman and Joann Lo Big Food companies and their lobbying groups have lied to us many times. They convinced Congress to include tomato paste on pizzas as a vegetable . They say we need industrial, chemical-laden agriculture to feed the world (check out Anna Lappé’s new video Food...
Saru Jayaraman's picture
10/24/12
I've been writing a lot about Halloween this month, and I've learned something important: Kid Halloween trumps grownup Halloween. I grew up in a Halloween-loving household, where we carved pumpkins every year, roasted pumpkin seeds, and made caramel apples. Those traditions disappeared as an adult...
Claire Moshenberg's picture
10/24/12
I love this time of year because a whole bunch of my favorite things all come together: Pumpkin spice lattes, Halloween, cooler weather, elections and… electoral pumpkins! What the what? What is an electoral pumpkin? A weird band? A polling firm? No – electoral pumpkins are my go-to election season...
Ruth Martin's picture
10/24/12
In 2011, I taught two summer courses, directed a federal budget research organization and paid taxes. Taxes are the dues I pay for living in a democracy. Like you, I contribute at the local, state, and federal levels. I want us to fall a little bit in love with the federal budget and there’s no...
Jo Comerford's picture
10/24/12
No one is more interested in breast cancer than I. My mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 10 years old and died of a recurrence seven years later. Now, more than twenty years after my mother's death, my sister and I are both nearing the age of my mother's first diagnosis and...
Ashley Boyd's picture
10/23/12
(A version of this story originally appeared in Birth to Thrive Online .) Last year Congress failed to agree on how to cut the federal budget deficit and that means 1,400 children could lose their spots in Head Start programs around Washington state this January, a new report says. The reasons for...
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