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07/03/12

Fireworks. Barbeques. Antibiotics? When it comes to Fourth of July traditions, one of these things is not like the others. Unfortunately, antibiotics can crash your summer barbeque depending on the kind of meat you purchase. Antibiotics have become so rampant in meat that we're starting to see a...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

07/03/12

We are still excited about the Supreme Court Ruling last week that upholds the Affordable Care Act! And we're still laughing about the great celebration images that have been circulating since the announcement. Here are a few of our favorites--what are we missing? THESE FIVE PEOPLE just saved...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Food!

07/02/12

Imagine for a moment if antibiotics didn’t work. Unimaginable, right? Unfortunately, it’s starting to happen--and it's even highlighted in today's Washington Post . According to t he Centers for Disease Contro l, approximately two million people acquire bacterial infections in U.S. hospitals each...

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Sarah Francis

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

07/02/12

Cross-posted from The Huffington Post . By now, you’ve probably either read or read about Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic essay in which she recounts from personal experience why she believes women cannot “have it all” and calls on all of us to recognize the conditions that must change to make it...

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Katrina Alcorn

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

07/02/12

By Dawn Averitt Bridge Founder and Chair, The Well Project June 28 is a day I’ll never forget: the anniversary of my HIV diagnosis. It was 1988. I was only 19, and didn’t know a single other HIV-positive woman. Misinformation and fear dominated the public conversation on AIDS; everyone knew AIDS...

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Dawn Averitt

Environmental Health

07/02/12

MomsRising today launched six-figure TV ad buys in Ohio and Pennsylvania to express gratitude for Senator Sherrod Brown’s and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey’s courageous votes to turn back a proposal to block EPA’s life-saving limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution. “Thanks to the...

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Gloria Pan

Family Economic Security

06/30/12

You spoke up, and Congress listened. A strong bipartisan majority in Congress just passed a bill that prevents student loan interest rates from doubling for more than 7.4 million low- and middle-income students and their families on July 1. Without action, the increased interest rate for...

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Aaron Smith

Health Care

06/28/12

I sat on the edge of my seat, with butterflies in my stomach, waiting this morning for the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. Why? I, like millions of other moms, have family members with pre-existing conditions who've already been helped by the consumer protections in the...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care

06/28/12

“I’m so overjoyed and relieved! I will be able to sleep soundly for the first time in months now knowing that the Supreme Court won’t allow the insurance industry to put a cap on my daughter’s healthcare or punish her for a pre-existing condition that is no fault of her own.” This is how MomsRising...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Food!

06/28/12

Today 1 in 3 children is overweight or obese, but a report released by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation this week indicates that we could take a significant step toward preventing the epidemic by setting national standards for the snacks and beverages sold in schools...

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