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Environmental Health

01/26/15

A Battle is Brewing Over EPA's Proposed Smog Standards

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Lisa Garcia

Health Care

01/26/15

Dumped touches a nerve from page one. It touches on a subject that all women know too well yet is too complicated and painful to articulate: the mourning, and sometimes redemption, that comes from being dumped – or in Facebook-speak, “unfriended” -- by a sister-like friend. The anthology is very...

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Elisa Batista

Politics & Policy

01/26/15

True story: I once set up a coffee between two friends that testified against each other in the heated marriage equality debate in New Hampshire. Also true: while they ended up friends, initially, I encountered a barrier increasingly common in American politics. The public is so divided...

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Elisa Batista

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

01/26/15

The voters and the President are all on board about raising the wage. Now we need YOU to convince Congress!!

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Elyssa Schmier

Food!

01/26/15

So what does a soda in a kid's meal have to do with faith? Thanks to the powerful advocacy of MomsRising, Wendy's announced last week that soda would no longer be an option in the meals that it markets to children. This is good because sweetened drinks (like soda) are the largest source of added...

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Joshua DuBois

Food!

01/25/15

Weekly I prepare real food meals for my family at least 6 nights of the week. I try to keep our weekly grocery bill at $150 which is very doable when following these tips. REAL FOOD Money Saving Tips Menu Plan – when making a menu plan you are not going into the grocery store and just picking up...

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Trina O'Boyle

Tweetchat

Food!

01/23/15

With more and more families eating out, children are getting about 25% of their alloted calories from fast-food chains and restaurants. Given the role that they play, parents are seeking healthier kids' meal options. It's critical in the fight against childhood obesity. Join #FoodFri on Friday,...

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Migdalia Rivera

Family Economic Security Food!

01/23/15

For-profit corporation Medolac has announced the cessation of their plans to launch a Mothers Milk Co-op in Detroit, Michigan in response to breastfeeding activists’ demands for public accountability. As a Clinton Global Initiative to increase breastfeeding and economic empowerment in Detroit,...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Health Care Open Flexible Work

01/23/15

A lot. A 2013 Pew Research study found that nearly half of all moms polled said, “that their ideal situation would be to work part time.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise. When you add a 40-hour workweek to the demands of being a primary caregiver, the dual (triple? quadruple?) roles can leave you...

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Jeannina Perez

Paid Family Leave

01/22/15

This February marks the twenty-second anniversary of President Clinton signing into law the Family and Medical Leave Act. More widely recognized by its abbreviation, the FMLA provides a bevy of protections to employees who are – or have family members who are – suffering from an illness. Perhaps...

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