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06/20/13
It turns out that the small things in life can make the biggest difference. For instance, with a quick share on your Facebook page, you might be the person responsible for getting your high-school friend the healthcare coverage that they desperately need for their family. This October 1, America's...
Felicia Burnett's picture
06/19/13
Happy Pollinator Week! We're celebrating here at PAN by calling attention to the plight of honey bees, and what can be done about it. What plight is that, you ask? Bees are actually in serious trouble, and our food and farming systems rely heavily on these vital pollinators. One in three bites of...
Kristin Schafer's picture
06/19/13
Apologies to heifers everywhere, but cows, well, they smell bad. So did the April 17th U.S. Senate vote that failed to advance common sense gun policy reform. Clearly some Senators were more concerned about special interests than they were about the fact that more than 90% of the American people...
Gloria Pan's picture
06/18/13
Co-written with Katherine Ullman. "My small contribution to feminism is leaving the office at 5:15 PM three times a week to pick up my daughter...and not hiding it." You might expect that these are the words of a working mother who, after too little sleep and too many people wondering "how she does...
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06/18/13
A Better Balance (ABB) and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a new report today, It Shouldn’t Be a Heavy Lift: Fair Treatment for Pregnant Workers , that outlines the factual and legal landscape of pregnancy discrimination in America and the shocking continued failure of some...
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06/18/13
By Cortelyou Kenney , National Women's Law Center Cross-posted from NWLC's blog Thirty-five years ago the Pregnancy Discrimination Act outlawed discrimination against pregnant workers. But still today, pregnant women across the country are being fired from their jobs, forced onto unpaid leave, or...
Liz Watson's picture
06/18/13
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, but we are still fighting for equal pay for equal work for all. Right now the wage gap is kind of like the faces on US money… only white men earn full dollars. Everyone else is left with pocket change. The graphic above shows the average wage...
Charlie Rose's picture
06/17/13
In what feels like another lifetime… It was summer and we decided to take the kids and my mom fishing. My son wanted to bring his new bike with the training wheels. As soon as his dad took it out of the truck, he was off. Happy to have a big place to ride, he had a smile from ear to ear. A little...
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06/17/13
In 2006, the mother of a teenage daughter involved in the juvenile justice system, in Hawaii, contacted a small, non-profit in Lake Charles, Louisiana, over 4000 miles away. The mother was seeking support from someone who could understand her plight in navigating the juvenile justice system and...
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06/17/13
Guns killed more preschoolers in one year than they did law-enforcement officers in the line of duty. Ask yourself if this is really what we as Americans meant by putting our children first? American companies manufacture enough bullets each year to fire 31 rounds into every one of our citizens...
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