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01/23/13

Last Monday marked the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which left twenty very young children and six adult employees of Sandy Hook Elementary School dead. Since that time, we have grieved with parents over the unimaginable loss of their children--both in the soft...

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Kelly Singleton Dalton

Paid Family Leave Health Care

01/21/13

When we observe the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, we are celebrating a major milestone in women’s health, equality, and status as citizens. At its core, Roe stands for women’s right to make important decisions about our own lives. This momentous Supreme Court decision protects both...

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Rachel Roth

Environmental Health Health Care

01/18/13

President Obama faces a profound decision as he considers who will step into Lisa Jackson's shoes. Over the past decade, EPA has become a lightening rod for the heated partisan debate about the size and role of government. The agency has also come to serve as a rhetorical punching bag for those...

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Kristin Schafer

01/17/13

I'm writing to you from my kitchen table while my kids do their homework, appreciating just that they are here. Safe. And I can't help but think of the empty spots on at the tables in families who've lost their children to gun violence, like those recently at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. It's...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

01/17/13

There was nothing ambiguous about how I was raised. What my parents expected of me was crystal clear, as were the expectations of my teachers and my church. Always serve yourself last, my mother said. Make sure, wherever you are, that everyone else is taken care of before you think of yourself. Don...

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Valerie Young

Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

01/15/13

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals gave pregnant women and advocates a very disappointing decision last week. Peggy Young asked for light duty during her pregnancy, at her doctor’s recommendation. Her employer, UPS, denied her request even though it had a policy of giving light duty to a lot of...

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Elizabeth Gedmark

01/15/13

Have 10 seconds to spare? Today, moms are at the Danbury, CT, Walmart--just minutes away from Sandy Hook Elementary--urging Walmart to keep its promise to stop selling assault weapons . And these moms need a little telephone back up, which you can provide from the comfort of your home or office...

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Gloria Pan

Open Flexible Work

01/15/13

By Emily Martin and Liz Watson , National Women’s Law Center Cross-posted from NWLC’s blog, Womenstake . Peggy Young was a UPS truck driver. When employees at her jobsite needed changes to their job duties because they had a disability, or an on-the-job injury, or even a D.U.I. conviction that...

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Liz Watson

Environmental Health

01/15/13

I’ve been on the couch for a week battling bronchitis ( Shout out to paid sick days! ). Requisites for voice-less, groggy couch life? Equal parts ginger tea and beauty blogs. Wicked winter sickness demands guilty pleasures, and beauty blogs are mine. Beauty writers and editors exist in a magical...

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Claire Moshenberg

01/15/13

Tea Party and MoveOn activists joining voices to reinstate Glass-Steagall? That's not far-fetched... this is common ground. I admit that I had butterflies in my stomach last week when I thought about co-hosting a Living Room Conversation about crony capitalism with my friend Mark Meckler, who is a...

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