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03/02/12

What year is it!? The growing drumbeat of attacks on full coverage for crucial contraceptive health care for women continues despite the fact that 99% of women in our nation have used birth control at some point in their lives. [1] First, an all male panel of "expert" witnesses on birth control...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education

03/01/12

Recent headlines related to child care policy have been discouraging to say the least. In California, proposed budget cuts threaten to cut off child care assistance for 62,000 children. Florida proposes to save money by providing child care subsidies only for children under age 5, leaving young...

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Hannah Matthews

Health Care Blog Carnivals

03/01/12

Late last year, while official Washington and its pundits were busy deconstructing the failure of the "Super Committee" and the rest of us were planning our holiday celebrations, the National Center for Health Statistics quietly released its 2011 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. Among...

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Gene Lewit

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

03/01/12

co-written with Rachel Dempsey In the last post, we talked about the problem of pregnancy discrimination against women in hourly jobs - cases where mothers were refused simple accommodations that would help them have healthy pregnancies. Discrimination against pregnant women and mothers is a huge...

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Joan C. Williams

Environmental Health

03/01/12

Universal Studio’s animated film The Lorax opens in theaters on March 2. And environmentalists and people who care about children are already outraged—with good reason. For more than forty years, the Dr. Seuss classic has been a clarion call for reducing consumption and promoting conservation. But the book’s eloquent environmental message is being crushed by the film’s slew of corporate cross-promotions.

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Susan Linn

03/01/12

by Ashley Hernandez Communications & Strategic Partnerships Coordinator Healthy Child Healthy World What if you could host a party that would change the world? National Healthy Child Party Week is a week-long celebration, in which parents will gather at kitchen tables, parks, offices and school...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health

02/29/12

We all know that sodas are full of sugar, buy you may be surprised (and grossed out) to find that a chemical called brominated vegetable oil (BVO), a patented flame retardant, has also been added to approximately 10% of sodas for decades in North America. No need to worry about your soda catching...

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Judy Levin

Childcare & Early Education

02/29/12

Each year on March 8, women from around the globe celebrate International Women’s Day. In some countries, it is even a national holiday. But here in the US, this important day is often overlooked. Well not this year! Beginning on March 1, Link TV is dedicating an entire week to showcasing diverse...

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Laila Brenner

02/29/12

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org MOTHERS member and resident reader Kelly DiNorcia sent me this book review – we’ll take a much needed break from politics and presidential campaigns with this post and lose ourselves in the...

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Valerie Young

Health Care Blog Carnivals

02/29/12

The Wireless Foundation joined the text4baby initiative over two years ago because of the clear value we see in using mobile technology to improve the health of families in this country. Text4baby is the first of its kind – a free-to-end-user mobile health education service that provides moms with...

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