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07/30/09

Today is Governor Schwarzenegger's birthday. But we're not exactly in the mood to throw him a party right now. On Tuesday, the Governor used his line-item veto authority to revise the state budget and add another $50 million in cuts to the state's Healthy Families Program, bringing the total cuts...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Paid Family Leave

07/30/09

Two recent studies both expose and excuse OBs who perform cesareans for their own safety, fiscal welfare, and personal anxieties, rather than in response to the genuine health status of mother and baby.

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Jackie Levine

Environmental Health Health Care

07/30/09

Want to say goodbye to those ever increasing parental worries about toxic chemicals used in everything from sunblock to beach balls, and even canned peaches? So do we! We're sick and tired of reading report after report about dangers associated with the products we use everyday: Biphenol-A (BPA) in...

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Ariana Kelly

07/29/09

It's that time... excruciating pain, exhaustion, breathe and PUSH!!!! Yes, it's up to us again. We've got to push Congress to give birth to healthcare reform! Stalling on a vote in Congress is the key strategy of the opponents of healthcare reform.[1] Keep the momentum going forward. Tell your...

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Donna Norton

07/29/09

President Barack Obama is making his case for healthcare reform in various town hall meetings across the country. Most recently, he had a bullet-point-style message on why the insured should support his healthcare plan. From the Washington Post : "* No Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions:...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health

07/28/09

How many chemicals are in everyday products? How much of them do we make every year? What could they do to the environment and health? No one knows and no one's really trying to find out, but we can put an end to the idiocy.

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Janelle Sorensen

07/28/09

Today we are joining tens of thousands of health care advocates to start making history by calling for health care reform that meets the needs of women and their families. Along with all our partners at Health Care for America Now, the National Women’s Law Center is asking health advocates to...

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Thao Nguyen

Childcare & Early Education

07/26/09

Despite billions of dollars in stimulus funds pumped into school systems across the country, districts in urban and rural settings alike will open their doors this fall with as many as 45 students in class. I have written about this before, but still, reading this story by the Associated Press left...

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Elisa Batista

07/24/09

What really hurts women? Our current health care system. Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel This morning ten women members of Congress held a news conference on "how the Democrats' health care legisaltion [sic] will hurt women and affect their day-to-day lives." Written by Lisa Codispoti, National...

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Thao Nguyen

07/24/09

Yesterday, armed with nothing but pacifiers, we stormed the barricades of Congress. Slightly hot and sticky Washington D.C. area MomsRising members delivered the healthcare stories of hundreds of MomsRising members to the U.S. Senate. Our calling cards were pacifiers to drive home our message that...

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Donna Norton