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12/20/11

The holidays can be like candy canes-they're sticky, they're sweet, with a whole lot of little surprises. But worrying about the ingredients in candy canes is the last thing any parent wants to have to think about at this time of year. Yet with the growing number of children with diabetes, obesity...

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Robyn O'Brien

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

12/20/11

I used to catch every cold that came into town. Office colds? Check. Office colds from my boyfriend’s office? Colds from family/friends/strangers schools/offices/jousting tournaments? Check, check, check. My winters were a series of tissue boxes, cough syrups, and congested mutterings that could be...

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Claire Moshenberg

12/20/11

For years I would wake up at 5:30 in the morning every Black Friday, leaving the kids with my mother-in-law, and get to the mall by 6:15 am. Every year, I would return six or seven hours later, loaded down with presents, and my mother-in-law would say, “There you are! I took care of your kids while...

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Joan C. Williams

12/19/11

Can You Call Congress Today to #ExtendUI!? Time is short. Unless Congress acts now to renew federal unemployment insurance, nearly 2 million people will be cut off in the month of January alone. Millions more would have this critical lifeline cut off in the near future – over 6 million would lose...

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Monifa Bandele

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

12/16/11

When my daughter was in kindergarten, she would inspect her friends' strawberries at lunchtime. “No no, you don’t want to eat that,” she would solemnly inform them. “It’s not organic. It might have yucky chemicals on it.” Yucky chemicals indeed. Studies continue to pile up showing how pesticides on...

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Kristin Schafer

Family Economic Security

12/15/11

Focus Group Results on Low-Income Parents’ Aspirations for Themselves and Their Children As America struggles to regain its economic footing, the nation’s most vulnerable families -- parents of young children who live at 200% of poverty or less -- express strong feelings of frustration and...

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Anne Mosle

Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

12/15/11

American mothers are hard-hit by the tough economy, with 42 percent more women than men living in poverty and single moms especially vulnerable. Yet women work valiantly to sustain families, and remain thankful that they can manage at all. In a new study on American families released today, the...

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Leslie Bennetts

12/15/11

Snow, sparkles, winter light, and... voting? Wait a minute. What does voting have to do with the holidays?! This holiday season at MomsRising we're announcing the launch of.... drum roll please.... ...MomsVote 2012! And we need your support, your help, your good wishes, and all of your holiday...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health

12/15/11

Wrapping up your holiday shopping? It's time to start wrapping and sending out those gifts! Try these top five green (and easy!) shipping tips: Green shipping options: When you’re shopping online, pay close attention to your shipping options. Many companies now give you the option to ship goods...

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Claire Moshenberg

12/14/11

It’s not hard to understand why the recent announcement that 2.5 million young adults have gained coverage through the Affordable Care Act is a big deal (this large gain is due to a provision in the law that went into effect on September 23, 2010 and allows adult children without access to job-...

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