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11/12/11

As the Massachusetts Legislature considers this year’s crop of criminal justice reform bills, one that has not gotten much attention is a measure to ensure proper treatment of pregnant women in jail and prison. Improving the medical treatment and protecting the constitutional rights of these women...

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Rachel Roth

11/11/11

My friend’s husband did, the other day, what to me sounds like the undoable. He got up at 4:30 in the morning, ate breakfast, and then ran 26 miles non-stop. The fact that there were hundreds of others alongside him running in the NYC Marathon doesn’t make it seem any more possible in my mind. I...

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Ali Smith

Paid Sick Days

11/11/11

As a transgender person, I realize how important it is to have paid sick days. If you don’t know, a transgender person is just like anyone else, but refers to people who transition from one gender to another and/or their gender expression varies from conventional expectations of how they should...

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Emilia D

Paid Sick Days

11/11/11

Every day, workers across the Commonwealth have to make a tradeoff between their paycheck and caring for themselves or their family. Some are fortunate to be able to stay home with pay when they or their loved ones are ill. Paid sick leave, however, is far from universal. In Massachusetts, more...

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Pem Brown

Paid Sick Days

11/11/11

Updated 11/14/2011, 11/15/2011, 11/17/2011: We're constantly updating this blog-a-thon with new posts. Scroll down to see our latest posts, including the perspective of a small business owner. And please leave a comment; we'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks! *** Let’s face it. Children share...

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Monifa Bandele

11/11/11

My name is Barb Kalbach, I am a fourth-generation family farmer and nurse from rural Iowa and a longtime member of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI). Last week I called the offices of Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan to tell him to stop financing payday lenders. I talked to a young...

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Monica Trevino

Food!

11/11/11

In case you haven’t already heard the news, Food Day 2011 was a huge success! With over 2300 events in all 50 states, we were thrilled that so many organizers joined the movement for "real food" across the country on October 24. Mark your calendars for Food Day 2012, which will again take place on...

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Mike Jacobson

11/11/11

Can deep trauma or life-long angst heal quickly, in just a few psychotherapy sessions, or even one session? Yes, according to Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D., a proponent of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), and co-author, with David Malan, of Lives Transformed: A Revolutionary Method of...

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Dora Wang, M.D.

Environmental Health

11/11/11

For over a year, we at PAN have been watching EPA’s long-overdue review of atrazine , a common herbicide that's been linked to birth defects , hormone disruption and cancer. You may have heard about this chemical - it's the one that scientists have found can turn male frogs into females at...

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Kristin Schafer

Paid Family Leave

11/10/11

My third daughter had a 92% chance of never being conceived. When she was around four years old she heard a friend of mine mention our little surprise, and then asked me: “Mommy, why does she say I’m an accident?” Never wanting her to think this about herself, I stopped anyone from saying anything...

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