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05/03/11

Each Mother’s Day, I celebrate the two most miraculous, deliriously happy days of my life – the days I gave birth to my two children. What I counted on during my birth experiences: health care, a safe and sanitary environment, and trained birth personnel. What would have never occurred to me, a...

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Caty Borum Chattoo

05/02/11

Every employer pays for performance..right? Only believe it when your employer can prove it. There’s not a boss on this earth who doesn’t think he pays for performance. But ‘performance’ is often much more of a judgment call than one might think – even for jobs with quantifiable results, such as...

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Joanne Cleaver

05/02/11

Below is the fourth installment in a five-part series, Too Little to Save , in which the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) highlights a family and describes their struggles with foreclosure. Ms. Suarez is a single mom who has a toddler and two ten-year-old twins, one boy and one girl. They live in...

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Janis Bowdler

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

05/02/11

I just put together a very simple survey about working parents and stress. It takes only 3 minutes to complete. If you're a parent and you work to help support your family, here's what I'd like you to do: 1. Take the survey . 2. Share the survey (or this post) with everyone you know. 3. Come back...

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Katrina Alcorn

Environmental Health

05/02/11

This piece was cross-posted at the Moms Clean Air Force. I was recently thinking about Mother’s Day gifts from my sons over the years. Those wonderfully awkward clay sculptures they brought home from grade school; the colored drawin gs and the poems they write. And when they got a bit older, and...

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Dominique Browning

Immigration

04/28/11

A new federal court decision adds weight to the campaign to end the shackling of pregnant women.

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Rachel Roth

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

04/28/11

Turns out people really don't like their strawberries messed with. The recent uproar about a new cancer-causing chemical in strawberry fields started here in California. It's since gone nationwide – and if you want to help keep strawberries cancer-free, there are plenty of ways to join in . Here's...

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Kristin Schafer

04/28/11

A few weeks ago, I went to pick up my three kids from their after-school science class only to find that one of my 8-year-old twins, Leo, had never shown up. I spent 20 panicked minutes frantically searching for him, reviewing in my head what I knew about child abduction rates (they are really,...

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Jocelyn Guyer

Environmental Health Health Care

04/28/11

Over this past year, we've learned more and more about the problem of toxic chemicals. In 2010, the President's Cancer Panel showed a link between exposures to toxic chemicals and rising cancer rates. (1) Six months later, new research from the Journal of Pediatrics showed that a recent rise in...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

04/27/11

This year’s annual LGBT Health Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Coalition for LGBT Health, was full of exciting news. The Department of Health and Human Services released a directive outlining a wide array of new and existing initiatives focused on the health of LGBT people and their...

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Jeff Krehely