From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org You probably know that GDP stands for gross domestic product and is used as a measure of the value of all goods and services produced in the national economy. Economists and elected...

About 52 million Americans take care of a spouse, a child, a parent, or another loved one at some point over the course of the year. The Affordable Care Act has good news for these millions of informal caregivers: It includes several measures that will mean more support for them, as well as...

Posted on behalf of Johnson Storage & Moving employee Barbara Collins. In 1986 my husband’s company ceased operations in Texas after 20 years and we decided that raising our preteen and teenager in Colorado was the best move for our family. Being 40 was a rough time to change careers but we both found the perfect fit. He works for a small Engineering firm and I joined the Johnson Storage & Moving company. For 18 years I worked in the office and envisioned this being the job I would retire from. Then in 2004 I was offered the opportunity to join the team that worked at home. I balked, as my manager can attest, thinking I was being put out to pasture. I had doubts about what I was doing and more so what I would be doing. Was this the way for them to test me and slowly ease me out? Then I got a call from another member of our team who had already transitioned to working at home and had suffered through many of the same fears. She told me what a difference it made for her and to her life and to be open minded and try it. This was the best thing that has happened for me and my husband since I started working.

California WIC Association (CWA) hosts an educational forum to discuss how low-to-no-cost policy reforms can dramatically increase health equity in California. Policy briefing sponsored by the Senate Health Committee. WHEN: Friday, April 8, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. WHERE: State Capitol, Room...