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02/05/11

The new year is a perfect time to resume my blog posts, which fell victim to a heavy schedule of speaking about Plenitude as well as two new courses at Boston College, where I teach full time. It’s a pleasure to be writing again, and to have the opportunity to send greetings for a good 2011. I hope...

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Juliet Schor

02/05/11

By: O. Marion Burton, MD, FAAP, president, American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), representing 60,000 pediatricians, commemorates today’s second anniversary of the enactment of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), one of the most...

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O. Marion Burton, MD, FAAP

Immigration

02/04/11

In 2007, Encarnación Bail Romero, a young woman from Guatemala, was arrested and detained during an immigration raid at the Missouri poultry processing plant where she worked. The fact that Encarnación was a mother with a baby at home did not matter. She was detained without the opportunity to make...

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Michelle Brane

Health Care

02/04/11

Today is an important day for kids and their families all across the country. On this day, we celebrate the second anniversary of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, which President Obama signed into law, making it possible for this program to continue providing health...

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Kathleen Sebelius

02/03/11

Cross posted from Say Ahhh ! (Editor's Note: CHIPRA celebrates its second anniversary this week and Say Ahhh! is featuring guest blogs about how the law has impacted children and families in their states. Mary Wachtel of Voices for Ohio's Children is today's featured blogger. Ohio was also featured...

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Say Ahhh!

02/03/11

If you committed fraud or stole, the consequences would be steep and probably lead to imprisonment. Unless, of course, you’re a banker. The crimes committed by big banks against millions of Americans have gone unpunished . Big banks’ reckless behavior put our economy at the brink and their...

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Monica Trevino

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

02/03/11

Getting a child into sports and keeping them there is one of the best decisions a parent will make. While your kids do it for the fun, research on the life-long benefits of a sports experience gives parents even more motivation to schlep kids to those practices. Contrary to the “dumb jock” myth,...

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Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Paid Family Leave

02/03/11

The good news: Since California unions and community organizations helped pass Paid Family Leave legislation in 2002, over one million people have used the program, which provides up to six weeks of partial wage replacement for workers who take time off to bond with a new child or care for a...

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Jenya Cassidy

Open Flexible Work

02/03/11

At a press conference on February 1, 2011 at the National Press Club announcing an unprecedented partnership between Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to create workplaces for the 21st century, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...

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Ellen Galinsky

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work Health Care

02/02/11

By Portia Wu, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families , and Megan Renner, executive director of the United States Breastfeeding Committee . Every year roughly four million women give birth in the United States, and most of them (more than three-quarters) start out...

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Portia Wu