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10/15/10

When my friend Brianna Cayo Cotter and I started a project called Swap for Good last spring, the idea was to raise both awareness and money for the underfunded and critical services provided by domestic violence shelters around the country. The idea behind Swap for Good is simple – encourage people...

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Orli Cotel

Environmental Health Health Care

10/15/10

What's orange, yellow, and pink all over? The month of October! Fall's here with orange pumpkins, yellow leaves-- and the "think pink" campaign of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everything is adorned with pink ribbons from yogurt cups to NFL football helmets. But our friends at the Breast Cancer...

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Sarah Francis

Paid Sick Days

10/15/10

We're outraged that, mere weeks before flu season starts, NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced she won't support the New York City paid sick days bill, effectively "killing" it. For now. Why “for now?” Because we know how important paid sick days are to working moms and our families’...

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Ruth Martin

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

10/15/10

We know the value of unions to working Americans: unionized workers make more money, have more access to pensions, receive better health insurance, and have safer workplaces. Less known but equally critical is that unionized workers also receive more generous family-friendly benefits – union...

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Brandy Davis

Environmental Health

10/15/10

My colleague Bruce Nilles, the Deputy Conservation Director of the Sierra Club, has been sharing community coal ash profiles in his columns lately . This week's column (which I've shared below) features a mom fighting back against coal ash , the toxic by-product of burning coal for electricity...

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Sarah Hodgdon

10/14/10

Just when you think big banks couldn’t be more heartless, now we’re hearing that thousands of families were illegally foreclosed on because the banks lost or destroyed their original mortgage notes . Some big banks announced that they would delay foreclosures until they investigate the faulty...

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Monica Trevino

Health Care

10/14/10

Children are among the biggest beneficiaries of the new health reform provisions, which include the ban on denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions and full coverage of preventive care, such as child wellness visits. MomsRising has collected a number of great blog posts on how...

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Erina Aoyama

Paid Sick Days

10/14/10

Last week, Mayor Bloomberg issued a press release advising people who get sick this season to stay home for at least 24 hours. He makes it sound so easy. Of course, Mayor Bloomberg has paid sick days. So, it’s hard for him to understand how the other half lives. The other half being the nearly 50%...

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Amy Impellizzeri

Paid Sick Days

10/13/10

As New York continues to waver on enacting overwhelmingly popular legislation that would guarantee working people the right to earn paid sick time, other cities are catching up fast. Consider Philadelphia, where I had the opportunity to attend an event on earned paid sick leave yesterday. Spurred...

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Amy Traub

Environmental Health Health Care

10/13/10

Every October, we are inundated with information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We here at the Breast Cancer Fund [embed link: www.breastcancerfund.org ] think that it is not enough to just be aware about breast cancer. We need to start preventing this disease! Last week, we released our...

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