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07/27/10

I have been unemployed since December 2008, and my husband works for a very small company with 5-6 employees that does not offer healthcare. Will health reform mandate all employers, regardless of size, to provide healthcare? Health reform does not mandate that small employers offer coverage to...

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Claire McAndrew

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

07/27/10

A quiet revolution has been taking place in Sweden for 15 years, affecting everything from the gender pay gap to workplace culture to relationships between parents and children. It all started at home. Here’s a link to the fascinating New York Times story about this phenomenon. Now here’s my...

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Katrina Alcorn

Immigration Childcare & Early Education

07/27/10

The Net is about connecting. It’s about reaching. It’s an electronic whisper in an ear that wants to know. And then wants to know more. And then wants to reach out to others. It’s about making a whisper a shout and giving form to the shout so it becomes a mighty chorus working in harmony to do something to help.

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Lily Eskelsen

07/27/10

By Stephanie Drahan , Outreach Associate, National Women's Law Center As we like to repeat, in March, an historic health care reform law passed! In September, many of the provisions will start going into effect , including one of the most popular: the “under 26” or dependent coverage provision ...

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Thao Nguyen

Childcare & Early Education

07/27/10

It simply isn't right to take advantage of new parents when they're vulnerable. But baby formula companies are doing just that. And this is especially wrong because empty infant formula advertising claims undermine evidence-based messages like "breastfeeding is best for babies." This has got to be...

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Sarah Francis

07/26/10

I received an email today from the Tahirih Justice Center , an outstanding non-profit organization dedicated to protecting immigrant women and girls fleeing violence, about critical upcoming legislation that every mom will care about. The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA),...

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Homa Tavangar

07/25/10

Rigid foster care rules threaten to dissolve family ties when mothers are in prison or residential drug treatment. A new law in New York State takes steps to help these families weather the separation.

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Rachel Roth

Childcare & Early Education

07/24/10

Back in the day, when I was small, I remember waking up too early for TV to be on. I woke up too early for TV to be on. If you are under 20, you have no idea what I just said. My brothers and sisters would run downstairs in our jammies on a Saturday morning to watch cartoons, but TV didn’t come on until 6 am, so it was possible to wake up too early.

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Lily Eskelsen

07/24/10

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org When it comes to making our world go 'round, women are doing most of the heavy lifting. We work more US jobs than men, and our income is the sole or significant support in more households...

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Valerie Young

Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days

07/24/10

Here are some nuggets from Netroots Nation: the Parents Caucus was well-attended with between 30 and 35 people. I have hosted the panel five years in a row, and this was one of the better attended caucuses, including more men and even a couple of vocal dads. It was thrilling. What did we discuss?...

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