Childcare & Early Education

November 20, 2012

You've heard the term "fiscal cliff" and you've heard about how lawmakers in Washington can't agree on spending or taxes. But here's what you probably haven't heard: The federal budget negotiations happening right now may result in deep cuts to programs that benefit the next generation of Americans...

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Mattea Kramer

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote

November 15, 2012

My home state is California, and we just successfully survived our own state version of the "fiscal cliff" when it comes to education. Here, they were called the "trigger cuts." If Proposition 30 -- essentially part of the June 30, 2012 budget passed by the legislature that needed the people's...

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Cynthia Liu

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget

November 14, 2012

They don’t call it the "cliff” for nothing. It’s the fiscal spot where a nation’s representatives can gather and cry doom. It’s the place -- if Washington is to be believed -- where, with a single leap into the Abyss of Sequestration, those representatives can end it all for the rest of us. In the...

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Mattea Kramer

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Immigration MomsVote

November 6, 2012

IT’S HERE! Election Day is today (November 6th!) and it's time to get out there and vote! It can be enough of a challenge just getting to the polls today, but it’s so important. Make sure that you have everything you need this election day to make your voting experience go smoothly. Find out: What'...

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Claire Moshenberg

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

October 31, 2012

Last week I was watching the popular TV show The Middle , and parents Mike and Frankie Heck were struggling to remember if they’d ever spoken to their kids about sex. “That’s what schools are for,” Frankie, the mom joked. Yikes! The good news is, unlike in the show, 90 percent of parents have...

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Leslie Kantor

Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

October 30, 2012

(this post was originally published in my blog, LadydeeLG , on July 18, 2012.) Yesterday I commented on Ms. Mayer’s thoughts and focused on what her non-existent maternity leave could say to employers and employees about the expectations and needs of working mothers (and parents) or what employers...

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Diana Limongi

Childcare & Early Education

October 24, 2012

By Wendy Lazarus and Laurie Lipper Co-Presidents of The Children’s Partnership The Presidential Debates missed focusing on the job held by 155 million Americans: parenting. Here are five questions that the candidates should have answered—and still can. The Presidential Debates are over. And despite...

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Kristen Golden Testa

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Open Flexible Work MomsVote Health Care Food!

October 24, 2012

In 2011, I taught two summer courses, directed a federal budget research organization and paid taxes. Taxes are the dues I pay for living in a democracy. Like you, I contribute at the local, state, and federal levels. I want us to fall a little bit in love with the federal budget and there’s no...

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Jo Comerford

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Immigration MomsVote Politics & Policy

October 23, 2012

Are you headed to a town hall event, election forum, or did you just run into a candidate at the grocery store? Take along our handy list of sample questions that you can use to ask the candidates about issues that are important to women and families. Find out where your candidates stand! And, you...

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Ruth Martin

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

October 11, 2012

There are some universal truths about being a parent, and one of them is that when we try to talk with our teenagers, it can feel like we’re speaking in different languages. This is especially true when we’re talking to them about sex. Recently, Planned Parenthood , Family Circle magazine, and the...

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Leslie Kantor