Health Care

May 2, 2010

On Friday April 30, the Governor of West Virginia held a press conference to announce the secured funding of a new elementary school. Located 300 feet from a coal ash silo due to the practice of mountaintop removal, Marsh Fork Elementary has been the center of a controversial school siting fight...

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Renee Blanchard

Environmental Health Health Care

April 21, 2010

When I was young, I volunteered for various organizations and I participated in an academic extracurricular group known as the Future Problem Solvers of America, but that was the extent of my adolescent efforts at having a positive impact on the world. I don’t think I had ever heard of anyone young...

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Janelle Sorensen

Health Care

April 21, 2010

Special Mission for MomsRising members, aka SuperMoms, SuperDads, and Superheros of all sizes: Each year, many children who want to participate in school or community sports are sidelined because they don't have health insurance. They may not be able to afford a physical or their families worry...

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Ashley Boyd

Health Care

April 19, 2010

We know cancer affects men and women of every race, ethnicity and class. But in the United States, cancer disproportionately affects the poor and racial and ethnic minorities. For example, cancer is the leading cause of death among Asian-American women in the United States and breast cancer is the...

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Linda Blount

Health Care

April 14, 2010

Since this month's publication of my paper " The Burden of Suboptimal Breastfeeding in the United States " in Pediatrics with Arnold Reinhold, I'm often asked by reporters what the US can do better to improve our breastfeeding rates. I've also gotten quite a few comments asking if this research...

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Melissa Bartick

Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work

April 9, 2010

For six years, I "balanced" a demanding job, a commute, and raising young children. All things considered, I thought I was managing really well until just before my last child turned one year old. Then, the stress and exhaustion I'd been holding at bay engulfed me. I could barely get out of bed, or eat, or think.

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Katrina Alcorn

Health Care

April 6, 2010

I’m Linda Blount, mother of two and National Vice President of Health Disparities for the American Cancer Society. Health equity is my passion. We live in a country that spends more on healthcare than any other country. Yet, despite the $2 trillion spent on healthcare last year, there are many...

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Linda Blount

Health Care

April 6, 2010

Since breastfeeding is a hot-button issue around these parts, I thought I would share with you the latest study to appear in the Journal of Pediatrics. Basically, it just put a number and dollar amount on the lives that would be saved if 90 percent of mothers in the United States breastfed their...

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Elisa Batista

Health Care

April 2, 2010

With the entire nation buzzing over President Obama's historic health care victory, many Americans are trying to understand how this new law will affect their everyday lives. For some of our nation's most vulnerable children with special health care needs, President Obama has announced that,...

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Bruce Lesley

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Health Care Family Economic Security Open Flexible Work

April 2, 2010

"Many folks don't have access to any kind of family leave policies whatsoever, no flexible working arrangements, many people don't even have a paid sick day. So they are struggling…scrambling to make things work…As we all know, here today, it just doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be...

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Katie Bethell