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Healthcare reform is almost at the finish line, but we’re not sighing with relief just yet. Hundreds of thousands of families are waiting to find out if reform will actually:
- help out their family budgets,
- ensure that their health coverage is both accessible and affordable,
- offer strong regulation
- protect families from frustrating, costly, and unfair [...]
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog
MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org
Would you believe me if I told you that a major snowstorm affects the lives of men and women differently? Could I convince you that there is a gender difference, even in the weather? Let me try.
In February, parts of the East Coast had a humongous snowstorm. [...]
I love Michelle Obama’s new initiative Apps for Healthy Kids! What a great savvy way to approach the obesity epidemic in kids. I love the whole go to the people project….except for one rather glaring glitch, the esteemed 9 expert judge panel is 85% men. Just one woman on the team. Now if I was going [...]
The European Union Commission has proposed a new directive, to be voted on in March, that would make maternity leave compulsory for the first six weeks after a woman gives birth. You read that correctly — compulsory. As in, women would be forced to stay home, regardless of their own wishes, if they have children.
Beyond [...]
…At some point, of course, I realized I wasn’t happy. I was trapped. I had money, but not time. It was like being surrounded by food, and dying of thirst.
It turns out that there is a way out of this mess. There are people all over this country–both women and men–who have made a conscious decision to value their time more than their money. Against the formidable current of popular culture, they have decided that this may be the only life they will ever have, and they’re going to live it fully.
When Ashley’s son started going to child care, he started bringing home more than macaroni art and cute little scribble pictures. He also brought home colds, the flu, pink eye, and a weird unidentifiable rash — all things that meant Ashley needed to miss work to care for him.
“I didn’t realize that child care [...]
Nearly 17 million U.S. children (almost 1 out of every 4 children) faced hunger at some point last year.
That is a staggering statistic. But for MomsRising member Yvonne, it’s much more personal:
“My sister, the mother of 2 preschoolers, has track marks up and down her arms. Last July both she and her husband lost their [...]
A friend called me today, sharing her delight that her 10-year-old daughter came down to breakfast and wished her a “Happy International Women’s Day!” We wondered how her daughter knew about this important day without her mom telling her, and shared some happy thoughts about our strong, growing, young daughters.
Then the conversation turned: We simultaneously [...]
Any mom or dad who’s ever had a kid in diapers knows that if you catch a whiff of something bad, ignoring the smell isn’t going to make that mess go away. And so it also goes for our broken healthcare system.
What stinks? Health insurance rate hikes of up to 39 percent are now happening [...]
David Paterson is keeping me up at night. Whether he remains New York’s governor is not my worry – I live across the country and even liked how he confessed his own foibles while taking office. Since then, the governor’s decline and alleged misuse of power have been sad. But what really [...]
The Texas PTA passed a resolution demanding safe school siting policies throughout the state at its annual convention this February. This isn’t the first time PTA has shown leadership on this issue. In Fall of 2009, Alabama PTA passed a similar policy when a railroad company proposed building a transportation hub 150 feet away from [...]
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