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Becki 
on May 08, 2008 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.detnews.com Tags: benefits, discrimination, gender
A Detroit police officer who says she and many other female officers are forced to hide their pregnancies is headed to federal court to fight a policy that she says forces pregnant cops to go on
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Lilly Ledbetter got her 15 minutes of fame, but a little press won't cover the mortgage. The 59-year-old mother of two had spent 19 years working at the Goodyear tire factory in Gadsden, Alabama,
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You can help get the Fair Pay Restoration Act (S. 1843) passed by setting up a meeting with your U.S. Senator, or a key staff person, before they go back to Washington, D.C. at the end of
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Emily
on November 20, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.msnbc.msn.com Tags: California, mattel, R
Yeah California! "California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday sued 20 companies, including Mattel Inc. and Toys “R” Us, claiming they sold toys containing “unlawful quantities of
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Sandy
on November 01, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: seattletimes.nwsource.com Tags: lead, toy recall
Ugh ... I hate to think how much over the past few days my kids have put Halloween fake teeth in their mouths. Here's the start to the article, "Hours before trick-or-treaters began going door
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Emily
on October 31, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.momsrising.org Tags: kristin rowe-finkbeiner, momsrising
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner gets 16 PAGES of comments on this blog post: "Do you have a scary story to share about the hurdles you’ve faced raising children? Help MomsRising.org collect real life
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Emily
on October 05, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.sfgate.com Tags: California, Family Leave, Joan Williams
From the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, "When Sheila Salas' sister developed breast cancer, Salas took more than a month off from work. She drove her to chemotherapy appointments. She
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Beverly
on September 24, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.mothertalkers.com Tags: Australia, maternity leave, paid maternity leave
An Australian politician this month introduced a bill calling for a paid maternity leave scheme. Natasha Stott Despoja, a senator from the Australian Democrats Party, put forth a bill that would
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Emily
on September 11, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.nytimes.com Tags: American Cancer Society, health insurance, healthcare
From the NYT opinion page: The American Cancer Society’s new advertising campaign urging access to quality health care for all Americans will bring home in gripping terms what happens to
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Emily
on September 05, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.hillaryclinton.com Tags: China, Hillary Clinton, lead paint
The Presidential candidates are getting behind the lead paint issue. Here's Hillary Clinton's statement: "It is simply unacceptable that in America in 2007, parents should have to fear for
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Emily
on September 01, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.washingtonpost.com Tags: breast-feeding, formula, infants
In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers
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MomToThree
on August 27, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.chron.com Tags: CHIP, schip, children's health
From the Houston Chronicle: Cynthia Pacheco used to rely on a government-funded children's health insurance program to keep her twin boys healthy. Now she relies on prayer. "We lay hands on
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MomToThree
on August 25, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.cnn.com Tags: care, caregiver, caregiver syndrome
There are a lot of women taking care of their parents or spouses while they're taking care of their kids. Here's an article from CNN that looks at "caregiver syndrome". Do you take care of
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Emily
on August 24, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.youtube.com Tags: Bev Betters, joan blades, kristin rowe-finkbeiner
These are hilarious, wonderful and completely on point.0 comments | 1 likes it | report | Tell a friend
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Sandy
on August 24, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.momsrising.org Tags: joan blades, momsrising, flame retardant
Here's the post from Joan Blades, co-founder of MomsRisng: "With all the recent press about toxic lead paint on our children's toys, and the lack of press about toxic flame retardants in our
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Holly
on August 18, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.msnbc.msn.com Tags: China, recall
Author Sara Bongiorni and her family spent a year avoiding anything with a 'Made In China' label. The experience was more difficult—and expensive—than you might imagine. From pet food to
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Sandy
on August 15, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.workingmother.com Tags: balance, Flex-time, work-life balance
Looking for inspirational, cutting-edge work/life benefits? Take a global glance: Twelve months of paid parental leave. Free day care until age 4. Subsidized afterschool care up to the tween
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ExpectingExec
on August 14, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: blogspot.expectingexecutive.com Tags: Blogher, feminism, Kathleen Deveney
This is nn open letter to Kathleen Deveney - Asst. Managing Editor, Newsweek; Jon Meacham, Editor, Newsweek regarding the Yummy vs. Slummy article found in the Family section of the August 13,
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Karen
on August 14, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: salsa.democracyinaction.org Tags: momsrising, survey
MomsRising wants to know what you think and what you want. Take the survey, it is a pretty quick one. -
Sandy
on August 14, 2007 in MomsRising in The MotherHood!
View Original: www.latimes.com Tags: cbs, Don Imus
Since MomsRising was involved with the Don Imus mess, everyone might be interested in this article from the LA Times saying that he might be returning to radio.
