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U.S. Lawmakers Sharpen Axe on Food Stamp Program
U.S. lawmakers will be trying to reconcile bills this week that will reduce benefits in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, previously known as food stamps.
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When Kinship Care Fails, Custody Hopes Collapse
In the world of Child Protective Services, it's never simple when family members step in to care for relatives' children and keep them out of foster care. Sometimes the process can make a fractured...
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Arizona Abortion Ban Blocked; Net Neutrality Rules End
The Supreme Court blocked Arizona from enforcing a ban on most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Also this week, the strike down of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules...
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More Moms Losing Kids in Family Court Drug Wars
Women across the country are often tested for drugs without consent and punished with government interventions when results are positive. Advocates say "test and report" is the "stop and frisk" of the...
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Women’s Groups Use SOTU to Stake Out Agenda
Progressive women seized on elements of the speech as a chance to showcase legislative priorities. A leader of one conservative women's group, however, slammed the State of the Union address, deriding...
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Sierra Leone’s Breast Cancer Taboo Stalls Diagnoses
Even if women do get diagnosed in time, getting treatment is costly and can mean heading to Ghana. On World Cancer Day, Anna Limontas-Salisbury delves into the major challenges in lowering breast...
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What If All Single Parents Received Child Support?
Amid all the 50-years-later press about LBJ's war on poverty, a deafening silence surrounds government support for single heads of household. This program, known as welfare, was ransacked in 1996 and...
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Women: When We Succeed, We Can Also Escape Abuse
Let's look at what the Democrats' economic equity agenda for women can also do to curb domestic violence. Higher wages mean survivors can more easily break away from an abuser and afford such things as...
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Drugs and Abusive Father Drove Her Into Military Life
Like so many female veterans, Rhiannon Duncan suffered parental sexual abuse as a child. For three years, the Army offered a way out. But then she ran into problems that led to her discharge and the...
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Global Goals Put Women at Heart of Poverty Battle
But how successful will the new U.N. framework be in raising global living standards? Enthusiasts put faith in technological innovations. Skeptics say the global economic system is inherently...
View ArticleIt’s Campaign Season, Ask Candidates About that New Child Care Bill
Child care for infants and toddlers is in short supply in most of the country. At the same time, providers lack training and are working long hours for low pay. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Melinda Gates Picks Up the Torch for a Caring Economy
Want to stamp out poverty? Let's first address the unequal distribution of under- and unpaid care work, which often falls on women's shoulders.
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When You Shop, Try to Leave Out All the Slavery
As consumers, we shouldn't need tragedies like last year's factory collapse in Bangladesh to wake us up and realize that what we buy matters. Nomi, the group I cofounded, helps you join the positive...
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Road to College Included Hitchhiking with Kids
Two young children and no car didn't prevent Rita Henley Jensen from enrolling in Ohio State University. She caught a ride with a stranger and her family's future was transformed, she says in this...
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Refugee Women in South Sudan: ‘Stop the Killing’
Just a few months ago both these women led very different lives. But now they live side by side in a refugee camp and provide a glimpse of the human toll of the bloody conflict in the world's youngest...
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Minnesota OKs Workplace Bills; Asian LBT Targeted
Minnesota's governor approved a package of bills aimed at improving conditions for women in the workplace. Also this week, a report shows that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in some Asian...
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Menstrual Hygiene Day Links Periods and Human Rights
Handling periods (or "menstrual hygiene management" as experts call it) isn't the first thing one might associate with human rights. Yet the link between realization of rights for women and girls and...
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Donor Deaths in India Highlight Surrogacy Perils
Two women have died from causes tied to their role as egg donors in India's booming market for artificial reproduction. Advocates are pressing the government to publicize health warnings and pass...
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Drugs and Abusive Father Drove Her Into Military Life
Like so many female veterans, Rhiannon Duncan suffered parental sexual abuse as a child. For three years, the Army offered a way out. But then she ran into problems that led to her discharge and the...
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Global Goals Put Women at Heart of Poverty Battle
But how successful will the new U.N. framework be in raising global living standards? Enthusiasts put faith in technological innovations. Skeptics say the global economic system is inherently...
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