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Wal-Mart’s Demerit Practice Makes Me Sick
by Debra L. Ness | Dec 16, 2009 | Paid Sick Days
Given the recent news about Wal-Mart’s sick days practice, we all may want to think twice about shopping there this holiday season—which regrettably overlaps with cold and flu season.
New York City Rallies Behind Paid Sick Days
by Debra L. Ness | Dec 16, 2009 | Paid Sick Days
Since its launch just this summer, New York City’s campaign for paid sick days has quickly become one of the most-watched in the country.
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Health Care Reform Matters to Older Women
by Debra L. Ness | Dec 7, 2009 | Choosing Health Equity
Let’s be clear. As both caregivers and patients, women bear the brunt of shortcomings in our health care system – high costs, poor quality, and fragmented, uncoordinated care.
What Are Lawmakers Afraid Of?
by Debra L. Ness | Nov 17, 2009 | Paid Leave
For decades, we’ve debated whether the United States can afford to provide more family-friendly workplace policies and protections, and whether doing so will increase unemployment and harm our economic competitiveness.
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A Historic Moment…But at Women’s Expense
by Debra L. Ness | Nov 10, 2009 | Reproductive Rights
The health reform bill the House passed this weekend had some long-overdue advances — and an eleventh hour amendment so appalling it taints the entire bill.
Sen. Dodd Holds a Hearing on the Healthy Families Act
by Debra L. Ness | Nov 10, 2009 | Paid Sick Days
On Nov. 10, the Senate HELP Committee’s Subcommittee on Children and Families, chaired by Sen. Chris Dodd, hosted a hearing on H1N1 and paid sick days entitled “The Cost of Being Sick.”
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Rx for Health Literacy
by Debra L. Ness | Oct 30, 2009 | Choosing Health Equity
October is health literacy month and, as Congress debates the widespread challenges in health care, we also need to address the problem of low health literacy — an obstacle people face in doctors’ offices across the country everyday and one that has a big impact on health outcomes.
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What Did You Just Sign?
by Sharyn Tejani | Oct 26, 2009 | Sexual Harassment
Every day, women’s rights and civil rights groups work to improve the laws that govern our lives. And several times each day, workers sign away their right to enforce those laws in court.
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The Evidence is There: Better Coordinated Care Makes Sense and Saves Money. Duh.
by Christine Bechtel | Oct 14, 2009 | Choosing Health Equity
This just in. What health care experts have suspected for some time has been demonstrated by a new study published in the American Journal of Managed Care: patients who can rely on a coordinated system where their providers talk to each other, their medical information is available electronically, and they have improved access to doctors and nurses – have better health outcomes.
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The Costs of Family Caregiving in an Aging Society: What Is Your Experience?
by Lynn Feinberg | Oct 5, 2009 | Paid Leave
Everyone I know has at least one personal story about the overwhelming stress and frustration in trying to arrange, coordinate or provide the best possible care for an aging parent, spouse, grandparent, other older relative or friend, not to mention the spiraling costs of health care.
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Does Your Child Care Center Provide Paid Sick Days?
by Karen Pesapane Zadravec | Sep 28, 2009 | Paid Sick Days
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps updating its guidelines to help child care and early childhood programs – – and all of us – – respond to influenza during the 2009-2010 flu season.
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No Progress on the Wage Gap…Again!
by Sharyn Tejani | Sep 14, 2009 | Fair Pay
It is official. Women are still getting short-changed when it comes to our wages. Last week, the government released information on pay and gender.