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Mothers Matter Most

By Valerie Young on May 5, 2014 in maternal economics, maternal mortality, Maternity Leave, Mother's Day

I have big plans for Mother’s Day this year. In fact, I’m giving myself more than a day - considering the number of minor miracles I pull off on a regular basis, I’m sure I merit several days. You, too, I’m thinking… First, I’m going to make sure I am down at the US Capitol [...]

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Pregnant @ Work

By Valerie Young on September 27, 2012 in Uncategorized

Now that roughly half the paid workforce is female, pregnancy issues surface regularly at work. You may have thought that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (“PDA”), passed in 1978, would have settled all this already. You’d be wrong. First of all, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that 62 percent of women who give birth [...]

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