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Moms In ‘Survival Mode’ As U.S. Trails World On Benefits
Roxanne Vivanco just returned to her banking job in Ramsey, New Jersey, after spending 12 weeks with her newborn daughter without having to deplete her savings. [She] was able to tap a state-administered benefit that finances family leave through employee payroll contributions. [...] Vivanco considers herself fortunate in a nation where only 12 percent of workers get paid time off to care for a baby or a sick parent, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Read More »
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Documents Reveal How Poultry Firms Systematically Feed Antibiotics To Flocks
Major U.S. poultry firms are administering antibiotics to their flocks far more pervasively than regulators realize, posing a potential risk to human health. Internal records examined by Reuters reveal that some of the nation’s largest poultry producers routinely feed chickens an array of antibiotics – not just when sickness strikes, but as a standard practice over most of the birds’ lives...
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Is the Consolidation of the Food Industry Turning Lettuce into a Weapon of Mass Destruction?
In the summer of 2006, consumers across the country began falling sick from a particularly nasty strain of Escherichia coli bacteria, known as 0157:H7. Not all E. coli bacteria are dangerous, but 0157:H7 belongs to the Shiga toxin-producing group of pathogens (known as STEC), which can cause severe, and sometimes fatal, illness. By early October, 199 people in twenty-six states had fallen ill, resulting in 102 hospitalizations and thirty-one cases of kidney failure. Three people died, including a two-year-old boy in Utah...
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Slaughter Joins Legislation To Overturn Citizens United And Limit Contributions To Super PACs
Today, Congressman John D. Dingell (D-MI12) announced the introduction of H.R. 1338, the Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act, legislation to set contribution limits on donations to Super PACs and establish findings that would allow for the overturning of the flawed Citizens United v. FEC decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY-25) joined Dingell as a co-sponsor of this important legislation. Read More »
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