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Rising Efforts to Combat Teen Domestic Violence
The New York Times published an interesting in-depth look at rising efforts to combat teen violence around the country. According to a 2007 report from the Centers for Disease Control that surveyed 15,000 adolescents, 10 percent reported physical abuse by a romantic...
Jobs protected for Philadelphians who are survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence
Some good news for the new year: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed the policy that the Philadelphia City Council passed in October requiring employers to provide up to eight weeks of unpaid leave for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence, and it went...
New year, same cash assistance benefits
Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed your holidays. While January 1 marked the beginning of a year in which we'll see a new president sworn in and more women in high-ranking positions in the U.S. government, it also marks the 19th year in which cash assistance benefits...
Obama's Choice of anti-LGBT Pastor Draws Fire
Members of the LGBT community across the nation have been expressing outrage at President-Elect Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Mr. Warren heads a megachurch in California and has been a strong opponent of equality for gays...
Bush Enacts Anti-Abortion Regulation
The Bush administration has enacted the Provider Conscience Regulation we blogged about in the past. This policy allows a wide group of medical personnel to refuse providing any medical service to which they object on moral grounds. But even before the Bush...
