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Robin Hindery is a reporter and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The campaign is picking up energy from the high-voltage presidential primary process and organizers say they are starting to emphasize unionizing and such quality-of-life issues as housing and early childhood education.
In his State of the Union address a year ago, Obama called for action on paid leave. Advocates say that after a game-changing 2015 a rising tide of initiatives is spilling into election-year politics.
As California bucks the U.S. trend in worsening maternal health, a project focused on two major risks–obstetric hemorrhage and preeclampsia–is gaining notice. Next year it will start targeting unnecessary C-sections among first-time mothers.
It starts with a focus on such preventable killers as obstetric hemorrhage, preeclampsia and blood clot embolisms. “The goal is that every hospital in the country should implement maternity safety bundles; a standard set of best practices,” says a doctor leading the effort.
Supervisor David Campos introduced the legislation in the hope it will have national influence on income inequality policy. A source of San Francisco’s divide between “haves and have-nots,” he says, is the gap in how men and women are being paid.
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