Anthony Weiner
Breastfeeding Rates Rise; Twitter Ignores Threats
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Breastfeeding rates went up in the United States between 2000 and 2010. Twitter failed to deal with threats of sexual abuse made on its site against a feminist campaigner.
Aging
Medicare Defenders Ready for a Paul Ryan Rematch
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As Congress resumes today, advocates for older women are girding for another round of health care battles. One group has re-released its 2011 “Granny Off the Cliff” video showing the GOP budget leader pushing an older woman over the edge of survival.
Ann Telnaes
Weight-Loss Surgery Sheds Writer’s Pounds, Not Habits
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Jen Larsen underwent gastric bypass surgery and lost 180 pounds in a year and a half. In this excerpt from her new book, “Stranger Here,” she chronicles the initial highs and lows post-surgery.
affordable care act
Up Next in Budget Battles: Pay for Medicare Docs
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The latest “doc fix” averted a 27-percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians. But don’t say phew yet. In this news analysis Sharon Johnson explains how an obscure compensation formula is tearing away at the system from within.
budget
Medicare in Cross-Hairs of Lame Duck Congress
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Election polling found women disproportionately concerned with what happens to Medicare, which is expected to be a major topic when the lame duck Congress meets Nov. 14.
Economy
Homeless Woman in NYC Strains to Pay Her Own Way
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Women and children are driving up a homeless population that can’t afford to pay New York City’s high rents. One woman’s effort to leave a city shelter after almost three years shows the financial tightrope she must walk.
Politics
Battles Loom on Women’s Rights, Health, Budget
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Spring brings an overflow of political battles that affect women. Statehouse bills attack choice, Medicare and Medicaid could be picked apart in agency budget hearings and federal spending to curb domestic violence faces unusual opposition.
Work
Debt-Ceiling Bill Called Bad Business for Women
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Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security were spared immediate cuts in this week’s deal to raise the government’s borrowing limit. But long-term threats are seen to the programs women disproportionately depend on.
Work
Hochul Win Sends Hands-Off-Medicare Message
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Medicare-preservationist Kathy Hochul just won a starring role in budget affairs with her upset victory in western New York. But inside the Beltway, not a single woman is on the White House’s special team of budget dealmakers.
Work
GOP’s Block-Grant Plan Merits the Chopping Block
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Susan Feiner calls GOP lawmakers’ craze to turn federally funded programs over to states through “block grant” payments a block-headed approach to cost control that will do great harm to women.