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Nursing Home Horror Stories: Why Speaking Out Is Important

Six years ago, Eryetha Mayberry’s three daughters suspected someone at her Oklahoma nursing home was stealing from her, so they installed hidden cameras in her room. The resulting video showed two employees forcing the 96-year-old patient with dementia to lie down by pushing her head and preventing her from breathing. One employee shoved latex gloves … Read More

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Sexual Harassment – Served Up Daily.

By Jessica Copen and Olivia Talbott

Though there have been lots of headlines about sexual misconduct involving celebrity chefs, there hasn’t been much coverage about the countless other incidents at less glitzy restaurants. It turns out the family and chain restaurants, coffee shops and greasy spoons that millions of Americans visit each year also can be hotbeds of sexual harassment for … Read More

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LeeAnne Walters: Water Warrior

By Lisa A. Goldstein

When it takes 45 minutes just to prep for a bath because you have to use bottled water, and bath time is only once a week because bottled water is expensive, so you use baby wipes for the rest of the week, you’re someone who will do what it takes to keep her kids safe. … Read More

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The Chemist who Fought the EPA and Won – Twice

By Lisa A. Goldstein

The gigantic plumes of smoke from the collapse of the Twin Towers made Manhattan look post-apocalyptic. Ground Zero released fumes until mid-December. How could breathing in this dust be anything but harmful? Yet a week after 9/11, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the time told the public that this air was … Read More

Tags Cate Jenkins, EPA, Ground Zero, Women Whistleblowers, WTC case

Modern Day Goliath Hit By Patty Nixon’s Slingshot.

By Jill Laybourn

There aren’t many who would volunteer as David did, to face the giant Goliath. In fact, most would probably about face and run as fast as they could in the opposite direction. There is a modern-day David and Goliath battle raging in America, a drug epidemic that has been fostered by the billion-dollar drug companies … Read More

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Women Fighting to Hold Formula Maker Accountable to Families and Babies for Inadequate Warning of Neocate Dangers.

By Tasha Consiglio

A 2017 Yale University study revealed a link between Neocate, a formula for babies who cannot drink regular milk, and multiple and severe bone fractures. These fractures are thought to be occurring because of phosphate deficiencies (known as Rickets or hypophosphatemia). Tragically, in some instances, babies with multiple bone fractures face permanent disfigurement. In addition, … Read More

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Susan Fowler, Fighting Bro-Culture All the Way to the Supreme Court

By Lisa A. Goldstein

It was the memo heard ‘round the world, a shot at the heart of Silicon Valley. When Susan Fowler published a 3,000-word essay on her website in February 2017 about her time at Uber and why she left, she felt it was the right thing to do. In her opener, she wrote, “It’s a strange, … Read More

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WHY WOMEN MAKE GREAT WHISTLEBLOWERS

By Jessica Copen

It’s not a coincidence that it was women who blew the whistle on some of the most egregious examples of government and corporate wrongdoing in recent history. Enron whistleblower Sherron Watkins says women are more willing to take “moral risks” and writer Patricia Sellers echoes that point of view in a recent Fortune article. She … Read More

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ALL IN IT TOGETHER – GOLDMAN SACHS FEMALE EMPLOYEES CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.

By Jessica Copen

More than 2,300 female Goldman Sachs’ employees received good news last month when a federal judge gave them the green light to push forward a sexual discrimination lawsuit as a class action. It’s taken eight years for them to win the right to certification of the class action, which allows female associates and vice presidents … Read More

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Profiting from the Poor: UnKool Dentistry Rips Off Taxpayers and Exploits Children

By Jill Laybourn

As Americans today, it’s easy to become somewhat desensitized to stories of greed. It seems there’s not a day goes by without a news story of greed, fraud and corruption hitting the headlines. But when companies’ desires to amass more, means they sink to new lows by exploiting America’s poor and innocent, it is reprehensible … Read More

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