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Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Shriver Report – Get the Latest Published Shriver Report, FREE!

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A Woman’s Nation is releasing its third in a series of Shriver Reports, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, in partnership with the Center for American Progress. And it can be downloaded for FREEfrom January 12th to January 15th.  To receive an email reminder when the report is available, sign up for our newsletter.
The report is a groundbreaking investigation into the millions of women who are doing it all and barely scraping by, struggling to provide and parent in a nation that hasn’t kept pace with the modern realities of their lives. It combines research, analysis and ideas from the nation’s top academic institutions and think tanks, essays by leading thinkers, stories of real women struggling with our modern economy, and a comprehensive poll.
The report is exclusively available on Amazon’s Kindle and Kindle App (see below for more details) and will be available free of charge until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15th.
Here’s a sneak peak at the 400-page, comprehensive report, which includes essays from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Beyoncé, Eva Longoria, LeBron James, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Sheryl Sandberg.


A New America that Cares
Throughout its history, America has continued to reinvent itself, each time producing a better society for more of us than the one that preceded it. Reconstruction improved on the pre-Civil War republic. The New Deal created a “new America” that was a great improvement on the Gilded-Age America. The civil rights movement generated legislation guaranteeing the equality promised in the Constitution
A 21st Century Moonshot: Health as a Human Right
© marcel – Fotolia.com   As a Washingtonian, I hear lots about solving problems—although we do not always seem to find solutions that work. Our problems seem so intractable, from climate change to feeding billions of people. The solutions are not going to come from approaches that involve repeating some formula that has always worked in the past. Instead, like a beloved math professor who advised
Get the Latest Published Shriver Report, FREE!
A Woman’s Nation is releasing its third in a series of Shriver Reports, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, in partnership with the Center for American Progress. And it can be downloaded for FREE from January 12th to January 15th.  To receive an email reminder when the report is available, sign up for our newsletter. The report is a groundbreaking investigation into the millions of wome

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Maria Shriver on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Discussing The Shriver Report
Maria Shriver appears on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight, Wednesday, January 8th, to discuss the upcoming launch of The Shriver Report, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink in partnership with Center for American Progress and #WhatWomenNeed. Be sure to check it out at 11:35/10:35C Also, sign up for our newsletter to receive a reminder when the report is available for free download f
The Shrivers’ Reports to the Heart of the Nation
Photo by Paul Conklin Maria Shriver dedicated her third Shriver Report to her parents, Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. As she summed it up, “Their name is on it too.” Needless to say, this truth runs deeper. Like father like daughter.  And like Maria, Sarge knew that “the source of any political process is the minds and hearts of people.” And like his daughter, he too provided a series of time
A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink: Powerful and Powerless
Let me state the obvious: I have never lived on the brink. I’ve never been in foreclosure, never applied for food stamps, never had to choose between feeding my children or paying the rent, and never feared I’d lose my paycheck when I had to take time off to care for a sick child or parent. I’m not thrown into crisis mode if I have to pay a parking ticket, or if the rent goes up. If my car breaks