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Is Obama Pandering to Women Voters?

5/16/12 6:15pm by Mona Gable
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President Obama on The View

In case you hadn't heard the shocking news, Obama went on ABC’s The View earlier this week and gabbed about JP Morgan, gay marriage, and Kim Kardashian -- though not necessarily in that order. He also announced that he is going to win the election in November.  Read more >

Why Won't the GOP Let the Senate Vote on Student Loans?

5/9/12 6:47am by Mona Gable
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My Daughter Kate and Her Dad Leaving for College

Tuesday morning Senate Republicans did something extra special. They blocked a vote on a Democratic bill to keep the interest on some student loans from doubling. This means the interest rate, which is now a barely tolerable 3.4 percent, will jump to 6.8 percent in two months unless something drastic happens. Like Mitt Romney realizing that most American families don’t have a spare $20,000 around to loan their kids.  Read more >

Equal Pay Day: How Are Women Doing? (Don't Ask)

4/17/12 12:40pm by Mona Gable
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Now that the much-ado-about-nothing Mommy Wars are over, let’s talk about what’s really important. Money.  Read more >

Who Won in the Hilary Rosen vs. Ann Romney Debate: Not Women

4/13/12 10:07am by Mona Gable
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Ann Romney, Mitt Romney and their son and daughter-in-law

It didn't take long, did it? for the old stay-at-home vs. working-mom flap to rear its ugly political head. After Mitt Romney more or less clinched the GOP ticket when Santorum dropped out of the race, I thought we might at least get a week or two before the nonsense ensued. Maybe even a respite until August, when the GOP heads to Tampa for its convention. But no.  Read more >

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Mona Gable
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April 2007
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Since 2005 I've been blogging on politics and parenting for The Huffington Post. I am also an award-winning journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, Salon, Ladies’ Home Journal, Family Circle, Health, and Los Angeles magazine, among numerous other publications. I am a contributor to the 2008 Seal Press anthology, “The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change,” edited by Shari MacDonald Strong. My essays have also appeared in the two bestselling collections, “Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood,” and “A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Daughters.” I am currently working on a memoir about my brain-damaged mother. 

 

 

Since 2004, I have been an instructor in the highly acclaimed Writers Program at UCLA Extension.

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