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Maureen Swanson

EPA, Don’t roll back lead safeguards

This week EPA held a listening session to consider repealing, replacing or modifying rules that protect kids from lead. Maureen Swanson, Director of Learning Disabilities Association of America’s Healthy Children Project delivered the following statement.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation, Lead Tagged With: Environmental Protection Agency, lead, learning disabilities, Learning Disabilities Association of America, Maureen Swanson

Can you hear us Walgreens?

By Maureen Swanson, Learning Disabilities Association of America Walgreens is pretty amazing. A little over a decade ago, the national drug store chain overhauled the way they hire, train, and retain employees. Walgreens initiated a program to hire people with physical, developmental and intellectual disabilities that involved major changes to their company processes, practices and […]

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Will Women Senators Stand Up for Moms?

Passing the Safe Chemicals Act: Time to Woman Up

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