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A new era for healthcare consumers
Jan. 1, 2014, will go down as a great day in U.S. history, a day that transformed our broken healthcare non-system and improved the lives and health of millions of people in this country.
The Daily Herald, June 18, 2013
By Rep. Jan Schakowsky
At age 28, Lori never thought she would become too sick to work. But she did. Lori has PTSD, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Fibromyalgia. In 2009, simple tasks became extremely painful to perform.
After successfully applying for Social Security Disability benefits, she could barely make ends meet. Although it was incredibly painful, Lori began working part time to pay for food, rent and basic needs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jan-schakowsky/its-the-inequality-stupid_b_4398923.html
Our country is at a crossroads. Next week, 29 members of Congress serving on the House-Senate budget conference committee are expected to put forward a budget proposal that could have major, long-lasting impacts on the lives of every American family.
The Chicago Sun Times, February 27, 2013
By Rep. Jan Schakowsky
The word "sequester" remains a mystery to most Americans, but the impact of $85 billion in automatic spending cuts could change people's lives, like those of Sharna Ivy and her 4-year-old son, Ethan.
Every morning at 6 a.m., Sharna wakes up Ethan to get ready for school. Ethan has to be at the Mary Crane Center in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood promptly at 7 a.m., and Sharna does not want her son to miss a minute of a lesson.
Politico
In my jewelry box and often on my neck is an orange coral bead necklace, a special treasure that far exceeds its actual value for me because it belonged to my friend and mentor, Dawn Clark Netsch.
The Huffington Post, May 11, 2013
By Rep Jan Schakowsky
Today we honor the women who have made an incredible impact on our lives, our mothers. This Mother's Day, I want to call attention to the role women are playing in long-term care. Women are the overwhelming majority of the workers providing long-term support to seniors and people with disabilities. As a result, women are the ones most affected by legislative decisions on long-term care.
Yesterday I was arrested for "blocking passage" of a little used street along with seven other members of Congress and 200 others who want House Republican leadership to stop delaying a vote on comprehensive immigration legislation. About 20,000 immigrants and their supporters were at the Capitol as part of an enthusiastic demonstration in favor of a vote in the Congress.
Politico, February 13, 2013
By Rep. Jan Schakowsky
By Kerry Lester
February 7, 2013
A suburban mother who lost her son to gun violence less than three months ago will be Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's guest at Tuesday's State of the Union address.
Carolyn Murray of Evanston, whose 19-year-old son Justin was shot in front of his grandmother's Evanston home Nov. 29, has long been a proponent of gun control, participating in area gun buyback programs and candlelight vigils years before Justin's death.