The past few weeks have been a pressure cooker of negotiations over the Infrastructure and Build Back Better Reconciliation bills. Here are a few posts that sum up the current situation. In case you missed it.
Children and parents dressed up as teachers, grandparents, health care workers, and other essential caregivers and recorded videos to share why they are grateful for caregivers -- and why caregivers need support.
October is Juvenile Justice month and to kick off the month, the Youth and Family Justice team held a Facebook Live event to educate folks on the issues of police free schools and the school-to-prison pipeline. One our main objectives was to have a group of panelists who would bring a wide array of...
On the radio show this week we cover Juvenile Justice Month and the importance of getting police OUT of schools and counselors IN schools. Special guests include: Essence-Jade Gatheright, Chicago Freedom Schoo; Donna Norton, MomsRising; Fatima Goss Graves, National Women’s Law Center; and Dawn Huckelbridge, Paid Leave for All.
It’s go time! Congress is negotiating now to decide what will be in the care infrastructure package that they hope to pass within weeks. We need to keep the pressure on!
It’s mission critical that equal pay becomes a reality for ALL women and people because when we experience a wage gap in our paychecks, the overall wealth gap widens across gender and race. When the wealth gap widens for communities already experiencing systemic forces of oppression, like racism, transphobia, xenophobia, and/or ableism, the opportunity gap for our lives and families *also* worsens.
