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Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/17/10

You probably didn’t know it, but today is Parents’ Day. For 89 years, during the third week in November, we celebrate American Education Week, and each day of the week we celebrate a different aspect of what makes education work. Today is Parents’ Day. Any teacher will tell you how much we rely on...

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Lily Eskelsen

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/17/10

There was good news for our flailing economy from the Bureau of Labor Statistics this month. More than 150,000 jobs were added in the United States in October and private sector payrolls grew by 159,000. But there was some news that didn’t change: unemployment held steady at 9.6 percent. Almost 15...

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Linda Meric

11/17/10

By Judy Waxman , Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center The process of implementing the new health care law continues this week as a panel of independent experts meet to begin to develop evidence-based preventive health guidelines for women that will be used...

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Thao Nguyen

Childcare & Early Education

11/17/10

I remember when I first started teaching sometime in the late 1800s when one of the moms of one of my 4th graders came to the class to apologize. She had always been The Room Mother for her kids, but this year she was working outside the home, and she was apologizing...

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Lily Eskelsen

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

Most of us will never know what it feels like to see our unemployment insurance benefits run out. But that doesn’t mean we can’t feel for the people who are at the economic edge, just eking by because of that check for a few hundred dollars. Aimee Brittain, 32, is coming up on a year without a job...

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Eve Tahmincioglu

11/16/10

This is it. A vote will happen TOMORROW (Wednesday) on the Paycheck Fairness Act--and it's going to be a close one. Many Senators say they're still deciding which way to vote! So we're sending clam-o-grams, making calls, sending letters, meeting in-person with elected leaders to share our real...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

It's November and the holidays are fast approaching. But will out of work families be left out in the cold? On November 30, federal unemployment insurance is set to expire. Yet millions of families are relying on extended federal unemployment insurance to stay afloat financially. MomsRising members...

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Donna Norton

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was founded in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt and other liberal luminaries in order to protect the legacy of her husband, the recently-deceased President Franklin Roosevelt, a legacy that included unemployment insurance (UI). That legacy was under attack by a...

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Michael J. Wilson

Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

I was laid off from my job about three months ago. Unemployment today is unlike anything I have experienced in my lifetime. First of all, it was completely unexpected. Another major adjustment was to get used to a check of $494 biweekly and $25 worth of food stamps per month. Unfortunately, since I...

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Families & The Federal Budget Blog Carnivals

11/16/10

by Jasmine Tucker The unemployment situation is dire, especially among those who have been jobless for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, the situation is not likely to get better any time soon—national unemployment in October was above nine percent for the 18th consecutive month and is...

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Thao Nguyen