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02/05/13

Today the Family Medical Leave Act turns 20. Over the last 20 years, FMLA has been used an estimated 100 million times -- giving job protected unpaid leave to employees welcoming a new child, caring for an ailing loved one, or managing their own serious or chronic illness. We asked our members to...

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Charlie Rose

Paid Family Leave

02/05/13

Today we celebrate 20 years of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). This ground-breaking legislation, signed into law by President Clinton, sent a powerful statement across the country about the role our government has in strengthening families. It said loud and clear that above all -- family...

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Carol Joyner

Paid Family Leave

02/05/13

TODAY, as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), I believe we should take this opportunity to reflect on the incredible impact this legislation has had on millions of working families across our country. From the janitor in Houston taking care of an ailing parent...

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Mary Kay Henry

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

02/05/13

2013 is the year that the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) turns 20. For 20 years, the FMLA has been used to provide job-protected, unpaid leave for people across the country to recover from a serious illness, care for a new child, or care for a seriously ill spouse, parent, or child. Send a Happy...

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Ruth Martin

02/04/13

As a parent, one of your worst nightmares is not being able to provide for your children. Unfortunately, it’s a nightmare that’s come true for far too many North Carolina parents in recent years due to no fault of their own. With the fifth highest unemployment rate in the nation, tens of thousands...

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Beth Messersmith

Gun Safety

02/04/13

When one mom I know turned on her TV and saw the breaking news about a gunman at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, she stood up and started shouting, “No!” and throwing pieces of laundry she had been folding at the TV screen. Another mom I know got straight into her car to bring her...

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Gloria Pan

Paid Family Leave

02/04/13

The Department of Labor (DOL) has just released the results of two new surveys on the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). These are the first surveys conducted by the DOL on the FMLA in over a decade. Released just in time for the 20th anniversary of the passage of the FMLA, the results give us...

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Jodie Levin-Epstein

Immigration

02/04/13

This article first appeared in Crosscut.com . It’s game on for immigration reform in 2013 . Prospects for a real immigration bill this year took a big step forward last week as a bipartisan “Gang of Eight” Senators released its framework for an immigration bill , and President Obama staked out his...

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Pramila Jayapal

Environmental Health Health Care

02/04/13

In 1990, when I lived in Los Angeles, my 4-year old son and I were both poisoned by the aerial spraying of malathion. The state had sprayed vast residential areas in an attempt to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly—a devastating pest that threatened California’s multi-billion dollar agriculture...

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Ruth Berlin

Immigration

02/03/13

What happens in Vegas shouldn't always stay in Vegas. Earlier this week, in a crammed high school basketball stadium in Las Vegas, I heard President Obama speak about the need to finally, truly fix our broken immigration system so that it's fair and also brings economic strength to our entire...

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