Family Economic Security

Family Economic Security Health Care Open Flexible Work

August 5, 2014

Office Lyndi Trischler is pregnant, lives with her one-year old daughter, and will soon have to move out of an apartment she can no longer afford because she’s been pushed out of her job. This is all because her employer, the City of Florence, Kentucky, will not permit any City employees to work with medical restrictions, unless they have been injured on-the-job.

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Dina Bakst

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

August 4, 2014

Could it be that workers whose employers offer leave benefits actually end up getting sick less often because they are happier? Senator Al Franken (D-MN), tongue firmly in cheek, proposed this “radical” idea at a hearing on paid leave held by the Senate Health Economic Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s Subcommittee on Children and Families.

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Liz Ben-Ishai

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

August 2, 2014

This week, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report about Social Security’s finances. As usual, opponents jumped all over it, sounding the alarm bells and calling for drastic cuts. But they got it all wrong: rather than cutting Social Security we need to expand it in ways that would benefit everyone, and particularly women, who rely on the program so much.

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Allegra Baider

Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

August 2, 2014

Today's is the first day of 2014 World Breastfeeding Week. Just earlier this year, Iowa Public Radio broadcasted a remarkable story about Linda Eaton. Eaton was an Iowa City Firefighter. Thirty-five years ago, she continued to breastfeed her child at work against orders from her supervisor, and a breastfeeding discussion was launched locally and gained national attention.

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To-wen Tseng

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

August 2, 2014

Extreme opposition to fair wages knows no bounds - and has proponents in Congress; but in the real world, the Live the Wage challenge shows how badly an increase is needed.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

August 2, 2014

The Ryan poverty plan will create more poverty, not less.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

August 2, 2014

Easy links to learn about Ryan's poverty plan - and the hard questions that must be asked about it.

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Debbie Weinstein

Family Economic Security

August 1, 2014

Queremos agradecer a todas las personas que participaron en el sorteo de MomsRising.org para celebrar el lanzamiento de nuestra nueva página en español MamásConPoder.org . Tuvimos una respuesta extraordinaria por parte de toda la comunidad, mucha gente participó en el sorteo de dos regalos grátis,...

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Xochitl Oseguera

Family Economic Security

July 30, 2014

Una de las realidades de hoy en día es que las mujeres toman tres cuartos de las decisiones de compras en nuestra economía, y cuando las personas no tienen dinero para gastar, nuestra economía sufre como consecuencia.

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Elyssa Schmier

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

July 30, 2014

To highlight just how difficult it is to live on $7.25 – around $15,000 a year for a full-time worker – a host of advocacy groups including MomsRising and the National Employment Law Project (where I work) has issued a challenge: try it.

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