Family Economic Security

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Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

March 27, 2020

With everything going on right now, it's great to have some good news to celebrate. Today, Governor Inslee signed SB 5473 into law, a bill that will examine the barriers that family caregivers experience when trying to access unemployment insurance. There is no way to overstate this: Washington...

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Maggie Humphreys

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

March 23, 2020

Twelve years have passed since the onset of what we call the Great Recession. Now, as the effects of the coronavirus-spawned COVID-19 pandemic send the U.S. economy hurtling into another recession, or possibly depression, and Congress wrestles with designing the components of an urgent policy...

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Mitchell Hirsch

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

March 14, 2020

Listen, I’m going to get real with you. I know that you might be more than a little anxious right now and unsure of what is going on with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spreading. I am too. The good news is that late last night Speaker Nancy Pelsoi and leaders in the U.S. House of...

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Elyssa Schmier

Family Economic Security MomsRising Near You

March 13, 2020

Victory! Thanks to the advocacy of moms and families across Washington, the Washington State Legislature is ending the 2020 legislative session with some major victories on childcare and early learning, maternal health, comprehensive sex ed, and unemployment insurance access for family caregivers!...

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Maggie Humphreys

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

March 12, 2020

El Programa de Permisos Familiares y Médicos Pagados (PFML) de Washington, administrado por el Departamento para la Seguridad en el Empleo (ESD) del estado de Washington, fue lanzado el 2 de enero de 2020. Este es el primer programa de este tipo en ser desarrollado a partir de cero y la demanda por...

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Maggie Humphreys

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

March 10, 2020

It’s this simple: paid sick days will help limit the spread of the coronavirus but over 32 million workers in our country – many of them in the food service industry – don’t have access to any!

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Sara Alcid

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

March 10, 2020

Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program, which is run by the Employment Security Department (ESD) of Washington State, launched on January 2, 2020. This is the first program of its kind to be built from scratch and, demand for the program has been much higher than anyone expected...

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Maggie Humphreys

Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days

March 9, 2020

"America’s moms are thrilled that U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Rosa DeLauro introduced emergency paid sick days legislation last week. The Paid Sick Days for Public Health Emergencies and Personal and Family Care Act is an urgently needed bill that would allow every employee to take up to seven...

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Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days

March 5, 2020

It’s this simple: paid sick days will help limit the spread of the coronavirus in New York, but over one million workers in our state – many of them in the food service industry – don’t have access to any!

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Sara Alcid

Family Economic Security Immigration Paid Family Leave Social & Emotional Development

February 14, 2020

Happy Valentine's Day!! Happy Galentine's Day (Feb 13)! And Happy Friday. There are so many reasons to celebrate those we love, cherish and respect ... like YOU! Thank you for all yoåu do today - and every day - to demand communities and an economy that work for us all. On that note, please scroll...

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