Paid Family Leave

January 16, 2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Whenever the federal government or state legislature proposes paid family leave for workers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately decries it as a "job killer." As Ruth Milkman, a sociologist professor who helped pass paid family leave in California joked, "If you were to...

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Elisa Batista

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Childcare & Early Education

January 14, 2011

This article originally appeared on New Deal 2.0 . Sunday's New York Times reported that accounting firms lead corporate America in offering workplace flexibility. Employees can reduce their hours, take the summer off, take off a few years and then return to their prior jobs... whatever they need...

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Joan C. Williams

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Health Care

January 4, 2011

Across the country, the New Year means new beginnings. Here in the Golden State our former and just-sworn-in Governor Jerry Brown will bring creative and sometimes austere approaches to tackle an estimated deficit of over $25 billion . For those of us who care about health care and the social...

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Kate Karpilow

Childcare & Early Education Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

December 30, 2010

Cross posted from the Young Women's Leadership Program Blog: Words of Wisdom from Worldly Young Women As I scrolled through my newsfeed on my Facebook page this week I came across a posting written by a friend who has two young children that read, “I make $4.26 a week after daycare. Oh, the joys of...

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Michelle Noehren

Paid Family Leave Health Care

December 17, 2010

Can breastfeeding, working moms expect legislation to support her lactation needs? The answer is “yes” thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that President Obama signed on March 23rd, 2010. Federal Health Reform and Nursing Mothers President Obama signed the Patient Protection...

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Janet Hutton

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care

November 4, 2010

Political pundits are spinning away in the wake of the elections, making guesses about what the election results say about the will of the voters. But it's too critical a time for our country to let the paid pundits have the last word. Moms (and dads!) know more than any political pundit about what...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

October 31, 2010

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org I was at Rutgers University on October 19th for the "What Mothers Want" conference and it was a mamapalooza of the first order. It'd be hard to say who was the more interesting - the experts...

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Valerie Young

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

October 29, 2010

by Robert Drago and Jeffrey Hayes New data collected for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) by Precision Opinion finds widespread support across party lines, gender, race and ethnicity for policies that will assist working families and protect workers’ rights, especially for low...

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Robert Drago

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

October 15, 2010

We know the value of unions to working Americans: unionized workers make more money, have more access to pensions, receive better health insurance, and have safer workplaces. Less known but equally critical is that unionized workers also receive more generous family-friendly benefits – union...

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Brandy Davis

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

September 28, 2010

I recently got an email from a blog reader who said she had been obsessively reading and re-reading my first post , and all the comments that followed it. After years of managing what sounds like a challenging career and raising young children, she said she feared she was on the verge of a nervous...

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