Politics & Policy

June 16, 2014

Mark Tyler and I have been talking about the ups and downs of being the at home parent. I asked him to write a post about his experience. After several weeks of writing between bouts of cooking, cleaning, hugging, story- telling, dressing, playing, undressing, bathing, brushing, combing, driving,...

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Valerie Young

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

June 13, 2014

Here are some of the budget trade-offs we could make to help Millenials attain higher education without burgeoning student loan debt.

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Robin Claremont

Politics & Policy

June 13, 2014

We were sitting around on the living room floor, watching our kids flash by us as they ran in circles around the house. Three moms, brought together only by our children, talking about those kids as one of our few common topics of conversation, as relaxed as the situation will allow. Until one of...

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Rev. Eliza Buchakjian-Tweedy

Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

June 12, 2014

We're republishing this piece in celebration of Women's Equality Day and all Rep. Patsy Mink did to move women's rights forward.

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Shay Chan Hodges

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 10, 2014

Last week, moms who work at Walmart walked off the job across the country. Joined by co-workers and allies, they have been calling for respect and decent wages—at least $25,000 a year—and demanding an end to retaliation against employees who speak out for better working conditions. They also took...

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Liz Shuler

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 9, 2014

Newsflash: Child care is expensive . In a majority of states, the cost of child care for an infant exceeds the cost of public college tuition . That cost pinches the wallets of all families with young children in paid child care. For low-income families, it’s much more than a pinch— on average,...

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Susanna Birdsong

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 9, 2014

Early childhood education continues to receive growing support from within Pennsylvania. Through the statewide Pre-K for PA campaign, educators and community leaders are not the only ones expressing a commitment to investing in the state's youngest learners. Former Gov. Ed Rendell (D) and Former...

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Mary E. Mannix

Politics & Policy

June 8, 2014

Volví a Miami, Florida recientemente para visitar a mi madre por el Día de las Madres, y encontré un montón de mis viejos CDs mezclados de cuando tenía 15 años. Decidí escuchar uno y lo que oí era una combinación asombrosa de Shakira, Boys to Men, Enrique Iglesias y Savage Garden. Escucharlo me...

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Jeannina Perez

Politics & Policy

June 8, 2014

I went back to Miami, Florida recently to visit my mom for Mother’s Day and found a bunch of my old mixed CDs from when I was 15. I decided to give one a listen and what I heard was an amazing amalgamation of Shakira, Boys to Men, Enrique Iglesias, and Savage Garden. Listening to it made me smile,...

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Jeannina Perez

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

June 5, 2014

My friend and colleague in the fight for family caregivers, Janice Lynch Schuster, recently had a conversation with her children about what may happen when she becomes older. It went like this, as Janice wrote in Fierce Urgency of Now: Family Caregivers and the Future that is Upon Us for the blog...

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Valerie Young