Kelly Dasa
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January 8, 2014
I’ve been reading a lot about the “war” on poverty, what with today being the 50th anniversary of the declaration of “unconditional” war on the awful predicament. On this day in 1964, LBJ traveled to Martin County, KY and announced the creation of programs that are still in place today: Medicaid, Medicare, Head Start, food stamps, and tax cuts, to name a few. The poverty rate was about 20% then. The poverty rate today is 15%. Say what you will about why the rate has decreased so little (hello income inequality, globalization, low minimum wage ), but it’s clear that the poor haven’t been...
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November 20, 2013
How much do you value the workers of PA? Each work day, I drop off my 2 year old at her daycare so that I can go to work. They make sure that she is safe, fed, gets exercise, learns her colors, and interacts (nicely) with other children. In other words – what they do is priceless and enables me to provide for my family. Her teachers are part of only 27% of childcare workers who receive paid sick days. It is because they are given this respect as a whole person, as parents themselves, that turnover is low and morale is high. It gives them the will to happily sing “Puff the Magic Dragon” for...
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October 22, 2013
“Aw, man – we have to play GIRLS??” Without the sun, the temperature quickly dropped to the low 50s. Fans huddled on the sidelines, clutching coffees and supporting their respective teams. Tension filled the air of the leafy suburban town as the final whistle blew on this U10 travel soccer game, a chance to play under the lights on this crisp fall night, just like the pros. The defeated boys threw off their matching headbands and trudged off the field toward the sidelines. They had just lost. To girls. This game actually happened on Friday night. My daughter’s team beat the boys, and then...
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June 25, 2013
Ed.: MomsRising member and blogger Dasa Kelly responds to a recent op/ed in the New York Times about the stamina of sexism in our culture. Oh, where to begin. What this , Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Anne Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic piece , and others fail to mention in the ongoing debate on women in the workforce and - more broadly, what these trends say about sexism in our society - is how women get to Congress or the boardroom in the first place. Where is talk of paid maternity leave , school schedules that are currently based on an agrarian calendar and that require $$ camps/$$aftercare/trying...
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