Month: June 2012
June 26, 2012
“Having it All?”—The Wrong Question for Most Women
By Ellen Bravo | June 26, 2012 As it has done at least once a decade for the past 40 years, the media seems intent…
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June 25, 2012
The Ongoing Struggle To Balance Career And Family
From the Diane Rehm Show: The Ongoing Struggle to Balance Career and Family Working mothers have long struggled to balance career and family. Diane and…
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June 20, 2012
End Unchecked Use of ‘Job Killer’ Allegations
The right wing relies on an old method of deception: repeat something often enough and people will begin to accept it as fact. And when…
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June 15, 2012
How to Honor Our Fathers
By Karen S. White The media talks a lot about women as the traditional family caregiver. But as we look forward to Father’s Day celebrations,…
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June 12, 2012
Who Cares For – and About – Sick Kids?
by Ellen Bravo Note to all legislators and other decision-makers: If you care about children, you must pay attention to what is happening to their…
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June 11, 2012
‘When Workers Work Sick, It’s Unhealthy for All of Us’: New York’s Battle for Paid Sick Leave
The U.S. is the only rich country in the world that fails to guarantee workers some form of paid sick leave. June 7, 2012 …
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June 9, 2012
The business benefits of earned sick time
Guest Column By Dean Cycon and John Abrams When we started our Massachusetts-based businesses, South Mountain Company in 1975 and Dean's Beans Organic Coffee in…
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June 6, 2012
Paid Sick Days Act makes business sense, says report by Small Business United
Having loyal workers outweighs costs, prevents risk to public health, survey finds Albor Ruiz Right now, in New York, the greatest city in the world,…
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June 4, 2012
Get a Glimpse Behind the Kitchen Door
Cage-free chicken grilled by a sneezing chef. Organic salad brought to you by a coughing server. Are we really eating healthier when we don't know what…
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June 1, 2012
Tell Walmart to Stop Firing Workers for Being Sick!
Today Walmart is celebrating their fiftieth anniversary at their shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Not everyone will be joining the party. Angela Williamson was recently…
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