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March 29, 2023
Podcast: The Future of Work
Josephine Kalipeni, Executive Director at Family Values at Work, joins Wendy Conrad on The Internal Customer Handbook Podcast to talk about family leave, workplace policy…
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February 28, 2023
Podcast: Caregiving Dads Are Pushing for Paid Leave
Sammy Chavin-Grant, Family Values @ Work's Federal Policy Manager, joined the Home Dad Chat podcast team to discuss caregiving issues and the roles Dads are…
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February 16, 2023
Lobbying Is For Everyone
By Teena Lewis When I accepted my role at Family Values at Work four months ago, I had no idea of the enriching liberation work…
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February 13, 2023
The Time is Right For a Strike
Family Values @ Work, a network that works to secure paid family and medical leave for all, is supporting Strike For Our Rights, a nonpartisan…
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February 7, 2023
Lobbying for Rookies
By Safiya Simmons This week, I joined my colleagues in our first virtual lobby days. It was intense for me, a lobbying rookie, but it…
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January 26, 2023
No One Prepared Us for Tripledemic Parenting – But Congress Can and Should Provide Support
By Rachel Mannino My six year old son was in pain, bent over, clutching his stomach and crying. He’d been sent home from school with…
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January 24, 2023
20 Years of Winning for Workers and Their Families
Family Values @ Work is excited to celebrate our 20th anniversary this year. For two decades we’ve kept up the drum beat for the need…
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December 8, 2022
Caregivers: Invisible No More
Caregivers are exhausted, fed up, and angry. But all of us, everyone, should be frustrated by the nationwide failure to support caregivers. “Caregiver” is the…
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November 8, 2022
Grounded in Faith: The Right To Choose
For many states, this election was a referendum on a woman’s right to choose. Whether abortion access was on the ballot explicitly, or indirectly through…
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September 26, 2022
National Family Day
by MaKeda Scott Family Values @ Work and our state partners are happy to celebrate National Family Day today. Family is not always who you’re…
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