Tag: Paid Family Leave
September 1, 2022
Labor Pains: Birthing While Black in America
by Staci Lowry No recognition, awards, or accolades exist for those who birth a child. In the United States, most mothers would probably agree that…
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July 14, 2022
New Faces at Family Values @ Work
This year––and the past few years––have been tough for so many. With what feels like attacks on our freedom left and right, it can be…
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July 12, 2022
Who is leading the fight around time to care in your community?
Every year Family Values @ Work honors worker activists on the frontline of the movement for equitable policies that value workers and their families. Honorees…
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June 29, 2022
Implementation Day 2022: Grieving Our Losses, Celebrating Our Wins
By: Marianne Bellesorte We live in a country where heartbreak surrounds us: the loss of over 1 million lives to COVID-19, the desolating toll of…
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June 14, 2022
The Father I Want to Be
by Preston Van Vliet TW: transphobic parent, mention of disownment The written plan, now crumpled in my lap, forecasted the routes this conversation could go…
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April 14, 2022
Delaware Cares Coalition for Paid Leave Wins Statewide Paid Leave Policy
FV@W applauds the efforts of the Delaware Cares Coalition for Paid Leave to pass a statewide paid family and medical leave program. As an organization…
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March 8, 2022
Honor Women by Honoring Caregiving
by Josie Kalipeni, Executive Director at Family Values @ Work March is Women’s History Month, a time when we honor “sheroes,” those who have dedicated…
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February 3, 2022
FMLA Anniversary 2022: Looking Back to Move Forward
In 1993, President Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) into law, which provides unpaid leave to just over half of US workers.…
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December 20, 2021
Family Values @ Work Decries the Lack of Action on Build Back Better
(WASHINGTON, DC)––Family Values @ Work is a movement network of grassroots coalitions in more than two dozen states working to win paid family and medical…
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December 20, 2021
Even the “Fortunate” Need Paid Leave
Arnel and Sandra Floria West Grove, PA My husband and I both come from families with conservative values who believe in education. We both held…
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