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August 28, 2017
Remember the Iceberg
When I see armed men carrying Nazi flags, raising stiff-arm salutes and spewing anti-Semitic chants, I picture my relatives in the town of Borisov in…
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August 1, 2017
Time to Care for All of Us
On August 5, 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a law 9 years in the making, took effect. The FMLA brought huge change…
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August 1, 2017
The Wage Gap Persists for a Reason
It’s time again to recognize the day when the earnings of black women catch up with the previous year’s earnings of white, non-Hispanic, (a.k.a. white)…
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July 24, 2017
Wins Make a Difference
What a difference a win makes – especially 40 of them. Recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show a significant rise in the number…
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July 12, 2017
Fact Checking Ivanka Trump’s Reply to Wall Street Journal on Paid Family Leave
Ivanka writes (Ellen Bravo's response highlighted): Providing a national guaranteed paid-leave program isn’t an entitlement, it’s an investment in America’s working families. Yes! If only…
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July 1, 2017
Arizona’s New Paid Sick and Safe Days Law Recognizes All Families
As our communities are processing the election results, many are afraid of losing access to basic needs, being separated from loved ones, and experiencing further…
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June 27, 2017
Picture it: Paid Leave, the Movie
A scrappy band of workers, business owners, health care professionals, community groups, union members and legislators come together to pass a law so that all…
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June 16, 2017
Value All Care and Every Family
You seldom see legislators tear up as they argue for a piece of legislation. But that’s what happened recently when Connecticut state senators made the…
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June 7, 2017
Stop the Attack on the Women’s Bureau
By Wendy Chun-Hoon Today, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta heads to the Hill to defend the Trump Administration’s proposed 20% cut to the US Department of…
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June 1, 2017
Spotlighting Transgender Issues to Cover Multi-Issue Legislative Attacks
Last month, North Carolina enacted HB2, a law that targets transgender people while also broadly attacking workers and local democracy. The full implications of HB2 have not…
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