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June 12, 2014
Paid Leave: The Best Gift for Father’s Day
by Ellen Bravo “Do I abandon my family or abandon the job that feeds my family?” That’s how one man described the dilemma many fathers…
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May 20, 2014
White House Summit on Working Families
The member coalitions of Family Values @ Work are proud to help build momentum for the White House Summit on Working Families. Activists on the…
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May 15, 2014
Making the Road in New York: A Model for Work-Family Policy Change
In New York City this week, just one day after Mother's Day, working families and activists gathered to discuss their efforts to really value mothers…
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April 10, 2014
Voices from the Frontlines
Work doesn’t work for too many Americans. In this short play, two characters bring us multiple Voices from the Frontlines, sharing the realities of work…
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April 7, 2014
Equal Pay for Women Requires Paid Time to Care
by Ellen Bravo As we pause to commemorate Equal Pay Day – the day well into the year when the earnings of women working full…
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April 4, 2014
Boomer & Pals’ Call on Paternity Leave = Foul Play
by Ellen Bravo When the ump makes a bad call in baseball, the team can now cry foul, call for an expanded instant replay –…
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March 20, 2014
President Obama Calls for Paid Leave Policies
by Ellen Bravo In his most expansive statement yet in support of paid leave policies, President Barack Obama today declared that women deserve “workplace policies…
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March 6, 2014
Minnesota Joins States Working to Win Paid Sick Days
by Liz Doyle, TakeAction Minnesota Minnesota’s Earned Sick & Safe Time bill passed out of the House of Representative’s Labor, Workplace, and Regulated Industries Committee…
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February 26, 2014
New York City Expands Paid Sick Days Law
More than a quarter million New Yorkers got a big boost yesterday when the City Council voted 45-6 to expand its paid sick days law.…
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February 11, 2014
Out in the Cold
By Ellen Bravo The cold isn’t just extreme – it’s expensive. It means higher heating bills, more spending on car repairs, and more taxpayer money…
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