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December 10, 2012
Why We All Have a Stake in Immigration Reform
By Ellen Bravo I’m reading Junot Diaz’s new book and my head is swimming with images of Ana Iris, a Dominican mother of three who…
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December 7, 2012
Valuing Families: Forward, Together
State activists joined national allies and funders at the Ford Foundation December 4 to celebrate nine years of successes by Family Values @ Work. We…
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November 16, 2012
The STUFF American Voters Want
If ads saturate the networks before the elections, punditry clogs the airwaves right after. This year brought us a much-repeated pearl from Fox News guru,…
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November 12, 2012
Football and Family
By Ellen Bravo I’m a die-hard Packers fan, but I have to hand it to Bears cornerback Charles Tillman, who was determined to be with…
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November 9, 2012
Long Beach Hotel Workers Win Living Wages, Paid Sick Days
Two thousand workers who clean the rooms and serve the food at hotels in Long Beach, California had special cause for celebration election night. They…
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November 2, 2012
Protesters Greet NFIB Bus Tour in Orlando
When the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) rolled into Orlando with its “I Built My Business” bus tour, they ran into some unexpected company…
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November 1, 2012
Earning Paid Sick Days Promotes Equity
Communities need paid sick days to keep people healthy, to help workers stay employed, to boost the economy. But as a Halloween rally in Portland…
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October 17, 2012
Miami Community Leaders Call for Earned Sick Time
With the support of more than 40 community organizations, the Miami-Dade Coalition for Healthy Families and Workplaces today kicked off its campaign to guarantee that…
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October 5, 2012
Speaker Quinn: Listen to the Children
Who are the best people to deliver 50,000 signatures on a petition about paid sick days to City Hall? Kids, of course. Babies in strollers,…
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September 26, 2012
New Website Exposes NFIB as N-FIB
Activists across the country working to advance earned time laws are all-too-familiar with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and its dishonest tactics to…
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