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August 5, 2021
This Is Our Moment
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Yesterday, Carol Joyner, director of the Labor Project for Working Families at Family Values @ Work, joined House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi…
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June 22, 2021
Transgender dad: “I used to have to celebrate Father’s Day in secret.”
The following op-ed originally ran in USA Today on June 18, 2021. I never celebrated Mother's Day, even when I looked like a woman. This year, think…
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June 21, 2021
Paid Leave Equity Matters
Paid family and medical leave (PFML) policies provide workers with partial wage replacement so that they can afford to take time to care for and…
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June 16, 2021
My Personal Journey to Juneteenth
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Staci Lowry [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] As a Black woman living in America, I have felt undervalued, unappreciated, unheard and unseen more times than I can…
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June 15, 2021
Listening to Workers
Family Values @ Work’s state partners have won major policy advances for working families, including paid family and medical leave, paid sick and safe days,…
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June 1, 2021
How I Survived the Pandemic with My Job at FV@W
by Alexis Jackson, Development Manager at FV@W At the start of the pandemic, I was five months pregnant with a husband, an 8-year-old whose school…
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May 20, 2021
Paid Leave Is a Black Queer Family Issue
By Dr. Charmaine Lang One of the limiting beliefs that I challenge in my activism and scholarly work is that Black women are a monolith:…
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May 19, 2021
We’re Getting Close to Paid Leave for Us All!
The Family Values @ Work National Paid Leave Rally pulled out all of the stops last week to ensure that the nation understands the pivotal…
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May 4, 2021
Workers Speaking Up for Paid Leave
The pandemic was a giant wake-up call for the nation about the centrality of care. We saw how interdependent we are: Our own health depends…
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April 22, 2021
Why I Need Congress to Pass Inclusive Paid Leave
by Bethany Santos Fauteux I am a state certified early childhood educator and worked for a childcare center that did not provide paid leave. Most…
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