News & Views
March 9, 2023
President Biden’s Encouraging Budget – Strongest Ever for Working Families
Family Values @ Work (FVAW) is encouraged by President Biden’s budget which includes the strongest investment ever in funding for working families, particularly funding for…
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February 28, 2023
Podcast: Caregiving Dads Are Pushing for Paid Leave
Sammy Chavin-Grant, Family Values @ Work's Federal Policy Manager, joined the Home Dad Chat podcast team to discuss caregiving issues and the roles Dads are…
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February 16, 2023
Lobbying Is For Everyone
By Teena Lewis When I accepted my role at Family Values at Work four months ago, I had no idea of the enriching liberation work…
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February 13, 2023
The Time is Right For a Strike
Family Values @ Work, a network that works to secure paid family and medical leave for all, is supporting Strike For Our Rights, a nonpartisan…
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February 7, 2023
Lobbying for Rookies
By Safiya Simmons This week, I joined my colleagues in our first virtual lobby days. It was intense for me, a lobbying rookie, but it…
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January 26, 2023
No One Prepared Us for Tripledemic Parenting – But Congress Can and Should Provide Support
By Rachel Mannino My six year old son was in pain, bent over, clutching his stomach and crying. He’d been sent home from school with…
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January 24, 2023
20 Years of Winning for Workers and Their Families
Family Values @ Work is excited to celebrate our 20th anniversary this year. For two decades we’ve kept up the drum beat for the need…
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December 8, 2022
Respect for Marriage Act: An Important Step In Our Democracy
(WASHINGTON, DC) –– Family Values @ Work is a movement network of grassroots coalitions in more than two dozen states working to win paid family…
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December 8, 2022
Caregivers: Invisible No More
Caregivers are exhausted, fed up, and angry. But all of us, everyone, should be frustrated by the nationwide failure to support caregivers. “Caregiver” is the…
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December 1, 2022
FV@W Decries the Senate Vote on Rail Paid Sick Days
(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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