News & Views
November 20, 2022
Colorado Springs Mass Shooting
(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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November 8, 2022
Grounded in Faith: The Right To Choose
For many states, this election was a referendum on a woman’s right to choose. Whether abortion access was on the ballot explicitly, or indirectly through…
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September 26, 2022
National Family Day
by MaKeda Scott Family Values @ Work and our state partners are happy to celebrate National Family Day today. Family is not always who you’re…
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September 1, 2022
Labor Pains: Birthing While Black in America
by Staci Lowry No recognition, awards, or accolades exist for those who birth a child. In the United States, most mothers would probably agree that…
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August 24, 2022
President Biden Student-Debt Reduction Plan
(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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August 1, 2022
FV@W Expresses Outrage Over 2022 Reconciliation Package
(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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July 21, 2022
Rest Is a Movement Strategy: Why We’re Taking the Week Off, Together
By Josephine Kalipeni I haven’t set a great example for my team. Nine months into becoming the executive director of, but almost two years with,…
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July 14, 2022
New Faces at Family Values @ Work
This year––and the past few years––have been tough for so many. With what feels like attacks on our freedom left and right, it can be…
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July 12, 2022
Who is leading the fight around time to care in your community?
Every year Family Values @ Work honors worker activists on the frontline of the movement for equitable policies that value workers and their families. Honorees…
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July 5, 2022
Still Fighting For Independence
By Josie Kalipeni On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies that would become the first states declared independence from Great Britain. Members of the Continental…
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