News & Views
June 4, 2013
Caregivers merit temporary insurance
One of the greatest lessons I've learned as a small-business owner is that the best ideas are often rooted in simple common sense. Common sense,…
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May 31, 2013
Making the Case for a State Paid Leave Fund in the Federal Budget
Federal budgets conjure up huge volumes of paper and mind-bending columns of numbers. That wasn’t the case on May 29, when some grassroots leaders from…
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May 31, 2013
Connecticut Must Not Erode the Nation’s First Statewide Paid Sick Days Law
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association is pushing a bill, SB 1007, to cut back the first statewide paid sick days bill. Family Values @…
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May 28, 2013
No Vacation Nation
A recent study reveals that the U.S. is only country in the developed world that doesn't require businesses to provide paid vacation days for employees.…
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May 26, 2013
A Work-Life Ways to Go
It’s not a women’s issue, or a children’s issue, or a strictly personal issue. It’s about who we are as a nation—and who we want…
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May 23, 2013
Paid sick leave bill is long overdue: Editorial
When most people think of paid sick leave these days, they think of public employee contracts that allow workers to cash in unused sick days,…
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May 13, 2013
Connected By the Care We Need and the Care We Give
by Wendy Chun-Hoon My beloved professor of philanthropy, Mr. Payton, was always asking tough questions. “How will our country handle our aging? As we live…
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May 13, 2013
Wisconsin State Journal
This Mothers' Day, give Wisconsin moms what we really need -- the opportunity to earn paid time off so we can stay home to care…
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May 13, 2013
City Council Approves Bill Mandating Sick-Day Pay
The New York City Council, after years of impassioned debate, approved a bill on Wednesday that will require many businesses to offer paid time off…
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May 10, 2013
On Mother’s Day, consider paid parental leave: Opinion
This Sunday, as we honor mothers — send flowers, wine them and dine them — we should also reflect on how we treat mothers the…
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