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July 10, 2012
K Street Files: Activists Lobby for Paid Leave
More than 200 activists are visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill today to lobby for legislation that would grant workers a minimum number of sick days…
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July 9, 2012
What ‘having it all’ really means
Whether a woman can have a successful career and an engaged home life, the question debated yet again after Anne-Marie Slaughter posed in this month’s…
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July 5, 2012
Orange mandatory-sick-time initiative gains steam
In what may be the biggest political campaign in Central Florida right now, an army of paid and volunteer petition workers is swarming through Orange…
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July 3, 2012
Sick of It
On June 28, while all eyes were on the Supreme Court decision on President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act – most notably its effects on…
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June 26, 2012
“Having it All?”—The Wrong Question for Most Women
By Ellen Bravo | June 26, 2012 As it has done at least once a decade for the past 40 years, the media seems intent…
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June 25, 2012
The Ongoing Struggle To Balance Career And Family
From the Diane Rehm Show: The Ongoing Struggle to Balance Career and Family Working mothers have long struggled to balance career and family. Diane and…
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June 20, 2012
End Unchecked Use of ‘Job Killer’ Allegations
The right wing relies on an old method of deception: repeat something often enough and people will begin to accept it as fact. And when…
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June 15, 2012
How to Honor Our Fathers
By Karen S. White The media talks a lot about women as the traditional family caregiver. But as we look forward to Father’s Day celebrations,…
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June 12, 2012
Who Cares For – and About – Sick Kids?
by Ellen Bravo Note to all legislators and other decision-makers: If you care about children, you must pay attention to what is happening to their…
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June 11, 2012
‘When Workers Work Sick, It’s Unhealthy for All of Us’: New York’s Battle for Paid Sick Leave
The U.S. is the only rich country in the world that fails to guarantee workers some form of paid sick leave. June 7, 2012 …
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