Tag: Paid Family Leave
May 17, 2023
Healthy Families Act and FAMILY Act Reintroduced in 118th Congress
Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) reintroduced the Healthy Families Act, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and U.S.…
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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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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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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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June 29, 2022
Implementation Day 2022: Grieving Our Losses, Celebrating Our Wins
By: Marianne Bellesorte We live in a country where heartbreak surrounds us: the loss of over 1 million lives to COVID-19, the desolating toll of…
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June 14, 2022
The Father I Want to Be
by Preston Van Vliet TW: transphobic parent, mention of disownment The written plan, now crumpled in my lap, forecasted the routes this conversation could go…
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