Tag: working families
October 5, 2023
Why I’m Leading DIVE
By Staci Bryant, State Lead Imagine a Democracy where the people have a voice in the decisions that are made about them, their families and…
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June 6, 2023
Debt Ceiling Deal Statement
The Family Values @ Work Network is glad that Congress and President Biden agreed to raise the debt ceiling. This plan avoids the most harmful…
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March 15, 2022
Next Steps
by Ellen Bravo FV@W Co-Founder Ellen Bravo Nearly two decades ago, I was among a small group of women who helped found the Family Values…
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August 19, 2021
Equal Pay Day: Black women must work eight extra months to earn the same as white men
By U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Jenya Cassidy, director, California Work & Family Coalition The 2021 wage gap of $0.63 means that it takes…
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March 18, 2021
Statement on the Atlanta-Area Spa Shootings
Family Values @ Work joins our partner, 9to5 Georgia, and millions of Americans in condemning the shootings that took eight lives this week in the…
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July 15, 2019
Stand Together for Immigrant Families
By Ellen Bravo My mother’s mother arrived at Ellis Island in the early 1900s as an unaccompanied minor, a teenager alone who spoke no English…
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August 28, 2017
Remember the Iceberg
When I see armed men carrying Nazi flags, raising stiff-arm salutes and spewing anti-Semitic chants, I picture my relatives in the town of Borisov in…
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April 26, 2017
What’s Wrong with Comp Time? Ask Government Workers
Once again, Martha Roby (R-AL) has introduced the same discredited comp time bill that leaders in her party have been pushing for years. She’s joined…
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April 4, 2017
Beware Phony Flexibility Bill
Politicians aren’t always smart, but they’re often shrewd. Say your party has been drawing a lot of heat and needs to show it's doing something…
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February 15, 2017
Worker Protests Force Puzder Withdrawal
Today’s news that Andrew Puzder has withdrawn as the Secretary of Labor nominee shows the power of workers coming together with other activists to make…
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