Licia Ronzulli, a member of the European Union’s Parliament from Italy, sat poised and focused in her parliamentary seat. Her right hand raised in a vote, her left hand turning a page on her desk, and wrapped around her body, a newborn baby asleep in a sling. I’m a new mom too, and even though [...]
“If we got even two calls from our constituents about this letter, that would make a huge impression on the Senator,” a Senate staff person recently told us. She was referring to a letter circulating in the halls of the Senate that, if only a handful of Senators sign it, could have broad reaching and [...]
“Many folks don’t have access to any kind of family leave policies whatsoever, no flexible working arrangements, many people don’t even have a paid sick day. So they are struggling…scrambling to make things work…As we all know, here today, it just doesn’t have to be that way. It doesn’t have to be that hard…” Sound [...]
When Ashley’s son started going to child care, he started bringing home more than macaroni art and cute little scribble pictures. He also brought home colds, the flu, pink eye, and a weird unidentifiable rash — all things that meant Ashley needed to miss work to care for him. “I didn’t realize that child care [...]
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If you shop at Wal-Mart to finish up that last bit of holiday shopping this week, you may be coming home with more than a good deal–you might be exposed to contagious illnesses like colds and the flu.
Today a hearing on H1N1 and the need for paid sick days was held in the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions. Currently, 57 million working people across the United States who do not have paid sick leave and are forced to go without pay [...]
Many of us have had to decide whether to send a sick child to school (thinking maybe full of tylenol they might make it to the end of the day…) or taking a day off at work to stay home with them. But sometimes the hoops we jump through can get downright ridiculous. I spoke [...]
Wow. H1N1 is on moms’ minds. Over 33,000 people signed on to the petition we sent around last week, agreeing that: “The United States needs to allow all working people to earn paid sick days to ensure our economic security, and protect public health.” The leaders of our nation are working hard to prepare schools, [...]
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released a statement calling on schools to “ensure instruction continues should the virus cause high absenteeism or school closings” that result from H1N1 (Swine Flu) outbreaks. Duncan suggested schools should evaluate what materials they have available for at-home learning, such as distributing recorded classes on podcasts and [...]
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