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Posted August 25th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Alan Simpson, former US Senator from Wyoming and current Co-Chair of the President’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has crossed the line. We’re all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. And when he didn’t like the facts, he took to personal insults and profanity. Check out hisoutrageous email to Ashley Carson, [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Paid sick leave is sometimes described as a conflict between employers and employees, and it’s often framed as worker greed versus small business owner just trying to get by. But this issue is bigger than workers and employers. It’s also about families, colleagues and customers. Families need to be taken care of. If a primary [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Workers have always needed to care for their children, families and elderly relatives, and at the same time, be productive, responsible employees. For women, this breadth of responsibilities is felt with greater pressure, as women are more often the primary caregivers at home in addition to their paid outside employment. But today, when workplaces don’t provide the basic labor [...]
Posted January 19th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Contact your Senators by calling 1-800-998-0180, and tell them “NO on the Fast Track Commission!” Next week, the Senate will vote on this special Fast-Track Commission, which some in Washington say is needed to fix our budget deficit. Don’t believe it. They really want to cut Social Security. STOP the Fast-Track Commission. Go to www.SocialSecurityMatters.org. [...]
Posted December 21st, 2009 by Natale Zimmer
Age discrimination in the form of age rating, the practice of allowing private insurers to charge people higher premiums solely based on age, is wrong. And Congress is buying the false argument from the insurance companies that without age rating, insurance will be too expensive for younger people. But that’s not really why the insurers [...]
