E: Excellent Childcare
Posted May 7th, 2013 by Bruce Lesley
A few weeks ago, Melissa Harris-Perry appeared in a “Lean Forward” promotional ad for MSNBC and said: We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective [...]
Posted April 27th, 2013 by Jo Comerford
They’ve hit a new low. Citing significant concerns about long lines at airports and flight delays caused by the furlough of air-traffic controllers, Congress is allowing the Federal Aviation Administration to override strict sequestration rules and re-direct funds within its budget. And they did so with lightning speed. With their big fuss over aviation punctuality, [...]
Posted March 28th, 2013 by Congresswoman Doris Matsui
As a vice-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s issues, one of Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s (CA-06) top priorities is affordable, reliable childcare. In this video, Congresswoman Matsui speaks with Michelle, a Sacramento resident who has two young children, on the challenges and opportunities facing working mothers. Congresswoman Matsui is committed to working with her colleagues [...]
Posted March 20th, 2013 by Katherine Gallagher Robbins
Yesterday I had the opportunity to take part in a press conference held by several Congresswomen on what the budget proposed by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) would do to women and their families (that’s me standing in front of the flag!). We’ve previously highlighted the ways the Ryan budget would harm women, like dismantling [...]
Posted March 20th, 2013 by Randi Schmidt
Years ago, I attended an event on economic policy where now-Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), was speaking. After the event, I introduced myself to him and shared that I was a former Hill staffer. I told him that, while I disagreed with nearly everything he had said regarding economic policy, I knew [...]
Posted March 18th, 2013 by Nan Mooney
To Whom It May Concern: I’m a single mother with two kids under 3, a full-time student, and working, so I don’t have much time to write. But I have to tell whoever is willing to listen that the daycare subsidy I receive has saved my life. I’m able to go back to school to [...]
Posted March 18th, 2013 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
It’s not a horror movie. It’s not a terrible dream. And it’s not the punch line of an awful joke. This is real. And it’s important. The 2014 national budget that Representative Paul Ryan just proposed, which the U.S. House is expected to vote on this week, is all cuts and no revenues. That’s not [...]
Posted March 14th, 2013 by Paul Nyhan
Gov. Jay Inslee reappointed Dr. Bette Hyde to lead Washington’s Department of Early Learning during the next four years, a critical period when the state will work to ensure that its early learning systems continue to grow and are sustainable. The new governor had been moving through his appointments since taking office in January, [...]
Posted March 12th, 2013 by Terri E. Givens
I have been following the deluge of blog posts, tweets, etc., which followed the publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article on “Having it All”. I gave my own response on “Having a life” in my blog, and also tweeted my take, which led her to quote me in her response. The overall consensus seems to [...]
Posted March 12th, 2013 by Donna Schwartz Mills
I’ve been thinking a lot about women and our place in society the last couple of weeks. This is appropriate, as it is Women’s History Month and was kicked off at PBS with “Makers,” a three-hour documentary on the “second-wave” women’s movement.I sat down to watch it last weekend and was enthralled. I am old [...]
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