The Healthy Families Act, a federal bill that would allow workers to earn seven paid sick days a year, was just introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Portland, Ore., was the most recent city to pass an ordinance granting workers earned paid sick leave. Will New York follow suit? The push for [...]
Last July, Felix Trinidad died after working for months with cancer. He wasn’t able to earn paid sick days and he was so worried about losing pay or possibly even his job – and his ability to support his wife and two small children – that he put off going to the doctor until it [...]
Sheryl Sandberg is telling women to “lean in.” She’s encouraging us to strive for bigger and better jobs. She’s telling us to resist “leaving before we leave” in anticipation of having families. Through her “lean in circles,” women will have opportunities to share success stories about how leaning in to their careers, while also having [...]
Here at MomsRising, we work virtually–on the phone and on our computers. Somehow, that hasn’t stopped us from passing around this mean winter bug that has made national news headlines the past two weeks. Every other day one of us was sending icky morning email updates about fevers and persistent coughs we were battling, kids’ [...]
Connecticut is beginning work to develop a Family and Medical leave insurance program that can provide much needed relief to families and businesses. Employees get sick, aging parents need assistance, and families want to spend time with their newborns. We can learn a lot from the experiences of California and New Jersey as we make plans in Connecticut.
What a week! The “binders full of women” quote exploded in a wide ranging national conversation. It appeared everywhere from Facebook images going viral to people writing hilarious reviews of binders on Amazon. But while pundits analyze the “binders” issue, we at MomsRising have some additional women’s economic security policy questions that must be addressed. You see, after [...]
My name is Tamara Green, and I’m a single mother of two from Bed Stuy in Brooklyn. For two years, I was a top salesperson at Estee Lauder’s Aveda store in Grand Central Station. I was just forced to quit because my hours had gotten cut to just 10 hours a week – My last [...]
Late yesterday, it became disappointingly clear that voters in Orange County will not see a proposal for earned sick time on their ballots in November. Despite the will of at least 46,000 Orange County voters and a broad coalition of workers, businesses and advocates who played by the rules, Mayor Teresa Jacobs and county commissioners [...]
I am so mad right now I can barely sit down to type this. At this moment I’m home from work with a sick baby. She spiked a fever in the middle of the night, woke up crying and hot with a fever over 101 degrees. She can’t go to childcare today. I’m home with [...]
In honor of Labor Day and the 44 million workers around the country who lack paid sick leave, IWPR released a briefing paper that recommends the Auditor of the District of Columbia conduct a thorough and complete review that shows the impact of the city’s paid sick leave policy. In March 2008, the District of [...]
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