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12/12/13

Note: This blog is also set to appear with permission on MomsRising As a California working mother, I join parents and caregivers across the country in applauding the introduction of the FAMILY Act today. As part of an advocacy community that helped pass California’s Paid Family Leave law, I know...

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Jenya Cassidy

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

12/12/13

Twenty years ago, Congress passed the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), mandating that certain employees receive job-protected unpaid leave to care for an immediate family member, a newborn, or a newly adopted child. Signing the law on February 5, 1993, President Bill Clinton said, “Family and...

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Gaylynn Burroughs

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

12/12/13

When fast food workers bravely took to the streets in September to protest the unlivable wages that many earn, the media shone a spotlight on the exploitative and unsustainable practices of some large employers. But while these unscrupulous businesses deserve all the attention they are getting,...

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Liz Ben-Ishai

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

12/12/13

Stephanie was the sole breadwinner for her family when her twins were born three months early and had to be hospitalized. The Wisconsin mother did not have access to paid family leave through her employer, and she couldn’t afford to lose any income by taking unpaid leave. So she went back to work...

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Debra L. Ness

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

12/12/13

At MomsRising, we hear from our members every day about how lack of access to paid family leave (including maternity and paternity leave) has created economic instability for their families. But it’s not surprising that we hear from so many people: In the U.S., only 12 percent of workers have...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security

12/12/13

With millions of students taking part in “Hour of Code,” a campaign supported by technology companies as part of National Computer Science Week , there is a lot of internet chatter about the importance of high-tech skills in an innovation economy. By late Tuesday, more than 60 percent of the...

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Shay Chan Hodges

Paid Sick Days

12/12/13

Winter is on its way and it's bringing the flu. There are many things we do to try and protect our families from flu. We get vaccines, we wash our hands, we convince the little ones in our lives to sneeze or cough into their elbows... but oftentimes we can not do the simplest and best thing we...

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Charlie Rose

12/11/13

Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday. It has assimilated into our culture as the one day out of the year to be thankful for the things and people we have in our lives. It is also the day that we conveniently forget about the colonization and imperialization of indigenous people, but I digress...

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Bianka Salomon

Family Economic Security Families & The Federal Budget

12/11/13

I hear from moms all the time about the challenges they are facing and the bright lights they find through programs that help keep their family’s head above water during tough times. That’s why when I read Grand Rapids, Michigan mom Lisa’s story I could hear the panic and worry leaping right off...

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Elyssa Schmier

Environmental Health

12/11/13

Oh, the pressures of being pregnant! So many people telling you what to do. Eat this, not that! Don't worry about weight gain. Worry about weight gain. Worrying about weight gain will give your baby anxiety. Ahhhh! It can be so overwhelming at times. Thankfully, there are many things that pregnant...

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