Realistic & Fair Wages

Open Flexible Work Realistic & Fair Wages

May 12, 2013

After a long week at work, and the weekend filled with two soccer games, a dance recital and a birthday party, I’ll drive 75 minutes to visit my mother this Mother’s Day. There’s no time for breakfast in bed, a manicure/pedicure with friends or dinner and a movie. That’s okay; that’s not what this...

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Liz O'Donnell

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

April 9, 2013

I’m having a head/desk day. You know the kind; where you just want to bang your head on your desk because you’re so frustrated. Why? Because today is Equal Pay Day – the day that marks how far into 2013 women have to work to earn what men earned for the same work in 2012. And at the rate we're...

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Ruth Martin

Realistic & Fair Wages

March 26, 2013

My name is Duane Davis, and I’m a proud father of my beautiful five-year-old daughter. I worked at Juicy Couture’s flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City for almost four years in the stock department, filling Juicy’s shelves with $200 track suits. When I started, I got 40 hours a week and...

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Duane Davis

Realistic & Fair Wages

November 28, 2012

As we find ourselves in the frenzy of holiday spending and gift giving, you may be surprised to know that the amount of student loan debt across the country actually exceeds the amount of credit card debt. It used to be that borrowing to buy a house or earn a college degree was called “good debt.”...

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Valerie Young

Realistic & Fair Wages

November 20, 2012

Crack researchers at the American Association of University Women ( AAUW ) have long been seeking the reasons behind the the difference in men’s and women’s earnings. New findings with far reaching implications were revealed as they unveiled their report, “ Graduating to a Pay Gap ”, via a briefing...

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Valerie Young

MomsVote Realistic & Fair Wages Health Care

October 29, 2012

There's an elephant in the living room, and she's getting impatient. While many politicians stand ready to support the stabilizing impact and economic importance of gender equality overseas; too often those same politicians turn their backs on gender equality policies here at home. In the last...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

MomsVote Realistic & Fair Wages

October 26, 2012

By the time you read this, we will have survived the third and final debate and we’ll be in the final countdown to Election Day. But I can’t help it, people: I’m still shaking my head over Mitt Romney and his binders full of women. Of course I am thankful, along with so many voters, for the comedy...

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Ann Hedreen

Realistic & Fair Wages Health Care Food!

October 24, 2012

By Saru Jayaraman and Joann Lo Big Food companies and their lobbying groups have lied to us many times. They convinced Congress to include tomato paste on pizzas as a vegetable . They say we need industrial, chemical-laden agriculture to feed the world (check out Anna Lappé’s new video Food...

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Jayaraman Saru

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days MomsVote Realistic & Fair Wages

October 19, 2012

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...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Realistic & Fair Wages

September 16, 2012

Data from the U.S. Census released this week revealed the sobering fact the gender wage gap is not closing; the 2011 data is not statistically different from the 2010 data. Last year, the median earnings of women who worked full time, year-round was 77 percent of that for men working full time,...

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Liz O'Donnell