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The Power of Dr. King and Christina Green

January 14, 2011
There is a connection between Dr. King and Christina. But hate is not it. Their death by hate and violence is not their common denominator. They are connected by the love that surrounded their lives. Love is their power.
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Lily Eskelsen
Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Childcare & Early Education

Flexible Scheduling Makes Dollars and Sense

January 14, 2011
This article originally appeared on New Deal 2.0 . Sunday's New York Times reported that accounting firms lead corporate America in offering workplace flexibility. Employees can reduce their hours, take the summer off, take off a few years and then return to their prior jobs... whatever they need...
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Joan C. Williams
Childcare & Early Education

Devastating Cuts Proposed for California Working Families

January 14, 2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On Wednesday, I attended the annual California Working Families Policy Summit, which drew 750 people, including legislators, non-profit groups and policy wonks. On our minds: what to do about California’s $26 billion shortfall as well as proposed budget cuts that will hurt...
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Elisa Batista

Part-Time Work; Still Just for Women?

January 14, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org One factor limiting women's economic security is the approach to part-time work in the US. It has the reputation of being poorly paid (true), mostly done by students, (false), and performed...
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Valerie Young

Living Up To Our Kids' Expectations

January 13, 2011
Last night was the memorial for nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green and the other victims of the January 8th tragedy, which killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life. I'm still stunned with sadness by the horrible events of last Saturday. As the mother of two children, one...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work

Only Human: 7 Keys to survival when your work life is rocked by illness

January 13, 2011
I'm only human despite being a self-proclaimed work life pundit. Fess-up time. My life has been less about the work life merge, and more about life and survival lately.
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Judy Martin

Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Nevada: We need your help!

January 12, 2011
While the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Giffords has postponed the vote to repeal health care reform, we still expect the vote to happen within the next few weeks. We need your help to educate the public and Congress. The fact of the matter is repealing the new health care law known as the...
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Donna Norton

It’s Easier to Get a Gun than Mental Health Care

January 12, 2011
Our current epidemic of mass shootings is but a symptom of our nation’s broken health care system.
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Dora Wang, M.D.

In Unity is Our Security

January 11, 2011
Amidst tragedy in Arizona and a recent assassination in Pakistan days earlier I was moved to write from a deeper place, to share my spiritual perspective. It feels ironic to share these thoughts on 1/11/11 - a day of oneness - but perhaps it points to the fact that our world possesses much more...
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Homa Tavangar
Open Flexible Work

Memo to Accounting Firms: "Pull Back the Curtain"

January 10, 2011
Kyra Cavanaugh, president of Life Meets Work , responds to Flex Time Flourishes in the Accounting Industry , published January 7, 2011 in the New York Times. She challenges the piece which seems to hold forth the notion that major accounting firms have mastered work/life issues, and the idea that...
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Kyra Cavanaugh

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