The STUFF American Voters Want
If ads saturate the networks before the elections, punditry clogs the airwaves right after. This year brought us a much-repeated pearl from Fox News guru, Bill O’Reilly. Why did his side lose the...
View ArticleFlorida Task Force Delivers Kill Shot to Earned Sick Time – For Now
When Florida Governor Rick Scott signed HB 655 last spring taking away the right of local units of government to enact earned sick tine, he claimed to do so in the name of “statewide uniformity,...
View ArticleShriver Report and Paid Leave: How Women are Pushing Back from the Brink
By Ellen Bravo Of all of the things working women need to get onto more secure economic footing, paid leave tops the list, according to a newly released report titled “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s...
View ArticlePresident Obama Calls for Paid Leave Policies
by Ellen Bravo In his most expansive statement yet in support of paid leave policies, President Barack Obama today declared that women deserve “workplace policies that protect her right to have a baby...
View Article#WEmatter: A Message to Lawmakers from Today’s Families
by Ellen Bravo What happens when a woman lands a good job usually done by men, but the workplace doesn’t have paid sick days? Take Anne Lott from Minneapolis. She had a factory job that paid a decent...
View ArticleWomen Leaders: The Policies Women Need Are What the Economy Needs
When Secretary Hillary Clinton and five Congressional women leaders gathered today at the Center for American Progress to talk about an economic security agenda for women, they invited two women to...
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