“Just 30 days ago, President Trump announced the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Today, Judge Barrett has been confirmed through a sham process mere days before a Presidential election, after millions of people have already...
How NYC’s Paid Leave Expansion Helps Survivors Of Abuse – Refinery29
“No one should be forced to choose between earning a living, or safety for oneself and children,” wrote [New York City] First Lady Chirlane McCray, a co-chair of the Commission on Gender Equality, in an emailed statement to Refinery29.
We’ve seen how earned sick days improve lives. It makes workplaces better – New Jersey Star-Ledger
A survey by the National Partnership for Women and Families found that nearly one quarter of U.S. adults have been fired or threatened with job loss for taking time off to recover from an illness or caring for a dependent.
Our Lack of Paid Leave Is a Public Health Crisis – Slate
After delivery, parents are torn between providing the best care for their child versus earning money to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. Mothers push through postpartum pain and ignore doctors’ recommendations by returning to work too early.
Dallas Groups Push for Paid Sick Leave – NBC DFW
Several organizations and two council members are pushing for paid sick leave to be mandatory for workers in Dallas.
Sheryl Sandberg Talks Paid Family Leave, Community Organizing, and Cambridge Analytica – Fortune
The numbers are astounding: 37 million people get no sick days. And that applies to 6 in 10 lower-income workers. Only 14% of people have access to paid family leave at work. A third of working mothers don’t have access to any paid leave.
Here’s How Much the Royal Baby’s Birth Cost, Compared to the Average American’s – MONEY
“It’s mostly healthy moms and healthy babies, so these costs are pretty shocking from that point of view,” Carol Sakala, director of Childbirth Connection Programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families, told MONEY.
The Republican plan for family leave would destroy your Social Security benefits – Los Angeles Times
[D]elaying Social Security translates into a real financial loss; the authors [of the Urban Institute analysis] reckon that parents who took a single 12-week leave would lose about 3% of their future retirement benefits, and those who took four leaves would lose 10%.
Meet the Activists Leading the Fight for Paid Family Leave – Fortune
Few in the audience had blue-collar jobs like [Carolyn] Davis’s; she spends her workdays tracking inventory and stocking shelves. Still, as a shareholder, Davis, who goes by Cat, had a right to speak. She’s also a mother of two, and she had come to deliver a petition—signed by more than 100,000 associates—to urge Walmart to give workers like her the same family-leave benefits that executives get.
The food industry’s food stamps problem – The New Food Economy
Workers aren’t scheduled for as many hours as they’d like, sick-day policies are unforgiving, and shifts are inconsistent, meaning paychecks vary considerably from week to week. All these factors lead to high turnover rates in jobs that are typically part-time and low-paying to begin with.
Child care doesn’t need to break the bank – The Hill
[W]e need to support parents. Parents need paid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act so that they can care for their children; currently the law provides unpaid leave only for employees of companies with 50 or more employees. Additionally, some families need subsidies for child care so that they can thrive in those first years that are often the hardest and most expensive.