The Washington Family Leave Coalition’s 2010 Candidate Questionnaire is now available to any organization wishing to discuss work-family public policy issues with municipal, state legislative and national candidates for elective office in Washington State. For discussions with candidates for national office, please see these fact sheets on the federal Healthy Families Act and FIRST ActContinue reading “Washington Family Leave Coalition releases 2010 candidate questionnaires”
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Family-Friendly Policies: Wrapping up 2009 and looking to 2010
H1N1 and the recession have focused public attention on the need for new policies that enable all workers to take time off to care for themselves and their families – without undermining family economic security. Here’s what’s going on in Washington state and around the country.
Moms to U.S. Senate: “We’re Trapped in the Last Century”
From Washington News Service: Washington, DC – Many working families are victims of a corporate culture and public policies that were forged in the middle of the last century, when Dads went to work and Moms cared for the kids at home, according to the National Association of Mothers’ Centers. “Bring us into the 21stContinue reading “Moms to U.S. Senate: “We’re Trapped in the Last Century””
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