Democrats want to expand families’ ability to take care of a child or sick relative. Republicans want to kill the state’s law. A double whammy hit Democrats Monday on the Family Medical Leave Act and on workers compensation. At least Democrats say so. At the beginning of a Monday session, the Republican chairwoman of the SenateContinue reading “Family leave provokes fight in state Senate”
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Republican lawmakers ignoring even their own base on paid family leave
Seventy-three percent of Republicans said they think it is important that the new Congress and the president consider laws that help secure working families, such as paid family leave and paid sick days.
Calling on the candidates to debate real family issues
By Janice D’Arcy || USA Today Recently a group of about two dozen care-giving advocates, many of them children’s advocates too, gathered in a conference overlooking K Street to brainstorm about how to make care policies more prominent in the presidential campaign. There was a universal agreement from the group that the attention to family-friendlyContinue reading “Calling on the candidates to debate real family issues”
Washington Work and Family Coalition 