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Diane Painter’s Story
By: Diane Painter In 2015 and 2016, I was part of a team of folks with the Coalition for Social Justice and Raise Up Massachusetts who collectively gathered more than 130K signatures for our Paid Family Leave ballot measure. I was just a volunteer back then, and spent hours in front of grocery stores and […]
Nija Phelps Story
By: Nija Phelps In 2014 my husband and I quit our jobs in Indiana and moved to Michigan to care for his mother, who was struggling with diabetes and needed 24-hour care for a few months. . If we’d had access to paid family and medical leave at the time, we might have been able […]
Abortion is Care
By: Carol Joyner, Executive Director Family Values @ Work Action –
June 24th marks the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to end Roe v. Wade […]
We Shoulder the Care Crisis
By: Melanie Campbell, President and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation –
Audre Lorde once said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree […]
Advancing Care Equity
By: Deborah Scott, Chief Executive Office, We Vote. We Win –
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant disparities […]
Care is the New American Dream
By: Yadira Sanchez, Executive Director, Poder Latinx –
Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for paid leave […]
The Campaign for Comprehensive PFML Continues
By: Dawn Huckelbridge, Executive Director, Paid Leave for All — What we have found, as we expected, is that paid leave is politically powerful […]
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Care is Love
By: Josephine Kalipeni, Executive Director, Family Values@Work — To survive and thrive in this country, most of us must work […]
Securing Benefits for ALL Families
By: Jennifer Morales, Director of Movement Learning and Culture Change — Our work has changed the conversation about what it means to be a family […]
It’s Time to Share the Work of Care
By: Destie Hohman Sprague, Executive Director, Maine Women’s Lobby —
Care work is the invisible underpinning of our economy […]
