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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
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,
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 [...]
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 [...]
By: Deborah Scott, Chief Executive Office, We Vote. We Win - The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant disparities [...]
By: Yadira Sanchez, Executive Director, Poder Latinx - Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for paid leave [...]
