Listen up, working moms and dads: Rep. Eric Cantor has a deal for you -- more time to spend with your family! What's not to like?

Except for one hitch: You get to spend more time with your family only after you've been forced to spend more time at work...

In just two weeks, the movement for paid sick days has seen three victories -- in Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, and most recently, New York City. Local coalitions in each place encountered fierce opposition, and yet the wave of wins continues.

Why now?

Because people need it, demanded it, and built...

Ask Adela Valdez how it feels to hear public health experts on TV explain ways to limit a flu outbreak. Get a flu shot, wash your hands, they advise -- and if you get the flu, stay home until 24 hours after your fever's gone.

"One day, I had a...

I'm a die-hard Green Bay Packers fan, but I have to hand it to Bears cornerback Charles Tillman, who was determined to be with his wife when she delivered their fourth child, even if it meant missing last Sunday's game against the Texans.

Tillman told the press...

When the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) rolled into Orlando with its "I Built My Business" bus tour, they ran into some unexpected company: a crowd of 70 local business owners, community leaders, and Orlando voters who rejected the group's claims to be a legitimate representative of small business....

This is what democracy does NOT look like:

Hundreds of community activists, faith leaders, business owners and others in Orange County, Fla., identified the need for workers to earn paid sick days as a critical way to keep jobs and boost the economy. They scrupulously followed all the rules. That...

New figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show how serious the lack of earned sick time is for workers in this country -- and how those with the least financial cushion are also the least likely to get any paid time off.

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

The right wing relies on an old method of deception: repeat something often enough and people will begin to accept it as fact.

And when the media acts as a conduit for delivering this message without verification, false truths spread at a rapid pace.

A new media study by two...

The National Federation of Independent Businesses loves to wrap itself in the flag of neighborhood Mom and Pop shops when it lobbies on Capitol Hill, but many small business owners maintain the NFIB's agenda doesn't address their priorities, and say the lobbying group even fights against policies that small businesses...

My favorite Mother's day gifts from my sons were their original stories, songs and poems. But what I needed when they were infants and toddlers was something children can't deliver: affordable time off when they were born and when they were sick.

So for all those candidates and elected...

I love the image of conservatives hiding behind the flag of motherhood to protect themselves against charges of gender insensitivity. It's like kids who move the couch to cover up a stain and hope no one will notice.

By all means, let's talk about the importance of motherhood.

We can...

This time last year, Desiree Rosado, a school bus driver in Groton, Connecticut, was dreading flu season. "Working without paid sick days, you're always worried about what will happen if you get sick," she said. "When my kids caught the swine flu, I missed a week of pay to stay...

It's time to expand the Occupy Wall Street movement to include K Street, home of the corporate lobbyists.

As the top one percent carry out their heist against working people, lobbyists provide the blueprints and drive the getaway car.

And when the 99 percent band together to fight for policies...

My friend recently asked whether I could talk to her daughter about how to deal with men leering at her.

The daughter is eleven.

In two years she'll celebrate her bat mitzvah, when the world will recognize her as a woman. Yet today, her mother and I are inducting her...

My older son did magic shows as a kid. He learned early on that the key to fooling the audience was a steady stream of patter and something to draw their attention so that they wouldn't notice the trick unfolding before their eyes.

I was reminded of his sleight-of-hand routine...

On Mother's Day, a group of national feminist and labor leaders, journalists, and organizers traveled to Phoenix to document the experiences of women in the wake of SB 1070.

The testimony we heard makes clear in vivid and haunting detail how SB 1070 constitutes a violation of every principle we...

Gwen Ifill was hobbled by more than a broken ankle at the vice presidential debate. The rules prevented her from asking any follow-up questions. I work with eleven statewide coalitions representing a million people, all fighting for policies that value families at work. Here are some questions we wish Gwen...

Should Sen. Barack Obama emerge as the Democratic candidate, women have compelling reasons to support his candidacy. Here are my top ten:

10. Nearly half of women voting in the Democratic primaries already support Sen. Obama's candidacy. CNN compiled exit polling data from all the states that held...

Oppression, alas, is not a zero sum game. The fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton has been subjected to outrageous displays of sexism throughout this campaign doesn't mean racism has been defeated. Both forms of injustice are alive and well in American institutions and sensibility.

That's why feminists must repudiate remarks...

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