Working Families

New York's Families Need Minimum Wage Increase

Gordon Campbell | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Financial Stability, Minimum Wage, Working Families, New York City, Ny Impact, United Way, New York Childcare, New York Minimum Wage, New York Food Stamps, United Way of NYC, New York News

The Occupy Wall Street movement has drawn the nation's attention to these economic issues, starting a necessary dialogue, but we need legislative action to help those toiling away for next to nothing.

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Finding Success Together

Loren Ridinger | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Success, The Balanced Life, Working Families, Love and Relationships, Love, Relationships Advice, Dating Advice, Long Relationship Advice, Love Relationship Advice, Relationships, Relationship Advice, Relationship Tips, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

Growing your business and personal life together is a challenge that will forever require attention and work, but will also deliver rewarding feelings and memories, while undoubtedly filling your heart with love.

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Service Groups Give Working Families A Lift With Auto Loans

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Matrix Human Services, Karen Bisdorf, Detroit Car Loans, Ways to Work, Detroit News, Car Loans Michigan, Michigan Auto Loans, Working Families, Spectrum Human Services, Auto Loans Michigan, Video, Detroit News

A national program that offers families loans to buy or fix up used cars will soon be available in Detroit. The Ways to Work program will provide $...

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Protecting Democracy in America Means Protecting Voting Rights and Civil Rights

Gerry Hudson | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Latinos, African-American Voters, Seiu, Immigration, Labor Unions, Civil Rights, Immigration Reform, Alabama Immigration, Alabama, Latino Voters, Voting Rights, Alabama Immigration Law, Working Families, Unions, Voting, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News

It is imperative that we not only understand the fight against restrictive voter ID laws , but that we also acknowledge that racist, anti-immigration laws, like Alabama's HB56, is an assault on the very values that civil rights marchers stood for nearly 50 years ago.

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Unemployment and Poverty in America

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Unemployment, Poverty, Jobs, Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Benefits, Medicare, Poor, Working Families, Unemployment Extension, Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, Politics News

Since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the historic Social Security Act of 1935, unemployment insurance has kept American families from falling into poverty. Seventy seven years later, this vital lifeline for unemployment insurance recipients continues to be weakened.

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The Golden Years: One Step Forward or Several Steps Back?

Gerry Hudson | Posted 04.18.2012

While the recent drop in unemployment numbers is great news, I wonder about how it will impact older African-American baby boomers. Our looming retirement security crisis, disproportionally affects African Americans, many of whom are retiring in poverty after a lifetime of work.

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Connecticut Workers Welcome Paid Sick Days

Ellen Bravo | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Victory, Working Women, Connecticut, Paid Sick Days, Labor, Economic Security, Working Families, Business News

As of January 1, hundreds of thousands of Connecticut workers will begin to earn paid sick time under a new statewide paid sick days law -- the first in the nation.

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Number of Working Poor Families Continues to Grow: Does Work Still Pay?

Brandon Roberts | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Working Poor, Child Poverty, Education, Poverty, Jobs, Working Families, Low-Income Families, Policy, Business News

It's time for policy makers to put American working families first. As more families drop from the middle class, the number of working families that are low-income increases.

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Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton Ticket Can Sweep the Presidency, House, and Senate

Brent Budowsky | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: House, Heidi Heitkamp, Harry Reid, Ricardo Sanchez, Senate, Congress, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, 2012 Election, Supreme Court, Hispanics, Working Families, Female Century, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

If Obama puts Clinton on the ticket, enthusiasm surges. Voters register. Organization mobilizes. Turnout soars. The base rallies. Main Street will be reassured.

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If You Take Our Money, Pay Us Fairly

Andrew Wilkes | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, Poverty, Isaiah, Business News, Living Wage, Working Families, New York City, Labor, NYC Living Wage, Economic Justice, Minimum Wage, Fair Wage, Religion News

It's time for developers to adjust to paying workers a living wage as a condition of accepting taxpayer money for large-scale commercial development in the city.

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Sixties Redux at Occupy Wall Street

Alan Singer | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Taxes, The Sixties, Wealthy, Nypd, MoveOn.Org, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Democracy, Working Families, Media, Liberty Park, New York News

I think the best thing that can come out of Occupy Wall Street is that a new generation, like the generation of the sixties, will learn to organize people.

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Progress on Child Care Policy

David Gray | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Families, Child Care, Working Parents, Child Care Policy, Work-Life Balance, Childcare Policy, Working Families, Child Care Protection Act, Politics News

Child care policy has long been an area of stalled progress. However, perhaps as resources are constrained and likely will be for a while, attention is turning to other realistic ways to improve child care quality. Surprising bipartisan action might result.

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Rep. Maxine Waters: The Tea Party Can Go Straight To Hell!

Wendy Carrillo | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Latinos, Congress, Labor, California, Unemployment, South Los Angeles, Underemployment, Working Families, Los Angeles, Tea Party, Labor Unions, Barack Obama, African Americans, Video, Los Angeles News

Waters took a stab at Congressional leadership who have caved to the unrealistic demands of the Tea Party -- demands that don't reflect the values, issues or concerns of a vast majority of Americans.

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March on Washington for Jobs, Hope and Real Change

Brent Budowsky | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Women, 2012 Elections, Workers, Environmentalists, Hope, Labor Day, March on Washington, Founding Fathers, Jobs, Hispanics, Change, Labor, Unemployment, Blacks, Consumers, Working Families, Politics News

It is time for the real heirs to Samuel Adams, and John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, to come Washington and answer the pretenders who do things in the name of the Founding Fathers that violate the ideals of the Founding Fathers.

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Four Years Ago Today, Hardworking Families Finally Got a Little Help

Sen. Jon Tester | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Minimum Wage, Working Families, Congressional Pay, Politics News

Exactly four years ago, hardworking folks across the country finally got a pay raise ten years in the making. One of the first laws I helped pass, just a couple of months after joining the Senate, was the Fair Minimum Wage Act. And it became law four years ago today.

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Is There Room for Empathy in Divorce?

Claire N. Barnes, MA | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Working Families, Families, Empathy, Divorce, Kids, Modern Family, Divorce News

Empathy is a popular topic these days...

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The Right Priorities for Our Working Families

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Working Families, Working Family, Working Mothers, HR 1, Women Veterans, Prenatal Care, Childhood Education, New York News

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth. It's time to focus on solutions, not just for the fortunate few, but for every American.

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The State of Charade

Marco Trbovich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade, Working Families, Sotu 2011, State of the Union, Barack Obama, Republicans, Manufacturing Jobs, Politics News

In concert with the president's address, the "Be Your Best Buddy" seating arrangement for the State of the Union address swept away any doubt that American politics has become a single-party system devoted to militarism and corporate interests.

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Stop the Lies

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Near the end of the now-classic film Chinatown, set in Los Angeles during the 1930s, working-stiff private detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) conf...

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President Obama Should Have Fought This One

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President, Small Business, Philosophy, Wealthy, President Obama, Jim Wallis, Goldman Sachs, Tax Rates, National Debate, National, Middle Class, Redistribution of Wealth, Compromise, Banking Industry, America, Republican, Payroll Tax, Letter to the President, Wealth, Refundable Tax Credits, Bailout, Common Good, Values, Socialized, Economic Inequality, History, Equality, Moral Compass, Economics, Trade, American History, Politics, Families, Religious Leaders, Rediscovering Values, Sojomail, Barack Obama, Wealthiest Americans, Self Interest, Wall Street, Sojourner, Blog, Ceo, Bottom to the Top, Middle Class Tax, Working Families, Socialism, Republicans, Inequality, Politics News

Obama has again bent to the economic philosophy that rewards the casino gamblers on Wall Street and leaves the majority of the country standing outside the casino with a tin cup -- hoping that the gamblers are at least big tippers.

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The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Poorer

William Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory, Congress, President Barack Obama, Unemployment Benefits, Poor, Working Families, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Working Class, Obama Tax Cut Compromise, Obama Tax Cut, Politics News

Americans are uncomfortable calling attention to pay discrepancies and exploitation because it smacks of class warfare. Thus they put up and shut up.

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Veterans Advocates Reject Debt Commission's You're On Your Own Economics

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011

At a time when we strive to honor generations of service, the Debt Commissions comes out with draconian cuts that will have drastic consequences for veterans and military families. They must be stopped.

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What's at Stake Tuesday

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, 2010 Elections, Retirement, Privatization, Jobs, Paul Krugman, Medicare, Working Families, Afscme, Politics News

The conventional wisdom in Washington right now is that the Republicans are about to take back the House, and possibly the Senate. That would be awfu...

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Ten Tips to Create a Flexible, Virtual Work Environment

Deborah Frett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Top Ten List, Jersey Shore, Return on Investment, Workplace, Working Mothers, Virtual Office, Rowe, Working Women, Work-Life Balance, Successful Workplace, Working Families, Results Only Work Environment, Best Buy, National Work and Family Month, Business News

The workplace flexibility movement has two things going for it: one, it's not going away, and two, just like the word itself, it can adapt and change to fit any organizational culture.

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The GOP's Bizarre and Cynical "Pledge to America"

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Working Families, Social Security, 2010 Elections, Afscme, Pledge to America, Minimum Wage, Wall Street, Republicans Pledge to America, Dick Morris, Middle Class, Elections 2010, Politics News

One can only marvel at the extreme cynicism evident in the Republican Party's bizarre 21-page "Pledge to America." The document is only the tip of the...

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