Workers Need Affordable Child Care
Many families with young children must choose among bad options: spending a significant portion of their income on child care or leaving the workforce altogether.
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Child care is a crisis screaming out for investment. Can Manchin and Sinema hear that?
Affordable, available child care was a major problem for many U.S. families even before the coronavirus pandemic—and now it’s a crisis. President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have plans to fix that if Senate Republicans will get out of the way, or Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will get on board with a budget reconciliation …
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How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy
The U.S. government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that childcare workers in the nation have a median salary of just over $24,000 a year—below the poverty line for a family of four. The segment of our nation’s workforce that attends to the basic needs of our children is shockingly underpaid, and now during the coronavirus pandemic, left …
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How to Remain Professional Whilst Caring for Children at Home?
As a parent of the three children, all of which are under 11, the dramatic shift to remote working from home for students and professionals alike has been a sudden and challenging shake up to the daily routine. The million-dollar question for all parents who now find themselves acting as a full time parent and …
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Childcare costs are sucking U.S. parents dry and still leaving early childhood teachers in poverty
Parents in the U.S. pay a staggering amount for care for their young children—and here, as in so many other areas, the support they get from their government falls short of what peer nations provide. A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows just how big the problem is, and what it’s costing the economy. …
I Work with Mark Janus. Here’s How He Benefits from a Strong Union.
Like everyone else in the labor movement, I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public sector unions by letting workers receive the benefits of representation without contributing toward the cost. But I’ve got a unique vantage point: I work in the same building as the plaintiff, Mark …
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Childcare Workers Need a Living Wage
When a group of young fast food workers decided to lift their voices on the job and join together in the demand for better wages, no one believed anything tangible would come from it. Two months ago, those same workers won $15/hr. Their action and bravery sparked a global movement known as the Fight for …
Can Au Pairs Legally Be Paid Less Than $5 An Hour?
Beaudette Deetlefs, who goes by Bella, thought being an au pair in the United States would be a great opportunity. The agency she applied to told her she’d travel with her host family on vacation, earn enough to put money into savings, and be treated like a member of the family. But the when she …
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