Do you have the summer camp blues?
By Jenya Cassidy, Labor Project for Working Families Last night, after taking a closer look at our family’s new summer camp schedule, I called my ex to request a last minute change of plans: Could he...
View ArticleStand With Working Women
By Courtni Sunjoo Pugh, SEIU local 99 Several of the state’s largest newspapers have spoken, and their verdict is in: the hard-working women who care for California’s kids are no more than...
View ArticleSave Our Schools: Fighting School Closures in Oakland
By Rob Rooke, Member of Carpenters, Local 713 She pointed out of the car window every time we drove past it. Our five year-old talked Kindergarten all summer. For three years she walked to Maxwell Park...
View ArticleWomen and Children Are the Casualties of the State Budget Crisis
By Beth McGovern Low-income women and their families have been hit the hardest by recent budget cuts in California. A report released by the Women’s Foundation of California and the California Budget...
View ArticleNew Parents Need to Know about Paid Family Leave
By Janet Zamudio, BANANAS, Inc. I am a mother of three children ages 14, 11, and 7. My youngest child Maya just turned 7. And it was about at this time, seven years ago, that I used California’s Paid...
View ArticleStaffing a universal preschool program will be no small task
Originally posted on April 9th, 2013 on EdSource Marcy Whitebook. Photo by Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today President Obama’s rhetorical plea for universal preschool has yet to be translated into an...
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