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February 5 marks the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the family-friendly law that allows workers to take job-protected leave to care for a newborn or newly adopted child...
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As part of its year-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the National Partnership for Woman and Families, which was instrumental in getting the law...
View ArticleAdvocates Gear Up to Support Paid Family Leave Bill
The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act), a bill that would make paid family and medical leave available to nearly all America’s workers, is expected to be introduced very soon in...
View ArticleHow the FAMILY Act Will Help Direct Care Workers, Their Clients, and Our Economy
Earlier this month, DCA was invited to join a MomsRising “blog carnival” in support of a new bill that would make paid family and medical leave available to nearly all workers in the U.S. This piece,...
View ArticleThe State of Direct Care Workers
“Everyone seems to agree, as the President emphasized several times in his State of the Union address, that people who work full-time should not live in poverty,” writes Direct Care Alliance Executive...
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Olympia Dukakis on why we need to take better care of home care aides, who take such good care of the rest of us. This ad from the Healthcare for All Virginians Coalition—including DCA—features quotes...
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Watch HBO’s Paycheck to Paycheck, the story of CNA and single mother Katrina Gilbert, free of charge on the Shriver Report website. A brief on the problems caused by unstable work schedules–like those...
View ArticleTalking About #fairpay
Last week Direct Care Alliance, 9to5 and the National Partnership for Women & Families co-hosted a tweet chat about why women still earn much less than men and what we can do to change that. Equal...
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An Older Americans Month toolkit from Eldercare Workforce Alliance helps journalists and other stakeholders find publications, programs, and personal stories that focus on the health and safety of...
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The Massachusetts Senate is deciding whether to give home care workers a much-needed raise. Watch this excellent program from NJTV’s Due Process about why home care workers and other low-wage workers...
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