February 6, 2019 in #FightingForFamilies, Family Economic Security, Paid Family and Medical Leave
By Jessie Ulibarri, Executive Director of the State Innovation Exchange While many pundits and politicos have been focused on Washington this week, we at the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) are focused on the progressive legislators who are fast at work in state capitols advancing legislation to improve the lives of working families. That is why […]
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February 5, 2019 in Fighting for Families, Paid Family and Medical Leave
By Ellen Bravo and Vicki Shabo Ellen Bravo is a co-founder and director of Family Values @ Work, a network of broad coalitions working for—and winning—policies such as paid sick days and family leave insurance. Vicki Shabo is vice president for workplace policies and strategies at the National Partnership for Women & Families. When the Family […]
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December 19, 2018 in #FightingForFamilies, Paid Family and Medical Leave, Working Families
The annual SiX #FightingForFamiliesWeek of Action is a national, coordinated effort to highlight the work of progressive state legislators to create an economy that works for all, not just the wealthy few. The next Week of Action will be February 4-8, 2019. WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN Join a national movement to highlight the work of […]
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August 30, 2018 in Economy, Paid Family and Medical Leave, Paid Sick Days, Workers' Rights, Working Families
By: Michelle Sternthal, Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Oxfam America Popular rhetoric in the U.S. pits workers against businesses. How often does one hear, “Worker protections saddle businesses and stall the economy! Increasing the minimum wage will scare away businesses! Regulations kill jobs!” In so many policy conversations, we are told that labor laws must be […]
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February 5, 2018 in #FightingForFamilies, FMLA, National Partnership for Women and Families, NPWF, Paid Family and Medical Leave, Vicki Shabo, Week of Action
As part of SiX’s 2018 #FightingForFamilies Week of Action, Vicki Shabo, the vice president for workplace policies and strategies at the National Partnership for Women & Families, wrote a guest blog commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and explaining the importance of fighting for a real national paid family and medical leave plan that doesn’t leave anyone behind. […]
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July 1, 2016 in 2016 Session, Climate Change, Conservative, Criminal Justice Reform, Education, Election Reform, Equal Pay, Health, Immigration, LGBTQ, Minimum Wage, Paid Family and Medical Leave, Paid Sick Days, Politics, Preemption, Progressive, Reports, Reproductive Rights, Retirement Security, Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights, State Innovation Exchange, State Legislation, Voting Rights, Wage Theft, Working Families
As we look back at 2016 legislative activity in statehouses across the country, and as partisan gridlock in Washington keeps Congress at a standstill, it’s clear the most important policy fights have shifted to the states. This year, progressives and conservatives continued to battle at the state level over laws that will impact our lives […]
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