U.S. Educational Outcomes Improved Despite Our Economic Woes
Headlines about the “crisis in education” might lead you to believe otherwise but most educational outcomes in the United States have improved over the last decade. High school graduation rates and...
View Article16 Million Reasons for the Candidates to Care about Poverty
By the time President Obama and Governor Romney throw out the first punches in the October 3 debate, many of the nation’s 16 million poor children will be fast asleep. Some of them will have gone to...
View ArticleWill Marissa Mayer’s Baby Give Birth to a Leader?
How fitting that Marissa Mayer birthed her baby on the eve of National Work and Family month. Yet she disappoints other moms, bloggers and work-family advocates by stating she’ll work throughout her...
View ArticleHow a World Map Can Feed the Spirit and the Body
When I excitedly opened the cardboard tube containing the new Children Inspire Design map delivered to my door, my first reaction was perplexity. The world map had no countries identified on it, but...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Domestic Work to be Recognized as Real Work.
A few weeks ago, actor and mom Amy Poehler made a video supporting the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Amy balances being a mom with a career as an actor, writer, and producer. In the...
View ArticleIt’s time for moms to ask the questions!
Are you headed to a town hall event, election forum, or did you just run into a candidate at the grocery store? Take along our handy list of sample questions that you can use to ask the candidates...
View ArticleThe federal budget: A high-stakes love story
In 2011, I taught two summer courses, directed a federal budget research organization and paid taxes. Taxes are the dues I pay for living in a democracy. Like you, I contribute at the local, state, and...
View ArticleMeet the Parents
By Wendy Lazarus and Laurie Lipper Co-Presidents of The Children’s Partnership The Presidential Debates missed focusing on the job held by 155 million Americans: parenting. Here are five questions...
View ArticleChanges We Need in the Workplace… what you can do!
(this post was originally published in my blog, LadydeeLG, on July 18, 2012.) Yesterday I commented on Ms. Mayer’s thoughts and focused on what her non-existent maternity leave could say to employers...
View ArticleYour Guide to Avoiding Election Day Snafus
IT’S HERE! Election Day is today (November 6th!) and it’s time to get out there and vote! It can be enough of a challenge just getting to the polls today, but it’s so important. Make sure that you have...
View ArticleEldercare, Childcare, and Everything In Between: WeGiveACare.org’s Thank You...
Late night calls are the worst. Mine came all the way from Shanghai, China, where my parents live part of the year. My dad’s voice was faint, halting. He told me quickly that my mom had fallen and...
View ArticleThere’s Still Time to Keep Kids From Falling off the Cliff
With New Year’s fast approaching, the “fiscal cliff” puts billions of dollars of critical investments for children at risk. If policy makers do nothing, millions of children could be pushed into...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Education IS important (for ALL!)
As a parent of a 21 month old, I have found myself thinking about childcare and school options a lot lately. Earlier this week, as I watched the inauguration of Barack Obama with my son, I thought...
View ArticleFollowing the Evidence: Early Education For All Kids
“Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than seven dollars later...
View ArticleWho’s Ready for Affordable, High Quality Child Care?
We Are! A few weeks ago, all U.S. children under the age of five grew to amazing heights. Ok, so babies didn’t physically grow to ten feet tall (thank goodness, think of the diapers!), but all young...
View ArticleSequestration Affects Kids and Moms
By now you’ve heard that federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you’ve heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. Sequestration means across-the-board spending cuts,...
View ArticleWorking Women Blues
This story originally appeared in the Carolyn Edgar blog. There’s been a lot of talk in the media lately about women in the workplace. From Anne-Marie Slaughter’s complaining about not “having it all,”...
View ArticleAssessing Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In”
Sheryl Sandberg’s well-researched new book, Lean In, focuses on helping women who aspire to careers identify and overcome negative societal messages they have internalized over the years – old scripts...
View ArticleNew Moms Can Lean In Too: Take Your Infant to Work
The volcanic national debate about women, work, and family erupts weekly these days, with Sheryl Sandberg’s much-anticipated book, Lean In, published yesterday, the news last week that Best Buy ended...
View ArticleCaregiving in the Face of Hostility
Photo: I am holding my son, then a baby, at my parents’ home in New Hampshire in 2004. At the time, my parents, grandparents and youngest sibling lived in the same three-bedroom townhouse. Growing up,...
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