Sep 30 2021
We need EVERYONE to call their Congressperson and urge them to pass the budget reconciliation package with a FULL investment in home and community-based services.
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$190 billion for home care has been folded into reconciliation—toward measures aimed at improving pay and job security for domestic workers.
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The Essential Campaign, in partnership with NDWA, released the short film, No Shortcuts to Change, starring Sherri Shepherd (Call Your Mother), the film is executive produced by Angela Bassett.
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Democrats in Congress are feverishly putting together what could be the most ambitious piece of domestic legislation in several decades.
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Labor, aging, and disability advocates are fighting to get lawmakers to put at least $250 billion toward a plan to expand home and community-based care for the elderly and disabled and improve conditions for the poorly paid workers that tend to them.
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Groups that advocate for caregivers cite new polling data from a dozen states, including Michigan, showing public support for parts of the Biden administration’s economic agenda.
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As the world looks towards recovery, essential workers and activists are demanding a different type of economy.
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Black women share the challenges—and fight for protections amid a pandemic— that have made their work and lives even more precarious.
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Domestic care workers have been overlooked in the economy and as political actors for too long.
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During theSkimm’s Back to "Normal" Power Panel, our co-founders and co-CEOs Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg talked about what a return to “normal” in the workplace looks like amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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