Media Coverage: Give Poverty the Attention it Deserves in the Debate
October 5, 2012
It’s time we give poverty, particularly child poverty, the attention it deserves. A good place to start would be the first presidential debate in Denver on October 3.
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Media Coverage: Please, President Obama and Gov. Romney, no lip service on family values
October 2, 2012
Jessica Smith started a petition to get President Obama and Governor Romney talking about paid sick days and family leave insurance. Jessica knows a little something about the need for these policies. She suffered a stroke when she was 3 years old.
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Mother and Son Making a Difference with Just One Pen
September 24, 2012
9to5 held its third annual National Day of Action on August 26, Women’s Equality Day. In Atlanta, chapter volunteer Nicole Corley blogs about her experiences helping register voters at the Five Points MARTA Station.
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Media Release: Top 10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class
September 13, 2012
A day after the Census Bureau reported that family income is the lowest in 16 years, a new report provides a roadmap to increase wages and benefits for strapped working and middle-class families.
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Media Release: Working Women Unite to Get Economy Working Again
August 26, 2012
On August 26, 2012, in celebration of Women’s Equality Day, 9to5 members and activists in 18 cities across the country will register voters and encourage them to call on their candidates to support earned sick days.
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Media Coverage: Speak Out for Equal Pay
June 5, 2012
Pay equity stimulates the economy and reduces poverty.
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Media Release: Pay Gap to be Protested Across the Country
April 12, 2012
9to5 is organizing people across the country to protest the pay gap that is shortchanging women an average of $10,000 annually; the equivalent of 88 weeks of groceries or 13 months of rent.
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Media Coverage:Short-Lived Pay Equity Law Appears Headed for Repeal
April 1, 2012
With women nationally still earning 78 cents on the dollar compared to men, supporters of the state’s 2-year-old pay equity law say now is not the time to quit working for pay equality.
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Media Release: The Ryan Federal Budget is a Slash and Burn Attack on Working Families
March 29, 2012
With millions of families struggling with unemployment, reduced incomes, foreclosures and bankruptcies, the Ryan budget will have a crippling affect on their ability to rebound from the economic crisis.
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Media Release: Restaurant Industry Supersizes Worker Injustice
February 15, 2012
Report finds female servers earning poverty-level wages and enduring discriminatory employer practices.
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