Fair Chance Denver
Fair Chance Denver is a campaign to pass an ordinance in Denver, CO to remove ‘the box’ on job and housing applications asking about felony backgrounds.
Colorado Needs to Pass the Parental Involvement for Academic Activities Bill for Families Like Mine
My name is Nicole Rodriguez, and I am a member 9to5 Colorado, a grassroots organization that strengthens women’s abilities to win justice for working women. I am a widow with a 12-year-old son, and my family supports HB-1002, Parental Involvement for Academic Activities, which reenacts the 2009 “Parental Involvement in K-12 Education Act.” This bill would allow parents to take a limited amount of job-protected time off from work to attend their children’s academic activities.
My Wage Gap as a Mom and Daughter
Our culture of female caregiving means that having no paid family leave hits women’s paychecks harder than men. When my younger daughter needed surgery at the same time that my elderly father needed immediate medical attention, times were tough.
Too many Coloradans remain in poverty.
Data released in September by the Census Bureau show poverty remains stubbornly and unacceptably high, and too many Americans are struggling to pay their rent and feed their families. Colorado 9 to 5 recently released a report focused on poverty in Colorado, in partnership with the Coalition on Human Needs.
Member Feature, Julie Bennett: We Need Affordable Transit
Ten years ago I was able to buy four monthly bus passes for the price of one bus pass today and in a few short months that price will be going up $20.
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