We love this group! The Progressive States Network has a Valuing Families campaign (nice twist...) that is excellent. Here's how the Network describes this campaign - couldn't have said it better myself:
We need to help families provide their core economic needs:
- We should make dramatic reforms in Health Care to restrain costs and to make quality care available and affordable for every person and family in our society.
- With housing the largest expense for most family budgets, we should redouble efforts to make Affordable Housing available for all families across the country.
- We should promote the rebuilding of workplace-based Pensions and provide families with additional Asset Building opportunities.
- All school should receive equitable funding to assure Quality Education for each child, and we should make sure that college education is affordable for all families.
With the rise of two-earner families, single parenthood, and "blended" families from divorce, we need to help families Balance Work and Family demands:
- We should provide help with Child Care costs and expand Pre-Kindergarten programs to improve early childhood development.
- Workplaces should offer adequate paid time off for Family Leave.
- In order to promote workplace equality for women, we should defend Reproductive Freedom and contraceptive equity.
If you like what they have to say (I sure do!), check 'em out, sign up for their "stateside dispatches," twice weekly e-mail newsletters with state policy news & analysis, or donate some money to keep them doing good work on our behalves! It's always heartening to find out that someone out there has got their minds on us mamas & us mamas on their minds.
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