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Parents to Lawmakers: Protect Child Care, Social Services
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Amber Zenzak, an office manager at a small carpet-cleaning company, took a moment recently to consider what life would be like each week without state support for child care for her children ages 3, 4, and 9. “My day care costs would be $100 more than what I gross a week. [...]
Caroline Topeé grew up in a financially stable family and took her financial security for granted. Then came the day when she realized that, to protect her daughter, she needed to leave her abusive marriage. Caroline took on several jobs just to stay afloat, which had repercussions for her daughter and their relationship. Parent Voices, [...]
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Elsa Gonzalez had never thought of herself as a community organizer. But when Hurricane Dolly destroyed her family’s home in South Texas, she knew she had to do something to stand up for her family and her community. She joined a local grassroots organization, part of a network of 10 organizations that collaborate across issues [...]
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When Wahid Rashad, 65, sees young people in Chicago chugging bottles of sugary drinks and chomping on fluorescent-orange snacks, he thinks: “That’s garbage. It doesn’t enhance the brain and energy level.” Rashad sells apples, mangoes, papayas and peppers from a produce cart in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. Among the comments he hears from customers since [...]
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Walmart might have viewed their plans to open in an existing building in Los Angeles Chinatown as a bullet-proof strategy. The retail giant would open its new store in the Grand Plaza, an existing building, that unlike new construction, would allow the retailer to proceed without a public hearing. As the company worked on its [...]
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For Merleane S., a 19-year-old, single mom, her work shift on March 15 included taking and filling orders at a fast food restaurant in Palm Coast, Fla. She was earning the state's minimum wage of $7.79 per hour. Similar to other U.S. workers, she was trying to make sure her family was secure.[...]
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SAN JOSE CALDERAS, Guatemala — Jeidy knows she’s different. The 5-year-old with dark eyes and an impish smile toys with earthworms in her front yard, devoting her day to play. In the kitchen, her 11-year-old sister, Jocelyn, fixes lunch. Another sister, Jennifer, sweeps leaves, her 10-year-old hands swaying back-and-forth. On this soggy weekday morning last [...]
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. – When Modesto Hernandez, 35, walks these days, he grips the curved handle of a brown metal cane to steady himself. In 2008, Hernandez was pruning rows of raspberry canes in Whatcom County along the northern border. Red raspberries, as a commodity, are valued at $44 million in Washington state. The fields that day were [...]
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Last summer, just hours after the Oakland City Council approved an agreement to turn the former Army Base into a warehouse and shipping hub, promising thousands of new jobs, the telephone at the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy office began ringing. “We were inundated with calls. We were hearing from people who needed [...]
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Child Care Advocates Question Finger Scans for Poor Parents Receiving Subsidies
February 19, 2013
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Janice Slaughter often takes her 19-month-old granddaughter to the Tiny Tots child care center in Jackson, Miss., or picks her up in the afternoon so that her daughter, the baby’s mother, can attend school. Slaughter brought her own children to the same center when they were babies and has known the owner for years. But, [...]
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