THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 23, 2012
State Child Care Cuts Force Hard Choice on Parents
Amy Taxin | Associated Press
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Sarah Comito rolls out of bed before dawn most days and slips quietly out of her house. Before her rambunctious toddler wakes up, she heads off to work as a waitress in an upscale weight-loss resort in Malibu. The hour-long commute is exhausting, but the 33-year-old [...]
Economic Recovery Slow for US Nonprofits
Donna Gordon Blankenship | Associated Press
December 30, 2011
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SEATTLE (AP) — As the first signs of an economic recovery make the news, many of the nation’s nonprofit organizations are digging in for another three to four years of financial distress, according to researchers who keep an eye on the charitable world. Some larger nonprofits are seeing donations [...]
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SEATTLE – If the nation’s 14 million unemployed workers return to jobs, they will find some sobering changes in the workplace: They’ll earn less, pay more for health insurance and receive fewer benefits, some as basic as paid sick leave. Decades of progress in the fight for better employee [...]
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Inside the American Dream: A Poster Child For Promise Rejects it as Myth
Claudia Rowe | Equal Voice News
January 12, 2011
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From the moment we realize that life goes hand-in-hand with a lifestyle, vague notions of the American Dream hover in the background. Embraced or rejected, they are almost impossible to escape. Yet the definition of that dream varies. Newspaper columnists opine about the holy grail of middle-class values. Pop [...]
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Each year, America spends about $68 billion to incarcerate and supervise more than 7 million people. Yet criminologists say our burgeoning penal system – which has tripled in size over the past 25 years – does little to improve public safety. What it has been most successful at is [...]
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Promise Broken? Low Income Workers Find Road to Green Jobs Tough Going
Claudia Rowe | Equal Voice News
February 2, 2010
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By now, the drumbeat is impossible to ignore: Job, jobs, jobs. With one in 10 adults unemployed, President Obama had little choice but to highlight jobs during his Jan. 27 State of the Union address. He mentioned the term nearly 30 times during the hour-long speech. But among people [...]
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