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 [...]
Paid-Leave Benefits Lagging for Working Moms in US
Hope Yen | Associated Press
November 10, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After decades of worker gains in paid-leave benefits, employers are becoming more selective about granting maternity leave in an economic downturn. A Census Bureau analysis released Thursday shows that the share of women given time off for pregnancy, birth and child care has leveled off, with about [...]
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Survey Examines Recession Impact on Nation’s Children
By Cristina Silva | Associated Press
August 23, 2011
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Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Karla Washington worries how she will afford new school uniforms for her five-year-old daughter. Washington, an undergraduate student, earns less than $11,000 a year from a part-time university job. The salary must cover food, rent, health care, child care and the occasional splurge on a [...]
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e: Reporting for this story began in March, shortly before Arizona’s immigration bill, SB 1070, was signed into law. In the four months since, a national debate has raged over immigration reform, spreading from Arizona to states across the country, and coloring the political landscape. As November’s mid-term [...]
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In the dusty Arizona desert, a young man wearing only one shoe limps toward a group of college students. Thirsty and bleeding, he begs for help. He has trudged for 12 miles, all the way from the Mexican border, and says he has never made this trip before, doesn’t [...]
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On a crisp morning in October, 300 low-income families and their allies – all members of a movement known as the Equal Voice Coalition – gathered at a hotel in San Francisco with an ambitious goal: Together, they would spend the next nine hours devising strategies to push the [...]
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