by Emily DiVito | Jul 30, 2014 | Economy, Gender Justice
As women and their families continue to struggle with the demanding, and sometimes impossible, balance of work and family life, the Make it Work Campaign, launched earlier this summer, hopes to act as an outlet for their frustrations and an ally in their fight. Vivien...
by Emily DiVito | Jul 23, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
When American women have no control over their own work schedules, they have no control over their own lives. Mary Coleman of Wisconsin knows this first-hand. She was working the night shift at a Milwaukee Popeye’s restaurant, a time slot notoriously unpopular for its...
by Emily DiVito | Jul 16, 2014 | Economy
Working in Congress might be hard – but being poor is so much harder. That’s the lesson several members of Congress and congressional staff members were able to learn in a poverty simulation held on Capitol Hill Tuesday, put together by Catholic Charities USA with the...
by Emily DiVito | Jul 1, 2014 | Health
Here is the clearest, and scariest, implication of the Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Inc.: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – “Obamacare” – is fatally flawed. It is clear we now need a public, single-payer health care system –...
by Emily DiVito | Jun 24, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
“The American high school classes graduating this year will be the last ones ever that are majority white,” Ronald Brownstein, Editorial Director of Atlantic Media, reminded us in his opening remarks today at the National Journal’s panel on “The Next America: Making...