Friday, March 2, 2007

The Care Crisis-

Though no widely accepted manifesto exists, many advocacy organizations--such as the Institute for Women's Policy Research, the Children's Defense Fund, the National Partnership for Women and Families, Take Care Net and MomsRising--have argued that universal healthcare, paid parental leave, high-quality subsidized on-the-job and community childcare, a living wage, job training and education, flexible work hours and greater opportunities for part-time work, investment in affordable housing and mass transit, and the reinstatement of a progressive tax structure would go a long way toward supporting working mothers and their families. (In these pages in 2003, Deborah Stone documented campaigns on many of these issues by organizations in California, Massachusetts and Washington.) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070312/rosen

This reminds me of that earlier article about Chimp mama's and babies . . and how they spear-headed the movement towards creating tools for hunting and evolution.
We are the leaders! We blaze trails because we just are . . . creators! We are the common good! Let's be good! (:

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