7:54pm October 8, 2013

“When researchers find that nearly one in four workers has been fired or threatened with firing for taking time to care for themselves or a sick family member, newspapers should be covering this as an urgent economic problem facing our country. And when 95 percent of school nurses who participated in an online poll by the National Association of School Nurses in 2009 say a parent has told them they couldn’t pick up a sick child for fear of losing a job, there should be an outcry from political commentators on the right, left and center about the way our economy fails to uphold American family values.”

‘Having it All!’ The Wrong Question for Most Women (via subconciousevolution)

You’d be amazed how many KIDS will say, “I can’t go home sick because then my [parent] will have to miss work/lose their job.”

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