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June 2007

Public Policy:

Getting real about families:
Agenda for Shared Prosperity presents forum on families, work
and public policy

U.S. Congress: Getting up to speed on work-life policy
Legislation introduced in 110th Congress would help close the U.S. policy gap

Reports & Resources:

Study finds low wages, high turnover prevalent in caregiving workforce

New project spotlights state variations in support for low-income
children and families

Women & the workplace:

Selected news and commentary on women & work

Families:

MomsRising launches FamiliesRising.org

Mothers in the military, fathering from prison, hands on dads and other news and commentary on parenting and families

Women & activism:

Taking on the Big Boys, why feminists fight, and more news and commentary about women making change

Reproductive health & rights:

Throwing money at abstinence-only ed, states see increase in infant mortality, civil unions, more

Social issues:

Demos offers new web resource on wealth-and-income inequality,
plus related articles

More reporting and commentary on social issues

past editions of mmo noteworthy ...
public policy:

Getting real about families:
Agenda for Shared Prosperity presents forum on families, work and public policy

On May 24, The Agenda for Shared Prosperity initiative (a project of the Economic Policy Institute) and the editors of The American Prospect held a forum on working families in Washington, DC. In her keynote speech, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) remarked that while there is talk in Congress about "getting down to work" on work-life reconciliation policy, "we have a long way to go and many, many challenges before us… Frankly, it is a battle every day to turn the tide in favor, and on behalf, of families."

The forum also included presentations of issue papers by Heidi Hartmann, Arian Hegewisch and Vicki Lovell of the Institute for Women's Policy Research and CUNY sociologist Janet Gornick on international comparisons of work-time policies and bringing the United States up to speed with other advanced nations. In their paper "An Economy That Puts Families First: Expanding the social contract to include family care," Hartmann and co-authors note:

Much policy making in the United States today reflects a view of families as private entities, each one responsible for securing its own well-being -- as if our society at large has no interest in seeing that children are born and well raised, that the sick, disabled, and elderly are tended with care, and that strong, healthy personal relationships within and between generations are nourished. Of course, it is not true that these matters are not important to society -- they are in fact the core of society, the reason for society. …No facet of life is more appropriate for public support than family life. All societies must balance public interest in well-functioning families that reproduce our species with the need for personal privacy in intimate space. Most advanced nations have recognized this by dedicating more of their public resources to help families with the tasks of child and elder care than we do in the United States.

In addition to helping professional- and middle-class workers mesh family care needs with workplace demands, the authors remark that "the family policies discussed in this paper should also be recognized as an essential element of progressive anti-poverty policy." For example, they note that "the many parents who work in the low-wage labor market cannot, even with the [Earned Income Tax Credit], lift their families above poverty if they must pay for child care."

Gornick remarks that policies aimed at reducing work time have typical been ignored in the United States as a way to help employees integrate paid work and family responsibilities -- although based on examples outside the US, family-friendly work-time policies seem to be effective. "Average work hours in almost every European nation have fallen dramatically since 1979," Gornick writes. "Even in Japan, known throughout the world for its long work hours, average work hours declined by over 300 hours a year. By contrast, the United States has not implemented or even seriously debated policies designed to reduce work time. Instead, most work-family advocates have focused on the need for child care, paid family leave, and programs that permit flexibility in determining which, rather than how many hours workers will spend on the job." She proposes three work-time policy goals for the United States: reducing the full-time work week to less than 40 hours; guaranteeing workers an adequate number of paid days, annually, away from the workplace; and raising the quality and availability of part-time work. She recommends granting all workers four full weeks of paid time off annually, reducing the standard working to between 35 and 39 hours with reasonable caps on compulsory overtime, and pay-and-benefit parity for part time workers.

A full transcript and video of the forum are available from the Agenda for Shared Prosperity Web site; complete text of the issue briefs is provided in both web text and .pdf formats.

Economic Policy Institute
www.epi.org

Agenda for Shared Prosperity
www.sharedprosperity.org

Getting Real About Families
Introduction and links
Audio, video and written transcripts of event

An Economy That Puts Families First:
Expanding the social contract to include family care

Heidi Hartmann, Arian Hegewisch and Vicki Lovell
Economy Policy Institute/Agenda for Shared Prosperity, 24.may.07
Briefing Paper, 17 pages in .pdf;
html version

The Work-Family Balance:
An Analysis of European, Japanese, and U.S. Work-Time Policies

Janet Gornick, Alexa Herndon and Ross Eisenbrey
Economy Policy Institute/Agenda for Shared Prosperity, 24.may.07
Briefing Paper, 10 pages in .pdf
html version

Related articles:

What Vacation Days?
David Moberg, In These Times, 18.jun.07
Despite being one of the richest nations, America denies its workers mandated paid vacations and sick days.

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U.S. Congress:
Getting up to speed on work-life policy

Several important pieces of work-life legislation have been reintroduced to the 110th Congress in the past six months, including a bill guaranteeing a minimum number of paid sick day for full- and part-time workers and legislation to establish a national insurance program providing up to eight weeks of paid family and medical leave.

The Healthy Families Act of 2007 (S910/HR1542), a bicameral bill introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), requires employers with 15 or more workers to provide 7 days of paid sick leave annually to employees who work 30 or more hours a week for their own medical needs or to care for a family member. The bill also requires employers to provide pro-rata paid sick days to part-time workers.

The Families and Workplace Balancing Act of 2007 (HR2392), introduced by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) is an omnibus bill that authorizes federal grants to state and local governments to develop wage-replacement programs for workers taking family and parental leave; allocates new funding to increase the quality of the child care workforce; provides funding for states to develop full-day, full-year universal pre-k programs for 3, 4, and 5 year olds and after-school care programs; expands the FMLA to cover employers with 15 or more workers, and extends eligibility to employees who work over 1,025 hours/year; expands the FMLA to allow parents and grandparents to take up to 24 hours of unpaid leave in a 12-month period for meetings and activities related to children's education, and allows an additional 24 hours of FMLA leave for children's routine medical care; and requires employers to provides some pro-rated benefits to part-time workers, among other family-friendly provisions.

The Family Leave Insurance Act of 2007 (S1681), introduced by Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), establishes an national insurance program providing up to eight weeks of paid family and medical leave. The program would reimburse 75 - 100 percent of wages for lower-wage earners, and from 55 - 40 percent of wages for workers earning between $30K and $97K per year. The Act also includes modified paid leave provisions for workers not currently covered by the FMLA. Costs will be shared by employees, employers, and the federal government.

In addition to the introduction of family-friendly legislation, sponsors and supporters of the bills have convened congressional hearings on working families and public policy:

  • On June 14, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Vice Chair of the Join Economic Committee, convened a hearing on "Importing Success: Why Work-Family Policies from Abroad Make Economic Sense for the U.S." The hearing was timed with the release of a new report compiled by the Government Accountability Office, Women and Low Wage Workers: Efforts in Other Countries to Help These Workers Enter and Remain in the Workforce (summary/testimony, 25 pages in .pdf). Testimony was provided by Kay Brown, Acting Director of Education, Workforce, and Income Security, GAO; Dr. Janet Gornick, co-author of Families That Work; Ellen Bravo, Coordinator, Multi-State Working Families Consortium, Former Director of 9to5, and the author of Taking on the Big Boys; Laura Wallace, Director of the Work Life Program at SAS; and Dr. Tim Kane of the Heritage Foundation. >Link to written testimony and a video webcast
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey, sponsor of the newly reintroduced Families and Workplace Balancing Act, convened the first of a series of hearing on "Balancing Work and Family: What Policies Best Support American Families" before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections on June 21. Witnesses, including Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and Judy Biggert, Kristin Rowe Finkbeiner of MomsRising, provided expert and personal testimony. >Link to written testimony and a video webcast

Similar bills have failed to progress in past congressional sessions (see Rep. DeLauro's comments in the previous news brief), but advocates hope increased public interest in the unmet needs of working families will draw more support for the current round of legislation. NOW and MomsRising recently launched campaigns in support of The Balancing Act.

National Organization for Women:
Help Families Strike a Balancing Act

MomsRising.org:
Support the Balancing Act

National Partnership for Women & Families:
Support the Healthy Families Act

Related articles:

Listen To The Children
Ellen Bravo, TomPaine.com, 15.jun.07
"Teachers tell researchers they’ve never seen so many children coming to school sick. Guilt-ridden mothers share stories of sending ailing kids to day care or school out of fear that staying home with them would result in discipline on the job. …These stories don’t surprise me. But what was startling was finding out how many kids drag themselves to school sick to keep a parent from losing pay or getting fired."

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Reports & Resources:

Study finds low wages, high turnover prevalent
in caregiving workforce

According to a new analysis, workers in two fast growing care giving occupations -- direct care workers (personal care assistants, home care aides, home health aides, and certified nursing assistants) and child care workers (preschool and nursery school teachers, centerbased child care providers, and home-based family child care providers) -- generally receive low pay and lack health insurance, and both occupations experience high levels of turnover. 89 percent of direct care workers, and 97 percent of child care workers, are women.

The study, by Kristin Smith and Reagan Baughman for the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, reports on key demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the direct care and child care workforce and outlines policies to reduce turnover by raising wages.

In 2005, 2.7 million Americans were employed in the direct care and child care workforce. While child care workers tend to have higher levels of education, their median hourly earnings were lower than those of direct care workers ($7.69/hour compared to $9.26/hour). One in every two direct care workers, and one in every three child care workers, live in low-income or poor families. Direct care workers were also more likely to be single mothers than child care workers and women workers overall. The authors of the study also found the one-quarter of direct care and child care workers lack health insurance coverage, compared to 16 percent of women workers nationwide.

The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire
www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu

Low Wages Prevalent In Direct Care and Child Care Workforce
Kristin Smith and Reagan Baughman, Carsey Institute, Summer 2007
Press release with highlights
Summary sheet, 2 pages in .pdf
Policy Brief, 12 pages in .pdf

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New project spotlights state variation in support for
low-income children and families

A new report and user-friendly online data bank developed by the National Center for Children in Poverty offers a comprehensive picture of policies supporting the health, education, and well-being of low-income children and families in all 50 states.

The project, Improving the Odds for Young Children, tracks policies to:

  • Promote healthy development -- access to health care for young children, their parents, and pregnant women; to nutrition programs; and to address mental health and other barriers parents of young children face.
  • Promote high-quality early care and education -- access to high-quality child care, responsive to the special needs of infants and toddlers; and access to prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds.
  • Promote effective parenting -- to ensure that parents/mothers have time to build a relationship with their young children, especially infants, while maximizing family resources.

Improving the Odds provides state-specific profiles that integrate information about health and nutrition, early care and learning, and parenting support policies while also painting an overall portrait of state-level efforts. The state profiles can be readily used by legislators, the business community, and others looking for a quick yet comprehensive overview of a state’s efforts to promote healthy development and school readiness. The project also conducts ongoing analyses to highlight both policy opportunities and challenges to improve the odds for young children.

National Center for Children in Poverty
www.nccp.org

State Early Childhood Policies: Improving the Odds
Helene Stebbins and Jane Knitzer, National Center for Children in Poverty
May 2007, 21 pages, in .pdf

Improving the Odds: State Profiles and Tools
Includes interactive table on state policy recommendations

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Women & the workplace:

Selected news and commentary on women & work

Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Huffington Post, 4.jun.07
"A new book published this month by the Harvard Business School Press research demonstrates the costs associated with women's non-linear career paths. Among the findings of this new study is that 37 percent of highly qualified women take an off-ramp (voluntarily leave their careers for a period of time) and another third take a slow land or "scenic route" (a flextime option, a reduced hour job)."

Mommies Opting Out of Work: A Myth That Won't Die
Heather Boushey, AlterNet. 9.jun.07
Last year it was the "opt-out" myth, and this year the story is about opting back in. Both tales defy the hard evidence.

Keeping work where it belongs
Maggie Jackson, Boston Globe, 2.jun.07
"Denizens of the Wireless World, take heed. There's a quiet, embryonic movement afoot to slip the technology leash, cast off the 'crackberrys,' and awake! In short, 24/7 accessibility may be becoming passé."

Day care concern is not child's play
Marilyn Elias, USA Today, 20.jun.07
"Worry has been an ongoing theme since baby-boom women surged into the labor market. The percentage of mothers of preschoolers with jobs jumped from 30 percent to 60 percent between 1970 and 1990 and has edged up to 65 percent since then. But today's parents have an advantage: Research on day care has greatly increased in the last decade, with findings that have been mostly reassuring."

Guild Finds No Progress for Hollywood Women Writers
Melissa Silverstein, Women's Media Center, 31.may.07
"Ever read the credits of your favorite TV show or movie? Chances are it was written by a man. A recent report from the Writer's Guild of America West, 'Whose Stories Are We Telling?' shows us why. The story the report tells is of an industry whose 'business-as-usual-practices have been wholly inadequate for addressing the lack of diversity among writers.'"

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families:

MomsRising launches FamiliesRising.org

Just before Father's Day (June 17), leaders of MomsRising announced the launch of FamiliesRising.org, a new blog and special section on the MomsRising web site for men who care about children and families. According to the web site, "With FamiliesRising we are creating a place where fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, and others can amplify their voices, and take action to help create a truly family-friendly America." The team at MomsRising also created a special Father's Day eCard with the group's trademark "Infant Aerial Stunt Team" animation and a slightly revised version of their MOTHER action agenda to fit the FATHERly occasion. Guest bloggers on the debut page of the DadsBlog include John deGraff, founder of Take Back Your Time and director of the Motherhood Manifesto documentary, and work-life scholar Robert Drago (unfortunately, the comment section of the blog was disabled at press time, so public feedback on the project is not yet available). Other than the blog, the content and products offered through FamiliesRising mirrors material on the main MomsRising web site.

MomRising.org

FamiliesRising.org

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Mothers in the military, fathering from prison, hands on dads and other news and commentary on parenting and families

Long Tours Extend Heartaches for Military Moms
Alison Bowen, Women's eNews, 27.may.07
Thirty-eight percent of active-duty military women are mothers. Many are deployed abroad but have children at home in the U.S. A congressional report says these military moms lack child care support and services to help ease the separations.

Mom in custody dispute allowed to leave military
Andrea Stone, USA Today, 10.jun.07
"Of the fewer than 1% of soldiers who desert each year, most do it 'for personal, family or financial reasons,' says Maj. Anne Edgecomb, an Army spokeswoman. All military parents must have a plan designating who will care for their children if they are deployed. Sometimes plans go awry. 'We're seeing more of these custody issues' because of repeat deployments, says Joyce Raezer of the National Military Family Association. 'The military is asking more of people than they signed up to provide, so what worked before in terms of child care arrangements no longer does.'"

Dreams for My Daughter
Roger Griffin, Rise Magazine, June 2007
"Being locked up going on four years, I’ve learned a lot about prison and its effects on prisoners and everyone in their lives. The saying is, 'We don’t do prison bids by ourselves.' …Mothers become single parents, and because we’re in here their responsibilities increase. Plus a lot of men in prison expect their wives or girlfriends to take care of them. I’ve noticed that when a prisoner is stressed, his family is also. Relationships become filled with tension and families break up." Rise (www.risemagazine.org) is a magazine written by and for parents who have been involved in the child welfare system. Its mission is to help parents advocate for themselves and their children. Rise provides parents with information and true stories about the system's role in families' lives. It also helps child welfare workers and administrators understand the parents’ experiences and needs.

Celebrating the hands-on dad;
'Shared care' parenting bends the old rules, sheds gender norms

Maggie Jackson, Boston Globe, 17.jun.07
"It's no longer a shock to see a dad on the playground, at the pediatrician's office, or among the ranks of the PTA, and this is cause enough for celebration on Father's Day. The hands-on dad is here to stay. …But among their ranks are a few pioneers who are redefining fatherhood in an especially exciting way. These men are working with their spouses to carve out equality both at home and at work so that parenting, career advancement, and all of life's rewards and challenges are shouldered and shared."

The Daddying Movement
Allan Shedlin, Connect For Kids, June 2007
"The daddying movement is incomplete and still evolving. Just as women are still battling to break through lingering glass ceilings in the office, men are battling to break through glass ceilings at home. The momentum is likely to increase as a new generation of boys grows up in homes where more fathers are daddying and where there are more male role models demonstrating an expanded view of masculinity."

The littlest shoppers
Helaine Olen, Salon, 30.may.07
Will buying educational toys make your kid a genius -- or just leave you broke? Author Susan Gregory Thomas cuts through the baby-business babble.

Is That Doll Gonna Kill Me? The ins and outs of toy safety testing
Christopher Beam, Slate, 20.jun.07
"Don't toys have to pass safety tests before they hit store shelves? No. Toys sold in America are required by law to meet safety standards, but all presale testing is voluntary."

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women & activism:

Taking on the Big Boys, why feminists fight, and more news and commentary about women making change

Taking on the Big Boys: Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and the Nation
Emily Wilson, AlterNet, 1.jun.07
In her book, Taking on the Big Boys, Ellen Bravo shows that ordinary women can effect change, and when they do, everyone benefits.

Why Feminists Fight With Each Other
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet, 12.jun.07
An interview with the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted provides historical context for contemporary feminist infighting: the overblown mommy wars, raunch feminists and their older, horrified detractors, and bloggers virtually ripping one another apart.

The Hillary Dilemma: Does Sisterhood Trump Peace?
Gail Johnson, Common Dreams, 21.jun.07
"The divisive question of the women’s movement returned. Should women vote for a woman candidate just because she’s a woman, regardless of other issues? Looking back in history, it is clear that the various factions of the women’s movement rarely supported a woman just because she was a woman."

Maloney and Ginsberg Parry High Court Ruling
Juliette Terzieff, Women's eNews, 1.jun.07
The only woman on the Supreme Court called on Congress to come up with a law to counteract this week's majority ruling on gender-based pay discrimination. New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney has done just that.

Looking to Congress for Justice on Wage Bias and Gender Discrimination
Peggy Simpson, AlterNet, 2.jun.07
The Supreme Court's latest ruling is a dangerous setback to civil rights. With any hope, Congress will correct it.

What's So Wrong With Wearing Heels and Makeup?
Susan Park, AlterNet, 17.jun.07
Women in the military are expected to suppress as many of their feminine qualities as possible -- as if that will make them more competent. Why do so many people still think that dressing femininely translates into being silly?

"Women Center Stage"
Festival To Provide Some Much Needed Balance to Macho Media

Don Hazen, AlterNet, 20.jun.07
"I'm happy at the prospect of the festival because it is exciting to know that strong and charismatic women are gathering and their talents are being showcased. I'm conflicted because the seeming gender specific nature of the festival may make it too easy for men to dismiss or marginalize the ideas and talent being presented or not see it as a place where we belong in the audience."

News You Can Relate To? Try Your Local 'Placeblog'
Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews, 30.may.07
"Placeblogs" serve millions of Americans with hyper-local news and commentary and women run many of these operations. Sheila Gibbons says this new news niche is a welcome alternative to media whose efforts to serve women have failed.

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Reproductive health & rights:

Throwing money at abstinence ed, states see increase in infant mortality, civil unions, more

Report: Sex doesn't harm older teens
Sharon Jayson, USA Today, 28.may.07
"The latest research, to be published Thursday in the American Journal of Sociology, suggests having sex doesn't harm the mental health of teens, except for those ages 15 or younger whose relationships tend to be less committed."

The Expensive Failure of Abstinence Education
Amy DePaul, AlterNet, 31.may.07
The Bush administration's point man for conservative -- and often morality-driven -- social policy, such as abstinence-only sex education, has resigned. But only time will tell whether his programs remain federal policy.

Civil unions spread, but gays want to wed
Christine Vestal, Stateline.org, 31.may.07
"Although gay rights activists say they are grateful for the legal protections that come with civil unions -- including hospital visitation and burial rights, inheritance without a will and access to a partner’s health-insurance benefits -- they stridently object to the notion that civil unions are the same as marriage… Even with the marriage title -- available only in Massachusetts -- same-sex couples do not have the same rights as different-sex couples because the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act bars them from receiving some 1,100 federal rights, including married-couple tax breaks and transfer of Social Security benefits."

Mississippi Grapples with Rising Infant Death Rate
Kathy Lohr, NPR Morning Edition, 20.jun.07
"The rate of infant mortality in the U.S. has been steadily declining since 1960, when 27 out of every 1,000 newborns died. Now the national average stands at 6.9 deaths per 1,000 births. But some Southern states are seeing a disturbing trend: Their infant-mortality rates are not improving, and some are getting worse. The most recent statistics show Mississippi had the biggest increase in the number of babies dying in their first year of life." Audio program and transcript available.

'Knocked Up' Bans Abortion from Script
Sandra Kobrin, Women's eNews, 20.jun.07
"Knocked Up" is about a woman with an unintended pregnancy that could wreck her career. So why is the possibility of an abortion expurgated from the script? Sandra Kobrin sees anti-choice propaganda at a cinema near you.

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Social issues:

Demos offers new web resource on wealth-and-income inequality

Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization "committed to building an America that achieves its highest democratic ideals," has launched an online clearinghouse for resources and information on America's growing economic divide. The project, Inequality.org, is designed for "journalists, teachers, policymakers, citizens." The site includes a "By the Numbers" section with graphs and statistics on the growing wealth gap, a news round up of press stories related to income inequality, a listing of recently published books and reports, a recommended reading list, links to related advocacy and social justice organizations, and an editor's blog. MMO looks forward to seeing the project develop over the next few months.

Demos
www.demos.org

Inequality.org
www.inequality.org

Related articles:

Bush's "Magic" Economic Formula:
The Rich get Richer; Regular People Lose Ground

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet, 4.jun.07
"It's not a question of conservatism vs. liberalism. Of government vs. free markets. All economies are, of necessity, mixed. All governments are concerned with the wealth of their nation. Government decisions will always effect how business operates. The question is, does the way government spends and invests create a sounder and healthier society? Or does it merely make certain sectors and classes rich, while hollowing out our economy?"

The Trouble With the Super-Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation, 12.jun.07
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass. A great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor.

CEOs vs. Slaves
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation, 29.may.07
"CEOs and slaves: These are the extreme ends of American class polarization. But a parallel kind of splitting is going in many of the professions."

The Homeownership Myth
Howard Karger, Dollars & Sense, Spring 2007
"While homeownership has undeniable benefits, that doesn't mean it is the best option for everyone. For many low-income families, buying a home imposes burdens that end up outweighing the benefits. It is time to re- assess the policy emphasis on homeownership, which has been driven by an honest belief in the advantages of homeownership, but also by a wide range of business interests who stand to gain when a new cohort of buyers is brought into the housing market."

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More reporting and commentary on social issues

America's Teaching Crisis
Jason Kamras and Andrew Rotherham, Democracy Journal, Summer 2007
"We have failed to create an educational system that provides even an approximation of equal opportunity to all children, regardless of background. These opportunity-crushing gaps tear at the fabric of America’s social compact, especially as jobs requiring a strong mind rather than a strong back increasingly become the avenue for individual opportunity and national competitiveness."

Forced Family Breakdown
Kinsey Alden Dinan and Nancy K. Cauthen, TomPaine.com, 6.jun.07
"Millions of America’s children -- more than one in five -- live in immigrant families. Most of these children are U.S. citizens, and it is in the interests of all Americans that they grow up to become healthy and productive members of society. Strong, stable families can provide a crucial source of support to children in immigrant families as they face hardship."

One More Child Left Behind
Dolores Huerta, Ms. Magazine, Spring 2007
How U.S. policies harm immigrant women and their children -- let alone the nations they come from.

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