EVENT: GETTING REAL ABOUT FAMILIES. Next Thursday, TAP, along with the Economic Policy Institute, is sponsoring a forum, Getting Real About Families. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee and the sponsor of the Healthy Families Act, will be the keynote speaker. Heidi Hartmann will present a paper outlining a comprehensive work-family policy for the U.S. Janet Gornick will present a paper on the European, Japanese, and U.S. experience regulating work hours to allow a better work-family balance. The even will also feature a screening of the film The Motherhood Manifesto.
Getting Real About Families
An Agenda for Shared Prosperity forum
EPI, 1333 H Street, NW; East Tower, Suite 300, Washington, DC
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 7:30 am - 10:00 am
Free and open to the publicToday most parents with children work outside the home. Yet the pace of progress toward family-friendly national work policies has been glacial, leaving many parents struggling to cope, often without even such basics as paid sick leave to enable them to take care of a sick child. Despite its rhetoric about valuing both families and work, the United States has fallen far behind other advanced nations in giving family-friendly words real meaning in the world of work.Please join with leading experts on the subject for a discussion about what the U.S. can do to get serious about giving working parents the help and support they need in their efforts to provide for their families.
Click here to register. --The Editors
