You said it,...and Here we Have It
Posted on 06/23/2014 10:49:44 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Obama speaks at White House Summit on Working Families
(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...
I was going with my family, but we’re all working.
This is like Hitler speaking about the comforts of the death camps.
Wonder if he told working families how many other families they are supporting because Obama policies cost jobs!
Where did you find those photos? Are they real?
Are they fake?
Good find, and thanks for pasting that. NPR is blocked on my company firewall...
10:30 a.m. ET:
Latifa Lyles, Director of the Women’s Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor, on facebook.com/departmentoflabor
•11:00 am ET:
National Partnership for Women & Families on facebook.com/nationalpartnership
•2:30 pm ET:
Moms Rising on facebook.com/MomsRising.org
•3:00 pm ET:
Leader Nancy Pelosi on facebook.com/NancyPelosi
Anna Maria Chávez, CEO of the Girl Scouts, on facebook.com/GirlScoutsUSA
•3:30 pm ET:
Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, on facebook.com/americanprogress
Betsey Stevenson, Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, on the White House Facebook Page
•4:00 pm ET:
Congresswoman Doris Matsui on facebook.com/doris.matsui
Ellen Bravo, Executive Director of Family Values @ Work, on facebook.com/womensmediacenter
White House Moves To Overhaul Policies For Working Parents
The White House Summit on Working Families will be a broad discussion among policymakers, employers and working parents about ways to implement family friendly work policies, but Obama will also use the event to urge lawmakers to pass a few specific legislative proposals pending in Congress. The FAMILY Act would provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave each year to qualifying workers for an illness, the serious illness of an immediate family member, or the birth or adoption of a child, and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would require employers to make certain accommodations for pregnant women that allow them to keep their jobs.
Being a working parent is relatively tough in the United States, thanks to a lack of policies guaranteeing flexibility, paid leave and affordable childcare. But the White House is aiming to change that this year with major policy summit on Monday and a months-long, multidimensional campaign to elevate the conversation about how federal policy can help parents juggle the demands of life and work.
The U.S. is one of only three countries in the world, along with Papa New Guinea and Oman, lacking guaranteed paid maternity leave for working moms, according to the United Nations. Most developed countries require employers to provide some amount of paid maternity or paternity leave, paid family and sick leave, and affordable early childhood education for their workers.
The U.S. lags significantly behind other developed countries in all of these areas. As a result, a relatively low percentage of women participate in the workforce. In 1990, the U.S. had the sixth-highest female labor participation rate among 22 of the world’s wealthiest countries. Today, the U.S. ranks 17th.
The reason the U.S. is falling behind, according to White House economic advisers, is the nation’s policies for working parents have not kept up with the reality of the 21st century American family. Today, in more than 60 percent of U.S. families with children, both parents in the household work. In 1965, only 40 percent of families with children had both parents working. But despite the increase, the nation has not adapted to make it easier for working parents to balance their jobs with the economic and logistical difficulties of raising families.
“At a time when women make up about half of America’s workforce, outdated workplace policies that make it harder for mothers to work hold our entire economy back,” Obama said in his weekly address to the nation on Saturday. “But these aren’t just problems for women. Men also care about who’s watching their kids. They’re rearranging their schedules to make it to soccer games and school plays. Lots of sons help care for aging parents. And plenty of fathers would love to be home for their new baby’s first weeks in the world.”
The White House and Democrats in Congress are in the midst of an effort to elevate the national discussion this year about policies that they believe benefit working parents. Democratic congresswomen took a bus tour across the country earlier this month to talk to women about their economic agenda, which includes paid sick and family leave, affordable childcare, raising the minimum wage and strengthening equal pay protections for women. And the White House, the Department of Labor and the Center for American Progress on Monday will host the Summit on Working Families, which will include multiple panel discussions with top administration officials, business leaders, lawmakers and working families about ways to help working parents have a work-life balance and make ends meet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/23/white-house-working-parents-policies_n_5518197.html
like a laser... again.
What BS!!!
White House Gets To Work For Working Families
Jun 23, 2014 9:06am
By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone)
NOTABLES
•TODAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE: The White House is mounting a major media blitz today around its first-ever “Working Families Summit,” ABC’s DEVIN DWYER notes. President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will all attend and speak. The Council of Economic Advisers is out with two new reports to help trumpet the cause: “The Economics of Paid and Unpaid Leave,” and “Nine Facts about American Families and Work.” A series of panels and presentations will highlight “best practices” among public and private employers for providing greater flexibility to workers as they balance the demands of job and family. The “announcements” the president will make are very small ball: He’ll sign a memo to direct federal agencies to do what they’re already supposed to be doing in terms of workplace flexibility; he’ll go on record supporting a bill that would require employers to make reasonable accommodations to workers who have “limitations from pregnancy, childbirth or other medical conditions;” and the Labor Department will unveil a new interactive online map that will outline rights for pregnant women by state, among other things.
•GOP COUNTER-PROGRAMMING: From House Speaker John Boehner’s blog: “Today, President Obama will host a summit on working families that the White House says will focus ‘on creating a 21st century workplace that works for all Americans.’ Trouble is, too many middle-class families aren’t working at all. And those that are lucky enough to have a job are barely getting by with stagnant wages and higher costs on nearly everything. … While House Republicans are focused on expanding opportunity and economic security for middle-class families, President Obama’s policies are only making things harder. Here’s how: http://1.usa.gov/1qsEfFA“;
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/white-house-gets-to-work-for-working-families-the-note/
Used to be, only one parent had to work. Now, the whole family has to work.
joanne odel > Fox Free • 3 hours ago
50 bill on foodstamps, 20 trill in debt, 60 bill in unfunded liabilities, detroit bankrupt, fathers day hardly celebrated, 25+% employees are for the government, failed war on poverty, minority unemployment thru the roof, inflation evident in everything from the price of milk to QE indefinitely....
and liberals want to borrow more from china!
astounding!!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/white-house-gets-to-work-for-working-families-the-note/
Tom > Fox Free • an hour ago
I think you should volunteer YOUR time and donate YOUR money since you’re such a big fan of putting someone else’s money in the hand of the consumer.
they are stored here
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bq0RK8SCEAAtaHv.jpg
Im thinking that they may in fact be authentic..
the Domain twimg.com....stands for twitter image.
whether it was pbs aka the “public broadcasting system”...that uploaded the sign images to pbs.twimg.com I dont know for certain
Revelation 14:18-19
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Ive often wondered whether or not the Obama Era....was a part of God’s Judgement of America.
A Nation cant murder millions of babies a year and expect to go scot free.
I’m fairly sure those poster boards are the real deal. Remember, Valerie Jarrett and a boy raised by a Feminst single mother and a transgender cross-dressing nanny is in the house!
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