Social security!!! I know, I know, you will be tempted to stop reading this post as soon as you realize I’m going to talk about retirement - AGAIN!. But wait. Maybe it feels too far away. Maybe the problems you are solving today seem so much more important. Maybe you are too maxed out with the here and now to even contemplate [...]
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A Mother on the Edge
This post originally appeared on the Mothers Central blog. You can see it here in its original form. Thanks to Kate for letting me post it here in full. It was a desperate cry for help, and one that I could not ignore. It came via email, at the end of the summer, from a [...]

A Long Time Comin’…
By Valerie Young on November 7, 2013 in Caregiving, Culture, Economic Equality, Equal Pay, gender based pay disparity, gender discrimination, unpaid household labor, women in politics
Ladies, we are in serious trouble here. In the annual ranking of 133 countries around the globe on the issue of gender equality, the U.S. once again fails to make the top 10. Or the top 20. We may be the world’s only remaining super power, but women are worse off here, according to the World Economic [...]
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