Sentences with phrase «facing working families»

«She knows the challenges facing working families across our city and will be their advocate at City Hall.

The Republican candidate's homeless challenge mirrors similar efforts by Democratic politicians to highlight the problems facing working families.

The government is not alone in looking for ways to help reconcile the challenges facing working families with young children, with the Liberal Democrats proposing 19 months of more generous parental leave (able to be taken by any parent) and the Conservative Party proposing flexible parental leave to help make Britain more family friendly.

The changing composition of the Supreme Court is just one of the serious threats facing working families and labor unions following Trump's election.

«SEIU members across the country are working hard to inform voters about where candidates stand on key issues facing working families, and to elect candidates up and down the ballot who will fight for working families.»

Here is there description for tax purposes: The Working Families Organization («WFO») is a 501 (c)(4) organization focusing primarily on nonpartisan advocacy on important issues facing working families.

«We are a unified team of elected officials, and we will continue to work together to address the urgent problems facing working families, and to restore confidence in the ability of government to get things done and deliver lasting results.»

Not exact matches

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

Employers are adopting resilience training for their employees at a rate faster than any other intervention in the United States.1 Resilience — the ability to use positive mental skills to remain psychologically steady and focused when faced with challenges or adversity — contributes substantially to how workers deal with stress and perform at work.2, 3 Employers are developing resilience to achieve a competitive advantage, similar to how the military trains active duty soldiers and their family members to withstand challenges.4, 5

«I personally am unwilling to face another family member who's lost a loved one as a result of these mass shootings that could be prevented by making sure the background check system works as Congress intended.»

«I personally am unwilling to face another family member who's lost a loved one as a result of one of these mass shootings that could be prevented by making sure the background check system works as Congress intended,» he said.

Congress» failure to protect the data of vulnerable users has created real world fears for immigrant rights activists working tirelessly to protect undocumented families facing a wave of deportation under President Trump.

We work with some of the leading family business owners around the world and have a deep understanding of the key challenge they face: how to sustain a complex, successful family enterprise across generations under ever - changing global economic conditions.

In comparison, gun control advocates are motivated by more abstract notions of reducing gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies by engaging more actively in advocacy work, which could make the gun control movement feel more relatable.

Even if one chooses to completely ignore the historical foundations of inequitable opportunities in America and tries to eliminate any discussion of race, we are still faced with the fact that millions of kids have grown up and are growing up in places where the economic incentives and social supports don't favor stable work and families.

This may work for some people, but it doesn't work for the family earning minimum wage, or the couple facing infertility, or this awesome church community of immigrants that shares the responsibility of child - rearing together.

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The equal - regard interpretation of neighbor love fits the needs of the postmodern family faced with a new range of issues around shared authority, more equal financial power, and more nearly equal roles in raising children and meeting each other's needs in the midst of the 80 - hour work week.

For while it is true that culture expresses itself through every form of communication: face - to - face, family, school, work, recreation, and so on, today television is assuming the dominant role of expression in our lives.

At the same time, the whole process of creating an adoptive family raises many concerns about identity and belonging; concerns not unlike those we are all faced with: Three professionals who work with adoptive families (Anderson, Piantanida, and Anderson, 1993) list the questions about identity and belonging that an adopted child will likely have as she or he reaches adolescence:

Cruz has largely followed the classic Moral Majority model that was the face of the conservative movement — he has received endorsements from figures such as Focus on the Family founder James Dobson — while Trump «tends to work most closely with the prosperity wing of Pentecostalism» which tends to believe that God would financially reward believers.

After a decade - plus of working, worshiping, and growing families in the States, TPS recipients now have until next September to leave or obtain green card status; if they stay past the deadline, they will face the risks of living in the US illegally.

After spending time volunteering with the United Nations, Simon recognised that many of the economic problems faced by the families in the communities he worked with stemmed from their lack of appropriate storage.

As I reported in Women's eNews, Obama says her top concern is issues facing women in the workplace — that is, pay discrimination and difficulties women have balancing the demands of work and family.

It is their desire to work together with local community resources to provide assistance to families who are facing challenges after their adoptions have been finalized.

we already faced and went through what many married couples go through being married for 40 to 50 years such as death of a parent, death of many family members from different things (most deaths they were 20 and 40 yrs old), gun voilence due to an adult not locking the gun away, the victims were 12 years old, a house fire that destroyed just about everything, car accident which resulted in surgery with 2 years unable to work, inlaws, rasing children, ect...)

The challenges that experienced fathers say are most important, and some of their best advice is as follows: The basic challenge you face is not changing diapers or comforting a crying baby, but working with your wife to form a new family.

So one of the biggest things facing moms in America right now is that three - quarters of moms are either the primary or the co-bread winner in the families, but moms in particular still are not making equal pay for equal work.

Kelly found support from her sister who encouraged her to be firm about her internal compass in the face of many differing opinions: «Your only option is to learn to listen to yourself and know that you know your situation, and what works for your family, better than anyone else.»

If a NICU stay drags on, eventually parents have to face practical matters like returning to work, caring for other children, and coordinating family visits.

Having to attend face - to - face meetings with fellow work colleagues, customers and suppliers can involve spending hours away from your desk and, more importantly, your family on a weekly and monthly basis.

The Interfaith Leadership Council, working hand - in - hand with the social justice group United Power for Action and Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a lawyer.

In recognition that families often face a lack of consistent support once they've left the hospital, The Milk Mob works towards creating Breastfeeding Friendly Medical Systems and Communities.

Our independent therapists meet weekly to learn together and work in an integrated manner, which allows us to assimilate various approaches and better assess, understand, and address the challenges facing the whole child and the whole family.

Chapter 2 looks at the challenges mothers and fathers face in attempting to balance work and family life.

She loves working with little ones and their families, and can't wait to see your smiling faces in class soon.

She values working with pregnant women and couples as they face difficult choices, and she appreciates the opportunity to witness the hospitious nature of adoptive parents as they welcome birth families into their lives.

Multi-ethnic parents, gay couples, working moms, stay - at - home dads, and a myriad of faces and «flavors» make family diversity the new norm.

When we do the inner work of unburdening ourselves, we can show up for our families in a whole new way with more resilience to face the traffic and noise of daily life and better able to «be the peace» that makes home a safe haven where our children can thrive.

Q: Of all the issues single parent families face today, you chose to focus on making co-parenting, or shared parenting, work.

Ideal World vs. Real World: it's a struggle I face daily professionally as an Occupational Therapist working with families and personally as a mama of babies and toddlers.

Without help, many families can face the untenable choice of not working or leaving their children in unsafe, unstable, or poor quality child care arrangements.

Now in private practice, Maureen focuses on work with families experiencing parenting challenges, families facing co-parenting challenges after separation, bereaved parents who have suffered the loss of a child, and caregivers feeling compassion fatigue.

After working with thousands of families over my years as a family psychologist, I've found that one of the most common predicaments parents face is how to get kids to do what they're asked.

The work in children's centres is targeted to reach families who are facing difficulties such as unemployment or low income, domestic violence, mental health, families with children with special needs or any other barrier.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

During this time, our specialized team of skilled clinicians works with individuals and their families to better understand the complex nature of digital media use, the inherent developmental challenges being faced, and the underlying medical and mental health conditions which complicate a desire to change.

Beyond my own job, many in our wider circle of family and friends face the challenges of raising children and working at the same time.

However, when I was telling another (town) mom about this, she had this look on her face, like «How dare I have my child help me or work on our family farm!

That authenticity may just be the selling point that helps working moms overcome hurdles they have traditionally faced when running for office, says Amanda Hunter, communications director at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation.