{"id":56039,"date":"2017-04-03T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=56039"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:45:11","slug":"introducing-family-values-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2017\/introducing-family-values-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Family Values @ Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyvaluesatwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56173 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fvaw.jpg\" alt=\"Family Values @ Work | Better to Give\" width=\"650\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UncommonGoods <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/staff-bios\" target=\"_blank\">team members<\/a> are passionate about their work. As partners, parents, sons, and daughters, we\u2019re also committed to family. All workers should be able to balance the two, but most Americans can\u2019t afford to take time off to care for a new child or seriously ill loved one. In fact, the United States is the only industrialized nation without a national paid leave program, and only 14 percent of American workers have access to paid family leave through their employer. Thanks to a lot of active voices (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/article\/20150920\/OPINION\/150919858\/op-ed-new-yorkers-need-paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\">including ours<\/a>) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny.gov\/programs\/paid-family-leave-strong-families-strong-ny\" target=\"_blank\">strongest paid leave policy in the United States<\/a>\u00a0last year.\u00a0However, there is still more work to do.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UncommonGoods\/status\/839475899762360321\" target=\"_blank\">International Women\u2019s Day<\/a>, we partnered with <a href=\"http:\/\/familyvaluesatwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Family Values @ Work<\/a>, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a network of coalitions in 24 states working to pass paid leave policies, to launch an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\">interactive map <\/a>designed for you to learn the status of your state&#8217;s paid family leave campaign and take action. As we build on this campaign through Mother\u2019s Day and Father\u2019s Day, we are excited to welcome Family Values @ Work to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/static\/better.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Better to Give<\/a> program. Through this partnership, when you choose Family Values @ Work at checkout, we will donate $1 (at no cost to you) to help them in their mission to advocate for inclusive paid family and medical leave policies in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUncommonGoods has been a true leader in the fight for paid family and medical leave, implementing its own policy and also advocating for public policies that help all workers\u2014not just those who win the boss or zip code lottery,\u201d said <\/span>Ellen Bravo, co-director of Family Values @ Work<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cThe leadership of state coalitions and the private sector is now more important than ever. Many companies have stepped up in recent years because they know paid leave is not only good for families, it\u2019s good for the bottom line.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_56196\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blog-post-pfl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most Americans don\u2019t get paid time off to care for a new child or seriously ill loved one. Click the map to help make paid family leave happen where you live.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Please <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/51069\/p\/salsa\/donation\/common\/public\/?donate_page_KEY=11010\"><b>click here <\/b><\/a><b>if you would like to donate directly to <a href=\"http:\/\/familyvaluesatwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Family Values @ Work<\/a>.\u00a0To get involved in the movement, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\">www.uncommongoods.pro\/paid-family-leave<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you choose Family Values @ Work at checkout, we will donate $1 (at no cost to you) to help them in their mission to advocate for inclusive paid family and medical leave policies in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":56173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[315,2371,2141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56039"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56204,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039\/revisions\/56204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}