By raising barriers to economic assistance and legal recourse, the legislation sends the message to countless women living in violent households that their place is still at home.
The question we should be asking is not whether domestic caregiving is more or less important than wage work—they’re both crucial, and crucially different.
Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein, Dissent Magazine. March 19, 2012.
Faced with cuts in programs and stripped of their bargaining rights, home care workers are trying to maintain the activist vigor of their scrappy past.
New regulations would give nearly 2 million home-care workers, most of whom are women and many women of color, wage and hour protections for the first time.
Fred Schulte, Ben Protess, Lagan Sebert, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. June 6, 2010.
Vicki Valentine lost the two-story brick row home after the city sold her debt to investors through a contentious and byzantine legal process called a "tax sale."
Too often, discussions about homemaking are radicalized in one direction or another. It's time to re-imagine family structure with an eye toward environmental responsibility.
With home-decorating TV shows and magazines multiplying by the minute, we need to start talking about more eco-friendly alternatives to Ikea and Pottery Barn.
