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GOP Version of Violence Against Women Act Tries to Push Women Back Into the Home

Michelle Chen, In These Times. May 17, 2012.

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.

What We Still Get Wrong About Women and Work

Michelle Chen, In These Times. April 19, 2012.

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.

If We Let Health Care Workers Lose Their Jobs and Homes, Who's Left to Care for Us?

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.

Good News for Low-Paid Home Health Care Workers: Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay On the Way

R. M. Arrieta, In These Times. December 18, 2011.

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.

How To Work From Home

Morra Aarons-Mele, AlterNet. March 23, 2011.

Even when you've forgone the traditional nine-to-five schedule, a routine is important.

Woman Sees Her Home Confiscated Over a Water Bill

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."

Can Reproduction Have a Place in a Sustainable Life?

Shannon Hayes, YES! Magazine. April 21, 2010.

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.

How You Can Start a Farm in Heart of the City

Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen, Process Media. January 9, 2009.

Sick of flavorless, genetically modified, pesticide-drenched frankenvegetables? It's time to start growing food in your back yard.

Bush's New Neighborhood Barred Non-Whites Until 2000

Staff, Huffington Post. December 8, 2008.

Until 2000, the neighborhood association's covenant said only white people were allowed to live there, though an exception was made for servants.

Even Progressives Need to Decorate

Shannon Rupp, The Tyee. October 25, 2006.

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.

Three Ways Maryland May Legalize Medical Pot

Kristen Gwynne, December 31, 1969.


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