What’s New

Karen Corday January 16th, 2009

New from the Network:

The Struggles of Being Laid Off for the First Time
Deborah Hastings of the Associated Press interviews four workers recently laid off their jobs and reports on the difficulties of raising a family while enduring a lack of paycheck.
Summary of Tax Cut Proposals in the Stimulus Bill Proposed By House Democrats
U.S. News & World Report summarizes the most recent version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its possible effects on American families.
Ruppersberger and Boxer Introduce Important Child Care Legislation
Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland announces the recently proposed Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2009, which would increase the maximum child care tax credit, increase the Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account cap, expand tax credits to employers for constructing onsite child care centers, and provide a tax cut to college graduates who go into the field of child care.

Work and Family News from Around the Globe:

Tilting Precariously Out of Balance: Increasing Tension Between Work and Family Time
Canada’s Vanier Institute of the Family announces the release of two new reports “that paint a troubling picture of the difficulties Canadians are having in striking a good and healthy balance between work and family responsibilities”: Work Family Balance: What Do We Really Know and Family Life and Work Life: An Uneasy Balance.
The Nordic Balance
Ranjita Biswas of the Hindu Business Line reports that the 2008 Global Gender Gap Report is now available, with Norway topping the list in the best equality norms for women, followed by Finland, Sweden, Iceland, and New Zealand.
Job Autonomy Blurs Work-Life Balance: Study
Rafael Brusilow of Metro Canada discusses a recent study from the University of Toronto that found that workers who make their own schedules tend to bring home more work than workers with less autonomy.