What’s New
Karen Corday February 20th, 2009
New from the Network:
- Policy Mini-Brief: Work-Family Information on Small Businesses
- Please join us for our free Thought Leaders Conference Call: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life: The Theory and Practice of Total Leadership. March 5th from 2-3 pm.
- We are now using Twitter to collect and link to U.S. and global work-family news items as well as announce new additions to our site. This will replace What’s New in Work and Family and What’s New in Work and Family From Around the Globe. Look for daily, instead of weekly, updates, which means the news is delivered in a more timely and immediate fashion! Follow us at http://twitter.com/SloanNetwork. There is also a feed running on the sidebar of our Work and Family Blog as well as the home page of our site. Questions or comments? Please email me at corday@bc.edu.
Free Work and Family Content on the Web:
From now on, my Friday blog entry will feature new work and family-related research, reports, and other content that may be accessed free of charge online. Much of this content will also be added to our Literature Database and/or our Topic Pages. This week’s highlights:
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [full summary of provisions from Senate Finance, House Ways & Means Committee]
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: State-by-state Estimates of Key Provisions Affecting Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals
- Federal Reserve: Changes in Family Finances from 2004 to 2007: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
- Institute for Women’s Policy Research: Valuing Good Health in Massachusetts: The Costs and Benefits of Paid Sick Days
- RAND/National Defense Research Institute: Deployment Experiences of Guard and Reserve Families: Implications for Support and Retention
- National Science Foundation: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
- Corporate Voices for Working Families: Workplace Lactation Toolkit
