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Workplace Flexibility: Ensuring Success for the 21st Century
Marriott
International, Inc., Carducci & Associates, Ocean Tomo, and Sittercity Become "Business Champions" in National Campaign
 Corporate Voices would
like to congratulate Marriott International, Inc., Carducci &
Associates, Ocean Tomo LLC, and
Sittercity for joining our workplace flexibility campaign since our last
update, and for committing their support for Corporate Voices' Statement
of Support for Expanding Workplace Flexibility.
They join Accenture, Allstate
Insurance Company, AOL, Baxter International Inc., Bright
Horizons Family Solutions, Childrens' Creative Learning Centers, Cisco
Systems, Inc., Ernst & Young, Knowledge Universe, KPMG
LLP, LifeCare, McGladreySM, Sodexo, Workplace
Options, and a growing number of businesses that recognize the value of
workplace flexibility. Workplace flexibility practices enable businesses to
modernize the workplace to meet the needs of the 21st century workforce so that
working families and businesses can be more productive, more competitive,
healthier, and happier.
With generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Corporate Voices launched
this campaign on June 28, after the White
House announced in March that Corporate Voices would lead a campaign to
create a broader awareness of the positive business and employee benefits of
workplace flexibility. We are now inviting all of our corporate partners to
sign our Statement of Support for Expanding Workplace Flexibility and lead
the business community in this effort.
The White House Council on Women and Girls
spotlighted Corporate Voices' workplace flexibility campaign when it publicly
launched its Work-Flex
Event Starter Kit at Vice President Biden's Middle Class Task Force
event on July 20. The Starter Kit is designed to encourage businesses,
employees, and universities to start a conversation in their local communities
about how workplace flexibility can help empower families to meet the dual
demands of work and life.
Corporate Voices looks forward to working with
the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor to galvanize local business
engagement around four regional
flexibility forums that will be planned throughout the year in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, and New York.
Please stay tuned to learn about how your company can become involved!
To see a complete list of Business Champions and
our partners in this campaign, please visit:
www.corporatevoices.org/our-work/flexcampaign.
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Corporate Voices and Working Mother Media Honor the 2010 Best of Congress
 To recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of members of Congress from
both sides of the aisle and throughout the country for their leadership in
improving the quality of life for working families, Working Mother Media
and Corporate
Voices for Working Families have announced the thirty recipients of the
second Best of Congress Award.
The Award spotlights Congressional excellence in supporting working families
through legislation and advocacy.
Equally important, it also recognizes those members of Congress who
practice what they preach - employing family-friendly policies in their own
offices.
Recipients of the Best of Congress Award are featured in the
August/September 2010 issue of Working Mother magazine and at www.workingmother.com.
The Best of Congress Award will be presented to members of Congress at a
recognition breakfast to be held Sept. 22, in Washington, D.C.
Recipients of the 2010 Best of Congress Award are:
U.S. Senate
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
Robert Casey (D-Pennsylvania)
Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia)
Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin)
Patty Murray (D-Washington)
Arlen Specter (D-Pennsylvania)
U.S. House of Representatives
- Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin)
- Russ Carnahan (D-Missouri)
- Susan Davis (D-California)
- Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut)
- Mary Fallin (R-Oklahoma)
- Chaka Fattah (D-Pennsylvania)
- Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona)
- John Lewis (D-Georgia)
- Carolyn Maloney (D-New York)
- Carolyn McCarthy (D-New York)
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington)
- Erik Paulsen (R-Minnesota)
- Dave Reichert (R-Washington)
- Peter Roskam (R-Illinois)
- C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger (D-Maryland)
- Linda Sanchez (D-California)
- Allyson Schwartz (D-Pennsylvania)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida)
- Lynn Woolsey (D-California)
- John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky)
Fifty-seven members of Congress submitted applications for this award, which
is held every two years. Applicants were judged on their voting record,
sponsored/co-sponsored legislation, and efforts to promote legislation that
supports working families. In addition, applicants were asked to submit
policies and practices within their own offices that support working families
and flexible workplace options.
Applications were reviewed by a bipartisan steering
committee co-chaired by Ted Childs, Founder and Principal of Ted Childs, LLC
and Jane Swift, Founder and Principal of WNP Consulting, LLC and former
Governor of Massachusetts. Other steering committee members are Pat Schroeder,
former President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers and former
Congresswoman from Colorado; and Deborah Pryce, attorney at Womble, Carlyle,
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2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book
Released
 The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a Corporate Voices
funding partner, published their 21st annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, which profiles the
status of children and families on a national and state-by-state basis and ranks
states on 10 measures of well-being. It provides easy, online access to the
latest child well-being data on hundreds of indicators by state, county, city,
and school district.
The research found that overall improvements in child
well-being that began in the late 1990s stalled in the years just before the
current economic downturn. The report stressed the tremendous impact of the
current economic downturn on vulnerable children and families, and cautioned
that the full impact will not be known for many years. A couple quick data
points from the report include:
- Based on trend data released by the Casey Foundation,
the rate of children living in poverty in 2008 was 18 percent, indicating that 1
million more children were living in poverty in that year than in
2000.
- More teens in 2008 across all five of the largest racial
and ethnic groups were either in school or had obtained a high school diploma or
General Education Diploma compared with teens in
2000.
- Looking nationwide across all child well-being
indicators, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Vermont
rank highest, and Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi rank the lowest.
To access Annie E. Casey Foundation's Website and the
report, click here
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Corporate Voices and Working Mother to be Featured on the "Juggling Act" Radio Show
Tiffany Westover-Kernan, Corporate Voices' Vice President, Business Development and Government Relations and Carol Evans, President, Working Mother Media will be interviewed on the Juggling Act radio show next week as part of a feature on the 2010 Best of Congress Awards.
The show, which airs August 17th at 9:00 am, can be streamed from the following Website: http://www.wgch.com/
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