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Corporate Voices and Working Mother to Honor "Best of Congress" at Special Awards Breakfast September 22 Corporate Voices and Working Mother Media are set to honor the 2010 Best of Congress Award winners at a special breakfast on Wednesday, September 22 at Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington D.C. The awards breakfast
will recognize the thirty recipients of the second-ever Best of Congress award
for improving the lives of working
families. The award spotlights
Congressional
excellence in supporting working families through legislation, advocacy, and by practicing
what they preach - employing family-friendly policies in their own offices.
We are please to announce that the following members of Congress will be in attendance (as of 9/17/10): - Sen. Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
- Sen.
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Sen.
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
- Rep.
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Rep.
Russ Carnahan (D-MO)
- Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
- Rep.
Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
- Rep.
John Lewis (D-GA)
- Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
- Rep.
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
- Rep.
Erik Paulsen (R-MN)
- Rep.
Dave Reichert (R-WA)
- Rep.
C.A.
"Dutch" Ruppersberger (D-MD)
- Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA)
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
- Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
- Rep.
John Yarmuth (D-KY)
For a complete listing and to read profiles of the 2010 Best of Congress Award winners in Working Mother Magazine, click here.
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Workplace Flexibility: Ensuring
Success for the 21st Century
Springboard Consulting, LLC and Summa Associates
Become Business Champions in National Campaign
 Corporate Voices would
like to congratulate Springboard Consulting,
LLC and Summa Associates
for joining our national workplace flexibility campaign since our last update,
and for committing their support for Corporate Voices' Statement of Support for Expanding Workplace
Flexibility.
They join a growing number of businesses that have signed our Statement of Support to recognize the value that workplace flexibility holds for
the success of businesses and families. Recent Business Champions include:
Accenture, Allstate Insurance Company, AOL, Baxter International, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Childrens' Creative Learning Centers,
Cisco Systems, Ernst & Young, George Mason University, Knowledge Universe, KPMG, LifeCare, Marriott International, McGladreySM, Merck & Co., Sodexo, and Workplace Options, among others. For a full
list of Business Champions, see: www.corporatevoices.org/our-work/flexcampaign
Business
Champions recognize that flexibility practices modernize the workplace, so that families and businesses can be
more productive, more competitive, healthier, and happier. As our nation's workforce continues to struggle in
a jobless recovery,
innovative business solutions like flexibility enable workers to better manage
the dual demands of work and family.
We welcome the diversity
of businesses represented in this campaign. From small software
start-ups and work-life consultancies to global healthcare and services
conglomerates, our expanding list of Business Champions illustrates how
flexibility can support excellence across industries of all sizes.
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.
We are working in tandem
with policy groups and the Women's Bureau to plan national and regional
awareness-raising forums for flexibility across the country. Corporate Voices
and its Partner Coalition will work to galvanize business engagement around
these flexibility forums throughout the year in Dallas, Los Angeles,
Chicago, and New
York. All Business Champions that have signed
our Statement will be invited.
We applaud the efforts of our Business
Champions and Partners in spreading the word about this important work-life
initiative. To see recent examples of media coverage and promotional activities,
as well as a complete list of Business Champions and campaign updates, please
visit: www.corporatevoices.org/our-work/flexcampaign. |
You're
Invited: Business and Education Partnerships Webinar, October 7, 2010 at 2p.m.
EST (duration: 1 hour)
 Business leaders and
educators must create meaningful, successful, and long lasting partnerships to
ensure that all youth are ready for college, work and life. Collaboration
between business and education can ensure that students graduate high school
equipped with the skills necessary to thrive in the workplace, post-secondary
education and life.
The American Association for School Administrators, Corporate Voices, and members of the Ready by 21 National
Partnership will highlight the benefits of these partnerships and provide tips
for engaging educators and business leaders. Baxter Healthcare, a Corporate
Voices Member Company, will provide an overview of their partnership with
Chicago Public Schools through the Science@Work Program.
Business and education
representatives are encouraged to participate. To register for the webinar,
please click here.
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Working Mother Announces 2010 Best Companies
 Working Mother Media recently released its list of 100 Best Companies. The new class of Working Mother 100 Best Companies sets the bar higher than ever before, each one offering a menu of benefits including formal and informal flexibility-with flextime, telecommuting and temporary part-time work options, to name only a few.
This year's list features many of Corporate Voices' member companies. All of our members are committed to improving the lives of working families, and we congratulate those being recognized as one of the 100 Best Companies.
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One in Seven Americans
In sobering but largely unsurprising news yesterday, the
U.S. Census Bureau reported that 43.6 million Americans-some 1 in 7 U.S.
residents-lived below the poverty line in 2009. The poverty rate of 14.3 percent is the highest in 15 years, up a full
percentage point from just one year earlier. But the number of
people in poverty in 2009 is the largest
in the 51 years for which poverty estimates are available.
The Bureau reported that the increase was steepest for
children, almost 21 percent of whom were officially poor. Across the political spectrum, experts agreed
that poverty increases resulting from the recession would have been even worse
were it not for temporary increases in government aid and 'stimulus' spending.
In related news, the number of people without health
insurance coverage rose from 46.3 million in 2008 to 50.7 million in 2009,
although that number is projected to decline as last year's national
health insurance overhaul begins to take effect.
For detailed estimates from the census and some of the most
enlightening analysis of the numbers, we suggest the following links:
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb10-144.html
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf
http://www.brookings.edu/topics/u-s-poverty.aspx
http://www.cbpp.org/
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What We're Reading
What Makes School Great, Time, September 8, 2010.
Labor Secretary: 'There are jobs out there', USA Today, September 3, 2010.
Talent Pressures and the Aging Workforce, The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, 2010.
Employers Favor State Schools for Hires, The Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2010.
Back to School: The 21st Century Classroom, Media Planet, August 2010.
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