Corporate Execs should try bake sales and parents should earn a living wage.
Blue Cross CEO got $8.6 m in exit deal (quoted from the font page Boston Globe 3/2/2011). He bargained for our tax dollars that subsidize health costs through Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.
Yet the Republicans in Wisconsin want to refuse the right of Union workers, many of whom are parents, to bargain for a living wage so that they may support their children. Should we put them into the ever-expanding stream of people who are turning to the government for help to pay for special needs resulting from learning disabilities, poor health care and poor nutrition.
Posted by Becky on 03/03/11 •
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UUs Standing on the Side of Love (Video)
Unitarian Universalist Minister Fred Small spoke on Saturday at the Boston State House about the moral and political reason why we need to stand with the Wisconsin Public Employees. Promise the Children believes that the Teachers and other public employees who deliver services to our children need to be valued and appreciated.
Posted by Sue Kirby on 02/26/11 •
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Public Education - Can We Pass the Test?
Since Promise the Children’s recent decision to take on the issue of public education as our #1 priority I have read and watched a plethora of books, articles and movies diagnosing the dilemma of the US public school system. Memories of my own experience as a mother of two; one a born academic who graduated with honors - the other an artistic soul who barely made it out of high school, come rushing back to further add more questions then answers about the best way to approach this issue of reforming the US school system.
Posted by Sue Kirby on 02/25/11 •
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