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Jane Fonda Comes to Capitol Hill to Press for Rights for Women in the Working Class

07/13/2018 | Ted Johnson | Variety

In a basement meeting room of the Capitol Visitor Center, there also was a lot of media interest: Jane Fonda, the star of Netflix’s “Frankie & Johnnie” and the longtime political activist, was pressing lawmakers to expand protections for women domestic workers and farmworkers.

Tags: Bill of Rights

Connections Q&A: What Private Sector Innovations Are Most Needed?

05/18/2018 | Stria Staff | Stria News

Stria’s “Connections Q&A” series gathers perspectives from across the field on a single topic. Here, we asked Ai-Jen Poo of Caring Across Generations, Jennie Smith-Peers of NCCA, Stephen Johnston of Aging 2.0, Bob Kramer of NIC, and Gretchen Alkema of The SCAN Foundation to share their thoughts on how the private sector can best serve our aging society.

Tags: Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations

Report: Black women are working hard but ‘our country is not working for them’

06/08/2017 | Vanessa Williams | Washington Post

A new report about the nation’s black women paints a familiar portrait of a group that is working hard on many levels to achieve the American Dream but is still falling short.

Tags: SOBW, We Dream in Black