Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Originally published at MomsRising.org. When I was in high school and college, I worked in restaurants. I worked for minimum wage and I worked hard – cleaning, cooking, even counting money and making bank deposits. I remember my pay going from 3.35 an hour to 3.45 an hour when […]
Jenya Cassidy is the Director of the California Work & Family Coalition, a project of Next Generation. For more information about Paid Family Leave in California, go to www.paidfamilyleave.org.