February 8, 2007

Lessons on Empowering Low-Wage Workers

By Anne W. Howard

NEW BOOKS

Investing in Low-Wage Workers: Lessons from Family Child Care in Rhode Island, by Anne Roder and Dorie Seavey, studies the Day Care Justice Co-op, an advocacy organization for family day-care providers. Founded in 1999 and led by a multiracial group of low-income women, the organization fought to improve the income, benefits, visibility, and programs of state-contracted child-care providers working out of their homes. The group was

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