kathleen christensen

Work-Life Balancing Act? Congress Says 'No' on Safety Net

Close your eyes and picture the typical home-and-work high-wire act. For most of us it looks like this: a harried mom of two (or one, or three) coming in the house, bags of groceries in both arms, throwing off a suit jacket, peeling kids off her shins, checking her BlackBerry, trying not to let the pasta water boil over, and promising the report will get finished just as soon as the kids are asleep, dammit. To complete many such pictures, there is often another acrobat in the picture: an equally overworked man also trying to balance it all. Fact: The number of dual-income households has ...

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