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Business Resources
Workforce Management, www.workforce.com
Workforce Management is an online newsletter/website from the publishers of Workforce Management. The website includes a wide range of articles on human resources including many related to the challenges of child care, family friendly work policies and other work/life issues.
The Families and Work Institute, www.familiesandwork.or
The Families and Work Institute is a nonprofit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. Founded in 1989, FWI's research typically takes on emerging issues before they crest.
Labor Project for Working Families, www.laborproject.org
This site provides resources to support unions and employers in developing family policies in the workplace including family leave, flexible work schedules, child care, sick time and more. This is a project of the Institute of Industrial Relations at UC Berkeley.
Economic Opportunity Institute, www.eoionline.org
The Economic Opportunity Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, public policy institute, started in 1998, to define the policy debate on the issue of economic security. The organization focuses on several work/family life issues including early learning and care, health, family leave, minimum wage and others.
Study links quality child care, employee productivity
www.businessrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=9&ArticleID=1899
This recent article (May 2005) summarizes an economic impact study conducted by the Iowa Business Council.
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