America’s Working Women Struggling, Frustrated and Ready to Vote

[Omaha Steve]

Full article: http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/08/05/america%e2%80%99s-working-women-struggling-frustrated-and-ready-to-vote/

America’s Working Women Struggling, Frustrated and Ready to Vote

As we prepare for the release of the Ask a Working Woman survey findings on Monday, my co-workers and I have been reading through the responses to the question that asks: “What is the most important thing you think members of Congress need to understand about working women?”

We’re still compiling the results of the survey. (For that you’ll have to wait until Monday! In the meantime, if you haven’t taken the survey, please click here.) However, the personal experiences and insight shared in the open-ended question are so profound and heartfelt, I’m compelled to share a few of them with you now.

In a nutshell, working women across the country are balancing many responsibilities, struggling to make ends meet as the cost of living continues to rise and are looking to hold corporations and politicians accountable.

Louise from Worthington, Minn., writes:

Trying to balance my career and family life is next to impossible with good jobs being a 70-mile commute….My own family spends $400 per month on gasoline so I can work a job just to get health care.

Kristen from Cincinnati explains:

My husband has a hearing impairment, but not bad enough to be considered a disability. It’s been up to me to sustain us throughout our seven-year marriage. In March, I was told that I’m getting laid off. We’re moving to Canada. Screw this.

[ananda]

1. I just wanta know..

.. how many of them voted for Bush or the GOP?

I mean, a lot of people voted for Bush who shouldn't have.

But they did, and now they're paying for it.

[MichiganVote]

2. We're all paying for it. Literally and figuratively.

And I don't care anymore if they voted for Bush or any other republican. What I want to see in this country is quality of life for ALL citizens, not just the wealthy or the wives of the wealthy, may of whom haven't done an honest days work in decades.

We are living substandard, over mortgaged lives in the US and I'm sick to death of it. It didn't used to be this way and doesn't have to continue this way. All this globalization has netted nothing for women and their children.

[rodeodance]

3. Nom. and pass this on.

[orwell]

4. It's good to know...

...that inflation is "under control..."