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Caring Across Generations acknowledges Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s $80.7 billion budget proposal for 2025 as a positive advancement for Michigan’s care infrastructure, while emphasizing the need for these proposals to manifest as tangible support for family caregivers, older adults, disabled people, and care workers.

For the second year in a row, The Webbys awarded Caring Across Generations for the advocacy organization’s leadership in bridging pop culture and political action.

The FMLA was an important first step forward, but it doesn’t go far enough in 2024.

Filmmakers, producers and other creatives who attended Sundance Film Festival have committed to more care-inclusive storytelling after attending a series of events spotlighting aging and disability care.

In honor of Rosalynn Carter's extraordinary contributions, we pledge to continue advocating for a future where care is accessible, dignified, and recognized as the essential service it is.

Advocates and experts from across the country urge lawmakers to prioritize care, especially child care funding, demanding that Congress swiftly pass President Biden's emergency aid request of $16 billion in child care funding.

Sen. Laphonza Butler, Neera Tanden, Dawn Lyen-Gardner, June Diane Raphael, Christy Turlington and Elaine Welteroth shared their personal care stories and called on Congress to invest in care workers and family caregivers during the final day of CareFest, a two-day in-person summit focused on the future of caregiving.

The first-ever Business Care Council was announced this week at Caring Across Generations’ CareFest, a multiday, in-person event focused on the future of caregiving. The Business Care Council is a group of more than 20 companies across industries, including technology, fashion and small businesses.

Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su announced the sample agreement at the inaugural CareFest Convention at the UCLA Luskin Center in Los Angeles, California. 

Senator Laphonza Butler will address the importance of caregivers and care workers as part of her keynote on November 3, 2023 as part of CareFest, a two-day in-person summit focused on the future of caregiving.

Caring Across Generations to Convene Cross-Sector Leaders, Make Care Defining Issue of 2024

As families and workers across the country face a worsening child care crisis, advocates and activists with Care Can’t Wait are doubling down on their demand that lawmakers prioritize child care funding.

Caring Across Generations responds to the first-ever Senate Finance Committee paid leave hearing.

Following President Biden's Emergency Aid Request of $16 billion in childcare funding to Congress, The Care Can’t Wait Coalition urges swift Congressional action to fund critical childcare services.  

Child care crisis threatens to destabilize families, slow economic growth, and jeopardize our workforce.

As Congress has continued to focus on power games, they are leaving behind millions of children and families by not acting on the child care cliff and failing to move the The Child Care Stabilization Act forward. 

In response to the government shutdown fight and the expiration of emergency child care benefits, Nicole Jorwic, chief of advocacy and campaigns at Caring Across Generations, released a statement.

The Care Can’t Wait Coalition applauds today’s introduction of the Child Care Stabilization Act and urges Congress to act immediately to protect the child care of more than three million children and keep 70,000 child care providers open with this $16 billion in emergency child care funding.

Proposed rule Section 504 change will ensure the rights of disabled people are protected and the value of disabled lives is clear.

In response to the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), issuing a proposed rule that seeks to establish comprehensive staffing requirements for nursing homes Nicole Jorwic, chief of advocacy and campaigns at Caring Across Generations, released the a statement.

One Year After Passing the IRA, Congress Continues to Ignore the Urgent Need to Invest in Care

Dozens of workers, caregivers, leaders and advocates from 14 organizations rallied in Los Angeles to call on California elected leaders to pass SB 616, which would require California employers to provide seven, rather than three, paid sick days per year.

In a crucial show of unity, workers, caregivers, leaders and advocates from 14 organizations will gather in Los Angeles for a rally to call on California elected leaders to pass SB 616, which would require California employers to provide seven, rather than three, paid sick days per year.

On Wednesday, June 28, the Michigan legislature passed their final FY 2024 state budget which decreased Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed $1.50 wage increase for direct care workers providing Medicaid home- and community-based services to only $0.85.

In response to the one year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision this week, Nicole Jorwic, Chief of Campaigns and Advocacy of Caring Across Generations, released a statement.