Jenya Cassidy, with the Labor Project for Working Families, sends us this cross-post from MomsRising.
When my son was almost 10, I found out I was pregnant with twin girls. I was excited but a little intimidated. I remembered one newborn being a lot of work--what would two be like? I mentally prepared for double the amount of diaper changes, laundry, bottles and child care costs. But what didn't occur to me until after my return to work was how going from one child to three more than tripled my chances of needing to call in sick.
Big Wall Street banks wrecked the American economy and killed American jobs—then took $700 billion in taxpayer bailouts. We are 11 million jobs in the hole—and it's time for Wall Street to help pay to create them.
The 2010 AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch highlights six Wall Street corporations using taxpayer money for big bonuses and lobbying and updates info on CEO pay data.
