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Thirty-two major corporations employing 2.5 million in 50 states have created Corporate Voices for Working Families (www.cvworkingfamilies.org), a non-partisan corporate membership organization to inform public and private sector policy to support and strengthen American working families.

Corporate Voices members include Abbott Laboratories, Ceridian, CVS, Johnson and Johnson, Marriott International, Pfizer, Texas Instruments, and United Parcel Service.

(October 2, 2006) As the baby boom generation slowly exits the U.S. workplace, a new survey of leaders from a consortium of business research organizations finds the incoming generation sorely lacking in much needed workplace skills—both basic academic and more advanced “applied” skills, according to a report released today.

(May 16, 2006 – Washington, DC) Corporate Voices for Working Families today released the Corporate Voices After School White Paper that found the contributions of just eight American companies directly to local after school programs is more than 13 percent of the federal dollars that went directly to after school programs in 2005.  The eight companies invested $136.6 million in 2005 with more than $1 billion invested over the last five years.

WHAT: Corporate Voices for Working Families will release key research findings on America’s low-wage workers, those who make less than $11 per hour and have a family income of $40,000 or less,  entitled Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Low-Wage Work in America. 

The survey, conducted by Hart Research and Wirthlin Worldwide, covers three topic areas: 1) problem of low-wage work in today’s American economy; 2) the financial conditions and concerns of low-wage workers and their families; and 3) possible policy remedies.

(Washington, DC, September 3, 2004) - Corporate Voices for Working Families today released key findings from qualitative and quantitative research on America’s workers who make less than $11 per hour and have a family income of $40,000 or less.

(August 23,2004, Washington, DC)–– Corporate Voices for Working Families today unveiled the framework for building quality after school systems in the United States that all young people have access to.  Corporate Voices is calling on local, state and federal government entities, as well as private and non-profit sectors, to assess existing after school programs, consider philanthropic priorities, review policy proposals on 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and other programs, and formulate policy positions that provide more after school care to working families. 

BOSTON-- Mayor Thomas P. Menino, corporate leaders from throughout the state, foundation representatives, educational experts, and nonprofit organizations will participate in a "Town Hall Meeting on After School Care" on Thursday, November 21st between 8:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., at Gasson Hall, Boston College. The session will discuss the need for public-private initiatives to expand critical after school programs for the state's young children as a way of helping assure school readiness and helping crime prevention.