The White House recently hosted Summits on Working Families across the country, focusing on “how we can strengthen our nation’s workplaces to better support working families, boost businesses’ bottom lines, and ensure America’s global economic competitiveness in the coming decades.”
The June 23 summit in Washington brought hundreds of participants from labor and nonprofit organizations, businesses, elected officials and citizens who came together to talk about how to build a workforce and a workplace that meet the needs of today.
The Working Families Summit presented some facts on how our workforce has changed: “Just as the makeup of the typical American family has shifted, so has the dynamic of our workforce. Women, particularly mothers, have increasingly entered the workforce and now make up roughly half of all workers in the United States. Only 27 percent of mothers were breadwinners or co-breadwinners in American families in 1967. Fast forward to 2011, and nearly two-thirds of mothers are breadwinners or co-breadwinners.” READ MORE
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