One year later... Where are we?

One year after Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot she has resigned her position:
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/01/22/3091298/giffords-announces-resignation

Where is our body politic one year later? Beleaguered by violent speech that tries to wrench us from the sense of shared responsibility that holds us together as a nation. Republican candidates use code upon code to detach us from one another and from the Constitutional values of “liberty and justice for all.”

Of course, I am thinking liberty and economic justice here… justice that makes equal opportunity real and within reach of everyone.

Check out this graphic that demonstrates the Rate of Return on Investment for companies that provide paid family leave for both parents, flexible scheduling and early care for children. The graph is from the Center for Partnership Studies (http:// http://www.partnershipway.org/) These companies practice rather than deny the web of relationships that make a society a great nation, that support family investments in human capacity building…. It takes a village to support a family to raise a child….