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First Lady Michele Obama Will Advocate for Working Families

This is reflected in her appointment as her Policy Director Harvard Law School Classmate Jocelyn Frye, who for the past 15 years has been general counsel for the National Partnership for Women and Families, one of the nation’s oldest advocacy groups for working women. She will reinforce Ms. Obama’s stated plans to emphasize work-life issues and aid for military families and will be a spokesperson for low- and middle-income families. The Partnership’s proposed agenda for the new administration is posted on its website: www.nationalpartnership.org and calls for guaranteeing employees of companies with 15 or more workers access to seven paid sick days a year and for federal incentives for states to set up paid family-leave insurance plans.