Evelyn Coke
“I met Secretary Solis several months ago and we talked about Evelyn Coke. ‘That’s just the kind of worker I want the Department of Labor to speak for,’ she told me,” writes Ellen Bravo in a tribute to Coke published by The Women’s Media Center on August 14.
Writing about Coke’s life and Supreme Court case after Coke’s death, Bravo calls on women’s groups and others to “honor Evelyn Coke posthumously as she should have been honored every day in her work.
“Justice for the Evelyn Cokes of this world will have a price tag,” Bravo acknowledges. “But the cost of injustice—poverty for full-time caregivers in one of the fastest growing fields of employment and one with a large turnover—is much higher.”
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