Statement “Our state legislature took vitally important steps this week to make our workplaces more family friendly and fair by passing a bill to expand pregnancy and postpartum workplace accommodations to all employers, regardless of their size, and another that closes a loophole in the state's Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) program that put workers who took paid leave at risk of losing their jobs. Enactment of both these bills would support moms, families, businesses and our state’s economy, and Gov. Ferguson should waste no time in signing them into law.
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April 18, 2025
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April 15, 2025
Media advisory MomsRising has experts available to discuss our country’s maternal health crisis during Black Maternal Health Week this week, including Tina Sherman, our National Director for Maternal Justice who is a North Carolina-based doula; and Monifa Bandele, our Senior Vice President, a maternal health expert whose Texas-based grandmother was once denied maternal health care because of her race.
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April 13, 2025
Statement “We were dumbfounded, horrified, and enraged by the report that the Trump administration is considering defunding Head Start in its FY2026 budget proposal.
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April 10, 2025
Statement “Every U.S. Representative who voted to pass the SAVE Act today chose voter suppression over our democracy. The Republican unity on this bill is a disgrace and a betrayal of our core values as a nation. The U.S. Senate must reject it.
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April 8, 2025
Media advisory Join tax fairness advocates and constituents from across the country at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday April 10 in Washington, D.C., to stand against taking away services working people depend on—from health care like Medicaid, to public education, food assistance, care for children, seniors, and the disabled, housing, and more—in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
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April 7, 2025
Statement “As President Trump’s latest tariffs promise to drive prices even higher, today is a painful reminder that Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women must cope with the devastating impacts of his trade war while also facing discriminatory pay practices. Overall, AANHPI women are paid an unacceptable 83 cents for every dollar paid to White men. But averaging across such a wide range of identities is dangerously misleading, and obscures the reality that many AANHPI subgroups face much more painful wage gaps.
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March 27, 2025
Statement “America’s moms are alarmed and outraged that the Trump administration is making devastating cuts to staff, grants, and programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which runs numerous agencies that are vitally important to our health and wellbeing. Nothing matters more to America’s moms than a government that ensures our food is safe and provides health information we can trust, care we can count on, medications we can afford, and coverage that meets all our needs.
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On Equal Pay Day 2025, Moms Fear the Punitive, Appalling Wage Gap Will Get Even Worse Than It Is Now
March 25, 2025
Statement “83 cents. That is how much America’s full-time, year-round women workers are paid for each dollar paid to men, according to 2023 Census data. The wage gap widens to an even more appalling 75 cents when you consider all earners, including full-time, part-time, and part-year workers. And for the first time in 21 years, the gender-based wage gap actually grew in 2024.
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March 20, 2025
Statement “It was frankly stomach-churning this afternoon to see President Trump and his Republican cronies celebrating an Executive Order that will cause grave and irreparable harm to our children. There is nothing to celebrate about an Order that guts the education system we rely on to prepare them to contribute to our economy and our society. Today’s Executive Order will undermine the success of our students and the viability of our workforce, now and for years to come.
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March 18, 2025
Statement “As a Japanese American whose grandfather and his immediate family were incarcerated for two years without cause during WWII, seeing President Trump invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport immigrants now is deeply, terribly painful. It is a cruel, unnecessary assault on our fundamental freedoms to deport people to prisons in El Salvador without providing any due process.
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