Family Economic Security

April 7, 2014

I understand the barriers women face to achieve success in male dominated professions. As one of too few women serving in the General Assembly in Pennsylvania, and the only women representing the Greater Pittsburgh area in the State House, I understand the pressure and the high expectations we put...

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Pennsylvania State Rep. Erin Molchany

April 7, 2014

As a member of the North Dakota Senate, it is my job to make sure that our laws reflect the values of the people in our great state. One thing I know for sure is that we value families. Yet I am distressed that this fundamental value is often not reflected in the way our state does business. For...

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North Dakota State Sen. Tim Mathern

Family Economic Security

April 7, 2014

In North Carolina the minimum wage isn’t enough to support an individual, let alone a family. Our minimum wage has remained stagnant at $7.25/hour for years, which is completely unacceptable when the majority of minimum wage earners are women, many of whom are supporting children during these...

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North Carolina State Rep. Susan Fisher

Family Economic Security

April 7, 2014

Michigan needs to raise the minimum wage. Not just because it's the right thing to do for the minimum wage workers in this state. It is important for everyone in the states and is the single most important thing that could be done to help our state recover from the worst economic recession in a...

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Michigan State Rep. Rashida Tlaib

Family Economic Security

April 7, 2014

Guaranteeing earned paid sick time for the people of Massachusetts is a priority that I've long fought for as a representative in the state legislature. As a mom with a background in nursing and interest in public health policy, it is also an issue that resonates with me personally. These are the...

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Massachusetts State Rep. Kay Khan

Family Economic Security

April 7, 2014

Americans have long seen education as a path to economic prosperity. As a Georgia State Senator and Leadership Chair of Progressive States Action’s Public Education Working Group, I work with fellow state legislators, families, educators, and advocates to battle education budget cuts year after...

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Georgia State Sen. Nan Orrock

Family Economic Security

April 7, 2014

I am proud that my home state of Connecticut made history last month when we enacted the highest state minimum wage in the country: $10.10 per hour. As $10.10 per hour is also the federal minimum wage proposed by the President and Democratic leaders in Congress, Connecticut is essentially leading...

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Connecticut State Senator Gary Holder-Winfield

Family Economic Security

April 7, 2014

As an Arizona state legislator, mother, and social worker, I see firsthand the barriers women face to success in my state and around the country. For decades I have worked with women who are marginalized by society and have few opportunities to get back on their feet. Victims of domestic violence...

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Arizona State Senator Katie Hobbs

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Family Economic Security

April 4, 2014

The idea to write a play about motherhood came to me when I was writing my last play, Flipside and nursing my second child. Actually, it had been gestating since the day I was nursing my first child and complaining to my HartBeat Co-Artistic Director Greg Tate that the intersecting struggles of...

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Julia B. Rosenblatt

Family Economic Security Families & The Federal Budget

April 3, 2014

On Tuesday we at the National Priorities Project released our fourth annual, one-of a kind Competing Visions analysis , which compares the president’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal to two significantly different visions – the House Republican budget resolution, introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, and...

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