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March 25, 2015
Statement “Today, the Paycheck Fairness Act was introduced once again in the House and Senate by Representative Rosa DeLauro and Senator Barbara Mikulski. While we praise these champions for their perseverance in pressing for this crucial bill, the moms of America are deply disappointed that this long overdue bill still is not the law of the land.  
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March 18, 2015
Statement “More than two decades ago, Congress passed and the President signed into law, a groundbreaking bill that guaranteed most workers unpaid leave to attend to the arrival of a new child or to a family member’s medical needs. It was an important breakthrough, but it was only a first step. Today, we need paid maternity and paternity leave and paid leave for medical needs. Leave that would be guaranteed by the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act), introduced today by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Rosa DeLauro.  
March 10, 2015
Statement After years of pressuring fast food giants to stop marketing sugary sodas to children - Burger King has announced that it will be removing all soda pop products as a default option from their kids menus, effective immediately. MomsRising.org, joined by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has been urging the chain to improve the nutritional quality of its kids' meals by removing soda from the kids menu.  
February 18, 2015
News release ANNAPOLIS – MomsRising members and their children, representing one of the more than 130 organizations behind the Maryland Campaign for Paid Sick Days, will be in Annapolis on Wednesday, Feb. 18 to deliver toy rocket ships and storybooks in support of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act (SB 40/HB 385). Participants from across the state will remind policymakers that access to paid sick days boosts our families and the economy.  
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February 12, 2015
Statement “On behalf of our more than one million MomsRising members across the country, I applaud U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro and U.S. Senator Patty Murray for re-introducing the Healthy Families Act (HFA) today.   
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January 31, 2015
News release OLYMPIA – On Monday, Feb. 2, over 20 high school students from the Redmond-area and Seattle will travel to Olympia, Washington to meet with legislators, sign-in in favor of and testify at a hearing in support for the Equal Opportunity Act and learn about the legislative process.  
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January 28, 2015
Statement Last night, Tacoma made history as the very first jurisdiction in the nation to pass a paid sick days ordinance in 2015. The ordinance passed by a vote of 8-1. The final ordinance improved on Mayor Strickland's original paid sick days proposal by covering all workers, including those in labor unions. The 40,000 members of MomsRising in Washington state and the over one million members nationwide who have been working hard to advance paid sick days, mark this moment as a step forward.  
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January 20, 2015
Statement "Tonight, the President clearly articulated what mothers across the nation experience every day: Our families, our children, and our economy are being hurt by the fact that we as a nation have yet to update our antiquated workplace and family economic security policies, including those relating to childcare, earned sick days, paid family (maternity/paternity) leave, fair pay, taxes, and healthcare access.   
January 16, 2015
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January 15, 2015
Statement “Today, President Obama took a tremendous step forward to update the antiquated policies that are hurting our economy, women, moms and working families all over America.  
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