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MomsRising to Congress: Read Up on Why Families Need Paid Sick Days

July 27, 2010
Paid Sick Days

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Moms and Kids to Deliver Collection of Stories from Parents in Every State
MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground grassroots organization for moms and everyone who has a mom, will deliver a “summer reading assignment” to members of Congress to educate them about the need for paid sick days. Moms and kids will deliver a collection of stories from parents in every state across the country who need paid sick days, along with hand sanitizer, after meeting at:
 
11:00 AM, Wednesday, July 28
Rayburn House Office Building
Independence Avenue Entrance
Washington, D.C.
 
The book, Even Super Moms Can’t Fight All Germs! We Need Paid Sick Days, shares the moving personal stories of parents who need paid sick days to care for children and other loved ones. They come from front lines of motherhood from every state in the nation, and speak of the impossible choices, struggles, and the sometimes improbable triumphs of mothers and fathers to care for their children and other loved ones.
 
More than 50 million employees – almost 40 percent of workers in the United States – are not allowed by their employers to earn paid sick days. MomsRising, a nationwide organization that supports family-friendly policies, generated the stories in the book through a series of nationwide e-outreaches to its members.
 

MEDIA NOTE: MomsRising Campaign Director Donna Norton will be on-site and available for comment.

 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.