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MomsRising.org Asks North Carolina Legislators to Give Kids a Hand and Families “a Fair Shake” in State Budget Negotiations

June 29, 2009
Youth & Family Justice

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Moms and Kids to Deliver Handprint Tiles to Legislators Urging Family-Friendly Budget Solutions
MomsRising.org, the online and on-the-ground grassroots organization for moms and everyone who has a mom, will deliver hundreds of ceramic tiles with children’s handprints on them to state legislators urging them to “lend kids a hand” and preserve key children’s programs as they work to balance the budget at:
 
9:30 AM, Wednesday, July 1
North Carolina General Assembly
16 West Jones Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
 
Each tile will bear a note with a brief message from a North Carolina resident urging legislators to give kids and families a fair shake in their budget negotiations, by working to preserve programs like Smart Start and NC Health Choice, which ensure that young children get a healthy start in life. MomsRising.org, a nationwide organization that supports family-friendly policies, generated these messages through e-outreaches to its North Carolina audience.
 
MomsRising.org spokesperson Beth Messersmith will be on-site and available for comment.
 
Momrsrising.org is an online grassroots organization that is working for paid family leave, flexible work options, excellent child care and health care for all children, and to stop the wage and hiring biases that penalize so many mothers today. MomsRising.org has more than one million members across the United States.
 

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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.