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TODAY: Iowa Moms Deliver Popcorn to 2016 Candidate Offices in Des Moines Urging Greater Focus on Policies that Boost Families, Kids, and our Economy

November 5, 2015
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Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

DES MOINES, IOWA --Today, a day after the Every Child Matters Education Fund and MomsRising.org released a letter calling on the 2016 presidential candidates to participate in a forum on child and family issues this year, Iowa moms, joined by MomsRising Executive Director, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, and Every Child Matters Iowa Director, Kelli Soyer, will stop by the Des Moines campaign offices of Dr. Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sec. Hillary Clinton to meet with campaign staffers and urge them to attend the forum, and speak to policies critical to America’s working families and economy.
  • At 9:30AM, members of MomsRising and the Every Child Matters Education Fund will meet with Dr. Ben Carson’s State Director Ryan Rhodes at Carson’s Urbandale offices located at 2633 86th Street.  
  • At 9:40AM, members of MomsRising and the Every Child Matters Education Fund will meet with Donald Trump’s Deputy State Director Ryan Keller at Trump’s Urbandale offices located at 3330 Westown Parkway, Suite 15 in West Des Moines.
  • At 11:00AM, members of MomsRising and the Every Child Matters Education Fund will meet with Sen. Bernie Sander’s State Director Robert Becker and Political Director Blair Lawton at Sanders’ Des Moines offices located at 3420 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
  • At 2:00PM, MomsRising and Every Child Matters Fund members will meet with Sec. Hillary Clinton’s State Director Matt Paul at the Hillary for America campaign offices, located at 611 Fifth Avenue in Des Moines.
 
At the meetings, MomsRising members will deliver famous Iowa popcorn to the candidates asking them to attend the New Hampshire forum on child, family, and economic security policies that boost businesses and our economy, which polls show are of the highest concern for working families in this year’s election. A poll from the First Five Years Fund found that an overwhelming majority of American workers want to see candidates address issues of family economic security and child development.
 
FOLLOW THE POPCORN DELIVERIES HERE: https://twitter.com/MomsRising
 
READ THE POLL HERE: http://ffyf.org/2015-poll/
 
 
For more information, or for interviews, please contact Gretchen Wright or Kim Hayes at 202-371-1999. 
 
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The Every Child Matters Education Fundis a 501(c) 3 non-profit, non-partisan organization whose goal in New Hampshire and nationwide is to make children and youth a top priority in presidential campaigns. We work with a wide assortment of children’s activists, leaders, media, academic and community organizations.
 

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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.