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Statement Today the U.S. House of Representatives took an important first step toward ensuring paid family leave for all workers in our country by passing the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act.   Everyone needs paid family and medical leave and it’s past time to start putting this policy in place. We know that paid family leave helps provide children with a healthy start and keep families out of poverty, yet the United States lags behind every developed country in the world in offering paid leave to new mothers.  

News release Ten DC-area moms sporting “Magnificently Overqualified Mother” banners, some of them accompanied by their kids, were up on Capitol Hill today to send a message to Senator John McCain about his opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. That message came in the form of some 9,000 resumes from mothers across the country underscoring women’s skills, training and education, and it was crystal clear: “women are well-trained, educated and qualified and should be paid the same as men for doing the same work.”  

News release ADVISORY: Tuesday June 10th, 11:30 AM, Capitol Building, South Steps For more information, contact:Joe Dinkin 860-523-1699 or 978-223-5868 (cell) or jdinkin@workingfamiliesparty.org Who: Representative Joe Aresimowicz, Representative Kevin Ryan and other legislators, along with Members of Working Families, Momsrising.org, ACORN, labor unions, public health advocates and other members of the Everybodybenefits.org coalition in support of the Paid Sick Days bill (SB 217).

News release MomsRising.org, the grassroots and on-the-ground online organization for moms (and anyone who has a mom), today applauded New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine for making New Jersey the third state in the nation to adopt paid family leave. New Jersey MomsRising.org members lobbied, testified before Assembly and Senate committees, and made hundreds of phone calls, as well as sent tens of thousands of letters to legislators.