Statement “Today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing is an important moment in the fight to win the kind of comprehensive paid family and medical leave program the country urgently needs. This issue has languished in Congress for much too long, and we commend Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) for holding this hearing and recognizing that paid family and medical leave is urgently needed, proven to work for employees and employers, and tremendously popular.
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October 25, 2023
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October 17, 2023
Statement “The SAFE Children Act, which Governor Newsom signed on Friday, is a groundbreaking advance for youth justice and safety. We are thrilled that California has become the first state to end the practice of transferring children into the adult criminal justice system for violent offenses committed against the child’s trafficker or abuser.
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October 11, 2023
Media advisory On Thursday, October 12, at 5:30 PM ET, members of Congress will join more than 30 MomsRising members from around the country who have struggled to access quality, affordable child care for a photo on the steps of the U.S. Capitol (House side). The moms will hold signs calling on Congress to invest in child care as well as storybooks containing real-life examples of how the child care crisis harms kids, families, businesses and our economy.
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October 4, 2023
Statement “The wage gap that Latinas in this country experience is painful and punitive and it’s causing grave, lasting harm to Latina workers, moms, and families, and to our nation’s economy. It is a national disgrace that Latinas – those employed full- and part-time, working year-round and part-year – are paid a mere 52 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men in this nation; and that Latina moms are paid just 40 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic dads.
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October 2, 2023
Statement “Education is the cornerstone of our multi-racial democracy and America’s moms have been horrified as rightwing forces have turned our schools and libraries into battlegrounds with baseless attacks on the teaching of honest history – including slavery and the Holocaust, appalling distortions of Critical Race Theory, vicious attacks on LGBTQIA+ students and educators, and a shameful increase in book bans.
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Education Fund
September 26, 2023
Statement “America’s moms have been watching with concern that’s turned into full-scale alarm as Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have sent the country careening toward a government shutdown that will cause massive hardship, chaos, and economic pain. Moms are horrified that House Republicans have utterly failed to do their most basic duty by passing a budget for Fiscal Year 2024, which begins this weekend.
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September 21, 2023
Statement “The administration acted wisely, sensibly, and with compassion by extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to some 400,000 additional Venezuelan migrants living in the United States. These parents and children cannot safely return to Venezuela, and they want and need the opportunity to remain here safely and legally and to continue supporting their families and contributing to our economy and society.
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Education Fund
September 14, 2023
Statement “When Federal District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled against DACA in Texas v. United States last night, he once again intensified the chaos and hardship facing some 600,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, jeopardizing their ability to live and work in the only place most have ever called home. While we are grateful that the DACA program remains in place for now, last night’s ruling makes it even more urgent that Congress finally do its job by passing permanent protections for Dreamers.
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September 12, 2023
Statement “Policy matters. When Republicans in Congress blocked measures that would have continued the expanded Child Tax Credit, they stopped people from being able to afford child care and other essentials that make it possible for them to work and care for their families. This had dramatically harmful repercussions, including a punishing, painful spike in child poverty – and poverty overall – that the country is experiencing, which hurts our nation’s businesses and its economy.
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September 8, 2023
Statement “From Dionne Warwick to Meryl Streep to Oprah to Madonna, mature women are busting stereotypes and showing the world what they can do. So, too, are America’s grandmothers, who step up for their families every single day. That’s why, this Grandparents Day, MomsRising salutes the millions of grandmothers who are helping their families with child care, mortgage and student loan payments, and other necessities in a country that has failed to create the kind of care infrastructure we all need.
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MomsRising
Education Fund