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Statement

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director, MomsRising.org on Congress’ Passage of President Obama’s Budget

April 29, 2009

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

America’s families need support. Every day, moms and dads work hard to ensure that their children are safe and healthy. They struggle to make ends meet and to do the best they can at work and at home. The budget passed today by the U.S. Congress will help America’s families thrive, in part by expanding health care and increasing investments in education.
 
This budget also invests in efforts to ensure that moms don’t face the “mommy wage gap,” by increasing funding for the Justice Department to enforce discrimination laws. Even in the 21st Century, women are still earning just 78 cents for each dollar earned by men and single moms earn only 60 cents on the man’s dollar.
 
Congress and the Obama Administration are making an important investment in America’s families – one that will help us overcome the current economic challenges and also ensure a brighter future.
 

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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.