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Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Realistic & Fair Wages

March 19, 2019

To mark Equal Pay Day and spread awareness about the punitive gender wage gap and possible solutions, like paid family and medical leave, MomsRising and Main Street Alliance created custom coffee sleeves and napkins for coffee shops across the nation to use on April 2nd.

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Sara Alcid

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Family Economic Security Food! Immigration Paid Family Leave

March 15, 2019

VICTORY! EVEN MORE good news in the work to stop private prison financing! Thanks to your work, signing and delivering petitions, showing up at your local Wells Fargo (and Chase) bank branches to ask about their decision to finance private prisons that detain immigrant families, we have made...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Take action!

MomsRising Paid Family Leave

March 11, 2019

I can barely contain my excitement! Last Thursday, the CO FAMLI Act (Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act) was introduced in the Colorado State Senate as SB19-188. After 5 years of this bill being introduced and discussed, this could FINALLY be the year it passes! But we can’t take anything for...

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Erin Bennett Leighton

Paid Family Leave

March 8, 2019

A few weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of my two-year-old wailing. She was afraid and uncomfortable, having vomited in her bed and woken herself up. She reached for me, her sweet face looking pitiful and streaked with tears. As soon as she was bathed and comforted and...

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Alexa Bigwarfe

Equal Pay Now!

MomsRising Paid Family Leave Realistic & Fair Wages

March 4, 2019

As the former Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum , current board member of MomsRising, and most importantly, being a mom to two incredible daughters myself, fighting for equitable treatment of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and girls is my lifelong...

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Miriam Yeung

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

March 1, 2019

From attending the State of the Union address to speaking at the re-introduction of the FAMILY Act to testifying before Congress on the Paycheck Fairness Act, February has been full of MomsRising power! And not only at the federal level — moms are making the difference for economic justice...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Good news!

Gun Safety MomsRising Paid Family Leave

March 1, 2019

Ever feel overwhelmed by your inbox, news feeds, podcast subscriptions? We're here to help! Swing by the MomsRising blog for this weekly round-up post to highlight the good news and current actions you may want to know about but might have missed. You don't have to be a policy expert or glued to...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

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Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave

February 27, 2019

During the recent Polar Vortex of 2019, I loaded myself and my son Vinny into the Resistance Mobile (my terrible minivan bedecked with political and justice related stickers) and for the first time in my life drove to the State House in Concord, New Hampshire to rally and testify in support of...

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Marcella Termini

Childcare & Early Education Paid Family Leave Podcast Realistic & Fair Wages

February 25, 2019

We have an all new #Radioshow out this week where we cover the power of YOU! How YOU can help get the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passed through Congress; tips for doing big things; how access to early learning & childcare is finally catching fire (thank goodness!); and how you can help...

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Amber Dorsey

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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Podcast

February 19, 2019

We have a brand new radio show this week in which we cover how to help stop the fake national emergency; why (and how) we need to address the childcare and Pre-K crisis in our nation; how you can help one fair wage move forward so tipped workers aren’t stuck earning only $2.13 per hour; and we'll...

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