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Paid Sick Days

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Omicron is Raging, Families Need Support - Tell the U.S. Senate Families Need them to ACT

Paid sick days are a matter of economic security. No mother should have to choose between her job and taking care of a sick child. We are working to make earned paid sick days a right for all. 

Can you believe it? Nearly one in three private-sector workers – and 70% of low wage workers cannot earn a single paid sick day.
This means that people are often forced to choose between working sick and losing pay - or even their jobs. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends staying home when we’re sick with common illnesses like the flu, and keeping sick children out of school. Workers without paid sick days don’t have that option, and we all risk getting sick.
 
Over 145 other countries have paid sick leave. Moms are working to put the US on the map. We've had major wins in New York City, Connecticut, Portland, Seattle and San Francisco and we won't stop until everyone has the ability to earn paid sick days!
 
Read MomsRising supporters' personal stories on paid sick days:
As a full-time public school teacher and single mother, I am grateful for my paid sick days. But day after day, I see my own students struggle through a school day when they should be home in bed sick, not at a school desk, but their parents must be at work, because they don’t have paid sick days...Read more
Kim, Missoula, MT

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What if It Never Gets Easier to Be a Working Parent?

12/20/21
"It has been right back to the juggling act that I felt before the pandemic." - Jennifer Simpkins
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NEW sticky note deadline is December 24

12/16/21
More than 2,000 moms and family members across the country have already signed up to do this action, and we are extending the deadline to December 24 timed to the state of play in Congress. Our wave of sticky notes from moms, caregivers, and family members on Senate office doors across the country needs to keep growing over the next critical week to help keep this legislation moving!
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I Met With Chairwoman Cecilia Rouse to Talk About Paid Leave

12/13/21
It was exhausting to care for my grandkids and my mom at the same time. Because our country doesn’t have a care infrastructure, everything has fallen on my shoulders. Right now, I’m juggling providing afterschool care with making sure my mother-in-law, who lives in an assisted living facility, is well taken care of and has everything she needs. There’s no way I can return to the workforce.
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget

There’s No Time to Wait

12/03/21
We need paid family/medical leave in the Build Back Better Act. There are only 6 days left in the Congressional calendar before the Senate leaves town for the year. They must get this done now.
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Dear Congress: "The system is broken and it needs to be fixed." A Care Economy Storybook

08/19/21
It's not enough to go back to where we were. We need to build back better. In our Care Economy Storybook 2021, MomsRising has captured powerful and moving stories from families across the nation about how hard it is to give care, making the case that it doesn't have to be this way.
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Moms Are Parenting the Workforce!?

10/29/20
In her latest blog post, Capacity Building Manager Marianne Bullock reflects on a new, precarious reality. "It's not that women are falling off the cliff," she shares, "but that we are being pushed off and out of the workforce by a lack of policies that support the on-the-ground reality of the burden of care for our children's wellbeing."
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TELL YOUR U.S. SENATORS: In the face of Omicron, families need the CTC, Paid Leave, and Child Care – Pass BBB NOW!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/21914/?source=action">TELL YOUR U.S. SENATORS: In the face of Omicron, families need the CTC, Paid Leave, and Child Care – Pass BBB NOW!</a>

Just as families need support the most, monthly Child Tax Credit payments ended in December because Joe Manchin and the Republican Senators refused to pass Build Back Better. With Omicron raging, it's more important than ever to pass BBB to make child care and elder care affordable, guarantee paid family and medical leave, lower the cost of insulin and other prescription drugs, make healthcare more affordable, and more.

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Omicron is Raging, Families Need Support - Tell the U.S. Senate Families Need them to ACT

Tell Congress: Pass Build Back Better NOW!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/20809/?source=action">Tell Congress: Pass Build Back Better NOW!</a>

The historic, much-needed investments in the Build Back Better package, including paid family / medical leave, childcare, home- and community-based services, the Child Tax Credit, addressing equity in maternal health, healthcare, and immigration reform, will be transformative for moms, women, and families.

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Tell Congress: Pass Build Back Better NOW!

Paid Leave for All. Now.

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/16986/?source=action">Paid Leave for All. Now. </a>

Paid leave is the key to our long-term health, stability, and prosperity. Paid leave saves jobs. Paid leave saves lives. We can and we must pass it now.

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Time for Paid Leave for All!

URGENT! Support NC kincare and safe days, allowing workers to use their sick days when they need them

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/17076/?source=action">URGENT! Support NC kincare and safe days, allowing workers to use their sick days when they need them</a>

We need your help! A NC bill has been introduced that would guarantee employees the right to use their sick days (whether paid or job-protected, unpaid) to care for a sick loved one, seek preventative care, or deal with the physical, mental, or legal impacts of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The KinCare and Safe Days Act (H875) would be game-changing for so many families, but in order for it to keep moving forward it has to pass out of the NC House this week. Can you send a quick email to your representative right now letting them know it’s critical that they pass Kincare and Safe Days? They need to hear from you!

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URGENT! Support NC kincare and safe days, allowing workers to use their sick days when they need them

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