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Paid Sick Days

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Time for Paid Leave for All!

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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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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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: July 24, 2020

07/23/20
Happy Friday. As summer starts to wind down, parents everywhere are struggling with questions around what the fall will look like. We know it’s tough. We also know that in order for parents to truly be able to “get back to work” we need the supports to do so, including childcare and early learning...
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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: July 10, 2020

07/10/20
Greetings. Summer is here. It’s hot. And the drumbeat of urgent actions in need of your support continues. This week’s list of top actions demanding justice for Vanessa Guillen, demanding immigrant children being held in ICE Family Detention Centers are released by the July 17 deadline, and urging...
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MomsRising COVID-19 Urgent Relief Priorities

07/02/20
All policies addressing this pandemic should center the growing racial disparity in COVID-19 morbidity throughout each issue area. Shocking new data has emerged that show African Americans, Latinx, and Native American people are dying at rates markedly higher than white Americans. Our elected leaders must develop and implement health equity interventions across all components of coronavirus response legislation, collect national health outcomes data by race, and ensure that all new policies urgently address these racial and ethnic disparities.
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SIGN OUR LETTER calling on the Senate to do more for the unemployed!

05/28/20
It would be great if President Trump could snap his figures and end the COVID-19 health and economic crisis on July 31st, but so far, his magical thinking doesn’t seem to be doing the trick. Arbitrary dates are exactly that: arbitrary. And some of the improvements Congress passed to Unemployment...
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Paid Leave for All. Now.

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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

NJ Thank-You Card! #PaidSickDays

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7204/?source=action">NJ Thank-You Card! #PaidSickDays</a>

It is truly a new day in New Jersey, and in a few short months New Jersey will be a more just and fair place to live and work.

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Sign our Thank-You Card for NJ Legislators that passed #PaidSickDays!

#GivingTuesdayNow: Support MomsRising’s fight for COVID-19 relief

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/donate/GivingTuesdayNow_MomsRising/?source=action">#GivingTuesdayNow: Support MomsRising’s fight for COVID-19 relief</a>

Today is #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of giving and unity in response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. Please donate to MomsRising and support our work centering the needs of mothers and families in every relief package.

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#GivingTuesdayNow: Support MomsRising’s fight for COVID-19 relief for mothers and families

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