Paid Family Leave

January 29, 2009

Today I had the enormous privilege of representing you, and all of MomsRising, at the White House to watch President Obama sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. As you know, MomsRising members played a major role in getting this Act passed with their over 150,000 supporting contacts to Congress.

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Paid Family Leave

December 2, 2008

In case you missed it, the New York Times ran a feature about men who care for their elderly parents. Nearly 40 percent of men are their family's primary care provider up from 19 percent in 1996, according to the Alzheimer's Association.

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Elisa Batista

Paid Family Leave

October 20, 2008

As the mother of a daughter, there are things I want for my eight-year-old especially when she becomes a woman -- things that I was lucky to have, but that generations before me didn't. Interestingly, John McCain, as the father of daughters, doesn't seem to want those same things.

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Joanne Bamberger

Paid Family Leave

July 31, 2008

I regret to inform you that you're a victim of your own success: As a result of mothers across the country expressing their outrage at wage discrimination, we have not one, but two (yes, two!) major pieces of legislation moving in Congress to protect women and people of color from discrimination in the workplace.

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Nanette Fondas

Paid Family Leave

June 24, 2008

When it was time to travel to China to bring home our little PunditBaby , I was working at a large government agency in a pretty senior position.

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Joanne Bamberger

Paid Family Leave

June 19, 2008

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives got us one step closer to paid family leave for every working family in the country.

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Rachna Choudhry

Paid Family Leave

June 10, 2008

The moment my now 10-year-old daughter started kindergarten, I knew that school schedules were a missing piece of the work/family puzzle. From the assemblies at 11:00 a.m. that only a handful of parents can attend to the countless days when children are off or released early from school, sometimes it’s hard to believe we’re living in the 21st century.

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Rhonda Present

Paid Family Leave

April 11, 2008

Great news this week -- thanks to your hard work, New Jersey is poised to become the third state in the nation with paid family leave. The NJ State Senate passed the bill 21-15 after receiving over 63,000 (yes that's 63 THOUSAND) letters as part of a major MomsRising campaign. That's what I call "naptime activism" in action! Learn more about the campaign behind this success story here on MomsRising.org, and I also wrote about it on my Mojo Mom blog

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Mojo Mom -- Amy Tiemann

Paid Family Leave

March 12, 2008

In New Jersey, a broad coalition of organizations including MomsRising is in the final stages of passing Family Leave Insurance. This is terrific news that has important national implications.

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Katie Bethell

Paid Family Leave Health Care

March 11, 2008

On International Women's Day Saturday, I started thinking about moms around the world and then moms in our own United States of America. As the mother of four children, I've spent a lot of time over the years breastfeeding babies, and so I wondered: Why do moms in the U.S. still lack a guarantee of some paid maternity leave so they have time to bond with their bundles-of-joy?

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Nanette Fondas