Realistic & Fair Wages

March 27, 2019

VICTORY!!! The House of Representative just PASSED the Paycheck Fairness Act -- right in time for Equal Pay Day on April 2nd! Now we’re charging full speed ahead toward the U.S. Senate with our campaign for equal pay! Tell your U.S. Senators to co-sponsor and advance the Paycheck Fairness Act. This...

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Sara Alcid

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Paid Family Leave Realistic & Fair Wages

March 22, 2019

GOOD NEWS! Here’s a welcome good news story about kids’ health and the environment: In North Carolina, public health officials have been working for more than 30 years to eliminate childhood lead poisoning – and have come very close to doing so. Read more here! MOMSRISING RADIO: Have you checked...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

March 21, 2019

“Everyone should work in a restaurant, at least once in their lifetime.” Whether you have worked in a restaurant or not, chances are, you have heard this sage advice. When I hear this advice, I am undeniably proud to have had restaurant experience as part of my story. My first job was as a busser...

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Ali Davidson

Trump Budget Update!

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Immigration Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

March 21, 2019

President Trump released his FY2020 budget last week and no surprises here— he slashed funding for programs that boost our families and kids in order to pay for his wasteful wall and tax cuts to the 1% and Wall Street. I’ll be blunt: President Trump seems to have forgotten that people like you and...

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Elyssa Schmier

Repeal the Trump Tax Scam!

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

March 21, 2019

It’s tax time and we are getting an angry earful from moms around the country about Trump’s backwards tax scam— and need your help letting Congress know what’s going on in the real lives of families in our nation: “ My taxes have gone up due to the cap on state and local taxes. Now it does not pay...

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Elyssa Schmier

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

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Realistic & Fair Wages

March 8, 2019

VICTORY ! MomsRising/MamásconPoder leads the #FamiliesBelongTogether Corporate Accountability Committee of over 100 organizations… and we're thrilled to share that we just had a HUGE victory. One of our two key corporate targets, JP Morgan Chase bank, just announced: "We will no longer bank the...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Take Action!

MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages

March 5, 2019

This is huge. Just last week, the Paycheck Fairness Act was passed by the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor! Next, the bill is headed to a floor vote, where it could pass the House of Representatives. And it can’t pass a moment too soon! Why not a moment too soon? Because TODAY is a giant...

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Sara Alcid

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

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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