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HEROES Act Would Give America’s Working Families the Paid Leave and Other Essential Supports We All Need in This Pandemic

May 13, 2020
Statement “The HEROES (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) Act is vitally important legislation that would provide the help the country needs right now when it comes to access to paid leave/sick days, health care, nutrition assistance, and aid to state and local governments. We urge Congress to pass it immediately, as we also recognize that more must be done to fully address the needs of families, businesses, and our economy.
Campaigns:
Workplace Justice, Paid Sick Days, Paid Family & Medical Leave, Early Care & Education, Health Care, Immigration
MomsRising Together

We’re In the Same Storm But Not All In the Same Boat, Moms Leader Says, Calling This a Mother’s Day Like No Other

May 8, 2020
Statement “This is a Mother’s Day like no other for our country’s moms. We’re trying to keep our kids occupied, healthy, and safe. Watching our jobs disappear and our childcare centers close. Wondering how to keep our aging parents from evading social distancing rules. Struggling to feed our kids. Mourning our loved ones. Trying to understand how, at this moment, any lawmaker can oppose making food, health care, and paid leave available to all of us. Worrying about the future, often as we toss and turn at 3 a.m.
Campaigns:
Paid Sick Days, Paid Family & Medical Leave, Early Care & Education, Federal Budget, Health Care, Immigration
MomsRising Together

'Not Nearly Enough,' Moms Leader Says, Calling the Bill the House Passed Today 'Just the Beginning of the Pandemic Response the Country Needs'

April 23, 2020
Statement “We are grateful that Congress has passed the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act – its fourth coronavirus response bill. It will provide urgently needed funds for hospitals and small businesses, and to support the COVID-19 testing we need across the nation. We thank Speaker Pelosi and all the House leaders who transformed it from a Republican scheme that did nothing for hospitals or for the small businesses that are most at-risk to the legislation it is today.
Campaigns:
Workplace Justice, Paid Sick Days, Paid Family & Medical Leave, Early Care & Education, Health Care, Immigration
MomsRising Together

'Heartless and Harmful,' Moms Leaders Say About Trump Executive Order Suspending Immigration

April 21, 2020
Statement “America’s moms are dismayed and horrified by reports that President Trump is about to issue an executive order suspending all immigration to the United States. This is another attempt by the President to distract us from his complete and utter failure to protect us as the country grapples with the worst public health crisis we have experienced in a century.  We need more tests, not more blame and failed leadership.
Campaigns:
Immigration
MomsRising Together

Leading Moms Group Urges Speedy Passage of the Coronavirus Immigrant Families Protection Act, Calling It ‘Legislation Our Nation Needs Now’

April 8, 2020
Statement “The ways our lawmakers have excluded immigrant families from health care and other essential services during the Trump administration has been both cruel and counterproductive. It is more evident than ever during this pandemic that families, communities, and our country are stronger and safer when every person, including all those in vulnerable communities, have access to health coverage and care. That is why America’s moms commend U.S. Senators Mazie K.
Campaigns:
Health Care, Immigration
MomsRising Together

As Our Hearts Break for All Those Suffering in the Pandemic, We Note that Today Is Historic -- the First Day with National Paid Sick Days and Paid Leave In America

April 1, 2020
Statement “The circumstances are devastating and the program far, far from adequate but, nonetheless, this is a landmark day in the United States – today marks the first ever in which we have limited, nationwide paid sick days and paid leave in place for working families.
Campaigns:
Workplace Justice, Paid Sick Days, Paid Family & Medical Leave
MomsRising Together

On Equal Pay Day and As the COVID-19 Pandemic Continues, We Demand Policies that Close Damaging Wage Gaps and Boost Family Economic Security

March 31, 2020
Statement “As the COVID-19 crisis shines a light on our nation’s unconscionable wealth gap, Equal Pay Day serves as a painful annual reminder of one of root causes of this inequality. In the United States today, women across all races and ethnicities are paid just 82 cents on average for every dollar paid to men. Many racial and ethnic groups face even more punitive gaps. For example, Black women are paid just 62 cents, Native American women 57 cents, and Latinas 52 cents for every dollar paid to White, non-Hispanic men.
Campaigns:
Workplace Justice, Equal Pay
MomsRising Together

Moms Leader Commends Congress for Passing Coronavirus Rescue Package, Calling It a 'Flawed Bill That Must Be Supplemented and Fixed'

March 27, 2020
Statement “The CARES Act will provide urgently needed support to moms and working families, small businesses, and to our health care system including the skilled, heroic frontline workers who are caring for those who have been stricken by COVID-19. Despite its flaws, America’s moms commend Congress for passing it -- while at the same time urging members to immediately begin work on another rescue package that supplements and fixes it by targeting aid to all those in need.
Campaigns:
Workplace Justice, Paid Sick Days, Paid Family & Medical Leave, School-to-Prison Pipeline, Early Care & Education, Federal Budget, Health Care, Immigration
MomsRising Together

A Better Plan: Moms Leaders Praise House Democratic Coronavirus Relief Plan

March 24, 2020
Statement “We commend Democratic leaders in both the U.S. Senate and the House for fighting so hard for working families and urge them to continue doing so as Congress finalizes its third coronavirus relief package. This bill will provide unprecedented resources to get us through this unprecedented emergency, and it absolutely must direct those resources to working families – not to a slush fund that will benefit wealthy corporations, without oversight or transparency.
Campaigns:
Workplace Justice, Paid Sick Days, Paid Family & Medical Leave, Health Care, Immigration
MomsRising Together

America’s Moms Thank Democratic Leaders for Focusing on Immigrant Workers and Families as Congress Finalizes Its Latest Pandemic Relief Package

March 23, 2020
Statement “In emergencies like this, it is especially important that the solutions we craft and the resources we allocate are targeted to those in greatest need. Every family that needs it, including families with mixed immigration status, must be able to access testing and treatment so they can combat the coronavirus. Even the President said he agrees on that. 
Campaigns:
Immigration
MomsRising Together

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