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October 28, 2026
Statement “Our workplaces are fairer, our communities healthier, our country stronger because of Dolores Huerta’s fierce, incredibly effective lifetime of advocacy. She was an icon who spent decades advancing the dignity of farmworkers, Latinas, women, and all working people. She was a mom who worked tirelessly to help children and families by amplifying the voices and improving the living conditions of the low-wage workers who too often are overlooked. She was a transformative figure who gave voice to those who others leave behind.”
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October 28, 2026
Media advisory On Friday at 4:30pm, MomsRising Together will bring its “PA Feels the Squeeze” pop-up lemonade stand to the Cumberland Valley Rising Freedom Fridays Rally in Carlisle Square. Stocked with cans of real lemonade, the stand’s “Mom the Vote” team will engage families in conversation about how rising prices are squeezing their families, and share information about the importance of voting in the midterm elections. 
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October 15, 2026
Media advisory TUCSON – On Friday, October 16th at 2:00 PM,  Rep. Adelita Grijalva, care advocates, and Tucson families and caregivers will hold a roundtable to discuss the urgent need for commonsense solutions to lower the cost of child care and in-home care for older adults and disabled people, and finally make paid family and medical leave a reality for all working people. In Arizona, where the annual median wage is $50,060, care costs are taking up an increasing share of family budgets:
October 14, 2026
Statement “We are alarmed and deeply disappointed that Governor Hochul is defying moms, families, educators, and New York’s civil rights community by opting into the Trump administration’s scholarship tax credit scheme.
October 8, 2026
Statement “Today is a painful reminder that year after year, Latinas continue to face an unjust, punishing wage gap that drains much-needed resources from our families, our communities and our economy. This shameful discrimination hits Latina moms the hardest; on average, Latina moms are paid just 41 cents for every dollar paid to White, non-Hispanic dads. Overall, Latinas are paid a disgraceful 53 cents on a White, non-Hispanic man’s dollar, robbing families of resources needed to pay for the soaring cost of health care, child care, housing, groceries and more.
October 5, 2026
Statement “The proposed regulations the Treasury Department and the IRS issued last week on the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit only intensified our concern that this tax credit voucher scheme will rob our country’s public schools of the resources they need to educate the next generation.
September 25, 2026
PA Feels the Squeeze, and We Have the Receipts!
Media advisory On Monday and Tuesday, MomsRising Together and Pennsylvanians Together in Action  will host pop-up lemonade stands in Harrisburg, Scranton and Bethlehem to hear from local families about how the soaring cost of gas, groceries, health care, child care and other essentials is squeezing their budgets. 

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