Statement “The horrific violence at the Chabad Synagogue in Poway, California, this weekend, on the last day of Passover -- one of the holiest days of the year for the Jewish community -- is an excruciatingly painful reminder of the price we pay when anti-Semitism and white supremacy go unchecked. Our hearts break for the family of Lori Kaye, who was murdered, and for all those who were injured and terrorized by this brutal, senseless act.
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April 29, 2019
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April 25, 2019
Statement “MomsRising commends the Colorado state Senate for passing SB19-188 today. This is the first time the state Senate has passed a bill moving paid family and medical leave forward in Colorado. We are encouraged that Senators Faith Winter and Angela Williams, the bill sponsors, were able to forge a path forward with an implementation bill that creates a timeline and process for passing the kind of comprehensive paid family and medical leave program Coloradans urgently need.
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April 24, 2019
News release Olympia – A broad coalition has formed to speak out against extremism. Twenty-nine organizations from across Washington State have signed a statement asking that state legislators -- Jim Walsh, Robert Sutherland, Matt Shea, Brian Blake, Tom Dent, and Phil Fortunato-- cancel their scheduled appearances at the April 27 “March for Our Rights.” The event page on Facebook listed these officials as speakers on the event schedule along with organizations known in the Northwest for their violent rhetoric and actions.
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April 16, 2019
News release RALEIGH, NC – With health coverage for about half a million low-income North Carolinians at stake as the state legislature considers expanding Medicaid, MomsRising and the Health Action NC coalition organized a powerful Statewide Day of Action today that is raising the voices of state residents in support of closing the coverage gap. North Carolinians are personally delivering storybooks that relay the experiences of state residents who are without health coverage to every state legislator today.
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April 12, 2019
Statement “Washington State took an important step forward on equal pay today — in a strong bipartisan vote the State Senate passed E.S.H.B. 1696, which bans employers from asking about pay history. The bill was already passed by the State House.
“Washington will join six other states in banning all employers from asking about pay history. It also provides new rights to some job applicants. Upon being offered a position, applicants may request the minimum salary or hourly rate for a position if the employer has at least 15 employees.
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April 10, 2019
News release WASHINGTON, DC -- MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, today endorsed the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act (“NO BAN Act”). This civil rights bill would end the Muslim Ban and amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, ensuring that no president can ever again ban an entire community without accountability.
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April 10, 2019
News release WASHINGTON, DC – At a news conference today at which U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (OH), Michael Bennet (CO), Dick Durbin (IL) and Ron Wyden (OR) introduced the Working Families Tax Relief Act, MomsRising member Julie Groce discussed how her family would benefit. The Working Families Tax Relief Act would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in order to make our tax code work for working families. Groce, an elementary school teacher who lives in Tucson, is mom to a one-year-old.
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April 8, 2019
Statement “While Secretary Nielsen’s departure will bring new leadership to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), we need new policies and perspectives that are based on facts and built on a foundation of respect for basic human rights. It is very clear that the problem with our country’s current immigration policies starts at the top. Unless President Trump stops demonizing asylum-seekers and abandons his counterproductive policies, his administration will continue to fail.
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April 4, 2019
Statement “The Paying Hourly Americans Stronger Earnings (PHASE)-in $15 Wage Act (H.R. 2080), introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-7), is ill-conceived and harmful. At this time when working moms and their families urgently need a raise, we should recognize the national minimum wage as the essential federal protection it is and reject all efforts to weaken it by allowing regional adjustments.
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April 3, 2019
Statement “As our name suggests, MomsRising is a moms organization and we are saying, clearly, loudly, and without equivocation that a paid leave program that provides parental leave only, and fails to cover the vast majority of caregiving needs families face, as U.S. Sen. Cassidy discussed this morning, would be fatally flawed.
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