News release WASHINGTON, DC – At a news conference today at which U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) re-introduced the American Family Act, MomsRising member Jessica Morrison discussed how the high cost of child care has affected her family. Morrison, a Philadelphia-area resident with a four-year-old, is pregnant with her second child. Morrison’s partner now drives nights for Uber and Lyft in order to care for their four-year-old daughter four days a week, while Jessica is at her job.
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March 6, 2019
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March 5, 2019
Statement "Today’s announcement from JPMorgan Chase that: 'We will no longer bank the private prison industry,' is a tremendous victory for the moms, activists, and the more than 100 organizations in the #FamiliesBelongTogether Corporate Accountability Coalition, which MomsRising coordinates. These more than 100 organizations have worked tirelessly to end JPMorgan Chase’s financing of private prison companies, which are profiting from detention of immigrant families.
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March 5, 2019
Statement “Today reminds us of the harmful, unjust pay gaps Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women face. We must remember that AAPI women are not a homogenous group, and certain ethnicities experience some of the most extreme, punitive wage gaps in the country. For instance, Burmese women are paid only 50 cents on average for every dollar paid to a white, non-Hispanic man, and Hmong women just 57 cents. AAPI moms face a wage gap of 74 cents on the dollar compared to white, non-Hispanic fathers.
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February 27, 2019
Statement “It’s a new day, and a new Congress, and America’s moms are thrilled that so early in the year, the House of Representatives has passed H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, with a strong, bipartisan vote of 240-190. This basic, commonsense reform is badly overdue and the Senate should waste no time in passing it as well. This should be the beginning of a series of reforms that will collectively help end the scourge of gun violence that is taking more than 40,000 lives in our country each year.
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February 26, 2019
Statement “The House of Representatives did what was right today by rejecting President Trump’s disgraceful, politically motivated, utterly bogus declaration of a national emergency. We strongly urge the U.S. Senate to do the same. Manufacturing a national emergency in order to build a wall the country neither wants, nor needs, is despicable – a gross violation of the President’s powers and a dangerous threat to the checks and balances our Constitution guarantees.
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February 26, 2019
News release WASHINGTON, DC – Immediately after U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) reintroduced the Child Care for Working Families Act at a Capitol Hill news conference this afternoon, MomsRising members from across the country delivered teddy bears and poems using the theme, “Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?” to their members of Congress.
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February 14, 2019
Statement “Undermining Congress by manufacturing a national emergency in order to build a wall the country neither wants nor needs would be a gross violation of the President’s powers and a dangerous threat to the checks and balances our constitution guarantees.
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February 14, 2019
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Contacts: Lourdes Martinez, 202-271-9195; Xochitl Oseguera, 925-389,8065; momsrising@berlinrosen.com
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February 14, 2019
News release Contact: Lauren Hipp, lauren@momsrising.com, 206.550.7784; Joel Ryan, joel@wsaheadstarteceap.com, 253.486.9077; Katy Warren, Katy@wsaheadstarteceap.com, 206.291.2021
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February 13, 2019
Statement “At MomsRising, we regularly hear from women experiencing unfair pay, who fear retaliation in their workplaces and therefore can’t speak up, and who need the protections the Paycheck Fairness Act would provide: freedom from retaliation; making it easier to collectively challenge pay discrimination; an end to the use of prior salary histories to set current salaries; and the additional protections that would finally move us closer to pay parity. Laura is one such woman…
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