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Do you know what breaks my heart every time? Meeting a single mother working full time who is homeless because she can’t afford to pay rent in Los Angeles earning $15.50 an hour. More than 70% of single mothers are rent burdened—the housing crisis is a women’s issue.
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Announcing our 2022 elections report! This last cycle, women broke barriers. Moms broke barriers. Moms in Office is incredibly proud to have been integral to the campaigns of women across California and across the nation. (1/6)Show this thread
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This is why we are focused on solutions to homelessness, housing people can afford, and good jobs - it’s all connected and we need holistic approaches to solving homelessness.
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Do you know what breaks my heart every time? Meeting a single mother working full time who is homeless because she can’t afford to pay rent in Los Angeles earning $15.50 an hour. More than 70% of single mothers are rent burdened—the housing crisis is a women’s issue.
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This is also personal to me. As someone who received a second chance at succeeding in life, I know how different my life could have turned out if I didn’t have access to educational opportunities and a path to citizenship. Everyone deserves a second chance.
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At this time of crisis in Los Angeles organizations like Chrysalis are of vital importance helping homeless and poverty-stricken individuals back into the workforce. We can end poverty and homelessness if enough people decide they want to and I am putting my best foot forward.
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Some personal news: I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the amazing team at Chrysalis in Los Angeles as a Development Director.
While the mission to elect more moms continues, working with local campaigns in 2022 underscored the urgent need to help my community.
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On the 30th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act, uplifting the words of : “It is unacceptable that 1 in 4 women living in the US returns to work within two weeks of giving birth.” As a mom, I know this is acceptable. More on #PaidLeave 👇🏼
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The FMLA, which has its 30th anniversary today, ensures that most workers are able to receive 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a new child or sick family member. The bill, however, doesn’t apply to the 44% of workers and millions of workers cannot afford to take unpaid leave.
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Caring for children in America is so expensive that having children is a leading cause of poverty in the United States. #FMLA30 #PaidLeaveForAll
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331 million people live in the United States.
167.6 million of them are women.
Of those, at least 71.75 million women are employed.
3.5 million births a year.
It is unacceptable that 1 in 4 women living in the US returns to work within two weeks of giving birth. #PaidLeave
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“It's about being a country where women and all people can both work and raise a family. How can we compete in a global economy of millions of American parents, especially moms, can't join the workforce?”
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The FMLA, which has its 30th anniversary today, ensures that most workers are able to receive 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a new child or sick family member. The bill, however, doesn’t apply to the 44% of workers and millions of workers cannot afford to take unpaid leave.
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Join me as I deliver remarks to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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LA preschool is awesome because you pay the price of two houses in Ohio for them to go from like 10am-2pm and then they are out sick every other week because some kid named McGyver who can’t eat gluten or dairy came to school covered in snot.
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#TheHardPart: Read 's column processing that this really is our new normal: "I’m starting to wake up to the realization that maybe there isn’t another side to get to. That this is the road we’re on, and there’s nowhere to pull over. So now what?"
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There is nowhere in this country where a full-time worker paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25 can make ends meet — and yet many restaurant workers are paid a sub-minimum wage of just $2.13 an hour. Totally absurd.
It's time to end starvation wages for tipped workers.
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NOW: I’m joining Senate and House Democrats to unveil a joint resolution: ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.
Women have been waiting far too long for our Constitution to reflect their equality.
Our bill affirms: the 38-state threshold has been met.
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Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies are reporting a record smashing combined profit of $190 billion for 2022.
Eliminate unnecessary subsidies and fund policies families long deserved.
Congress needs to find the moral courage to fight for people over profits.
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The Build Back Better Act, would establish paid leave for workers. The program would cost about $20 billion a year. Instead of families, oil companies receive $20 billion a year in federal subsidies.
We have the funds to help families and Congress has the power to change this.
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“It all started by writing down some ideas while standing at her kitchen counter. She wasn’t in a swanky office. She’s not an established politician. She didn’t have millions of dollars of funding. She’s just a mom with an idea and the fire within to make it happen.”
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“Imagine her sitting in the congressional chair or Oval Office, rather than whichever candidate has the most money.
Imagine.
Simona Grace is already imagining it.”
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“Imagine electing a passionate mother to office, whose campaign strategy is chock-full of practical, fair ideas like adequate minimum wage, flexible hours and innovative workspace that allowed nursing mothers to bring their babies to work…”
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“Imagine the political landscape if elected seats were filled by qualified, hard-working individuals who truly know first-hand what the majority of Americans endure from day to day—especially moms, raising the children of our future.”
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This popped up from exactly 3 years ago⬇️
“This single mom who immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary at age 18 knowing not one word of English is making real change—all because she had a vision and didn’t listen to anyone who tried to get in her way.”
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I love when new data reaffirms my book's thesis. Per and American mothers "feel increasingly torn between their various roles" + " they felt judged for their parenting by friends or other parents"
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"More public investment is needed to ensure families across the income spectrum have access to high-quality child care, which includes providing compensation that can attract and retain skilled workers."
More on how NM is leading the way in child care:
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"It's not a bipartisan issue. Prioritizing young children is a good thing."
Absolutely. The brain development that occurs in the first 5 years—1 million neural connections per second—will never be matched later in life. It's a beautiful, critical window.
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4 years ago, nobody believed that a single working mom can fundraise and succeed in the political space. I didn’t get the naysayers get in the way because I knew how much the work was needed. Don’t get anything get in the way, speak from your heart and keep the faith.
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While I have some personal news to share soon, the work at #momsinoffice will continue. We are so excited to build our CA state PAC in addition to our federal PAC to elect more women in CA. Our goal is also to bring moms together and giving candidates a space to to connect.
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Flashback to 01/2019 when I was trying to figure out how to fundraise and help moms in politics.
For the 2022 election cycle, we received over 5,000 donations and raised close to $200k to help elect moms up and down the ballot and fight gender bias in politics. 4 years 🎂🙏
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Childcare changes lives and strengthens communities. In SF, a transformative policy has made 10,000 more kids eligible for subsidized childcare and increased wages for 2,500 early childhood educators. enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/sdut/
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This report confirms what we all know: child care is out of reach for too many families. That’s why we need universal child care.
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Spoiler alert: #Childcare expenses are too high for many American families – accounting for ~8-19% of median family income *per child*
More findings from our new report on childcare prices: dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f
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More findings from our new report on childcare prices: dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f
#CostOfCare
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The only video of Tyre Nichols we should all be watching.
Rest in Paradise 🕊️
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I helped launch the Dads Caucus today because my kids are the reason I’m in Congress. I do this job for them. I want our kids to have better futures, and I hope this caucus plays a part in that by helping dads and moms across our country.
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Great to chat w/ on being a young dad in Congress, working w/ Alex to raise our 2 wonderful children + the importance of supporting working families.
I ran to improve our country’s future for each and every child. W/ , that’s exactly what we’ll do.
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The first Congressional Dads Caucus is set to be announced Thursday at a news conference on Capitol Hill.
The caucus, its members say, will advocate for policies and legislation to help support American working families.
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The vicious, unjustified beating of Tyre Nichols and his ultimate death at the hands of five Memphis police officers is just the latest, painful reminder of how far America still has to go in fixing how we police our streets.
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this made me think of you and all that you accomplished with the Parents Caucus in the Washington State Legislature.
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