THANK YOU for taking action for Paid Leave! SIGN NOW

Dear Friend,

In no small part thanks to YOU raising your voice, signing petitions, speaking out… this week the U.S. Senate took a big step closer to the finish line of finally winning paid family and medical leave for all when they released their budget resolution that includes funding for paid leave. 

YES!!!

→ We cannot take our foot off the gas! Momentum is on our side now. Click here to add your name to our letter urging Congress to move quickly to pass paid leave for all.

This is critical. With COVID cases surging across the country just as we try to go back to school and with offices reopening, the time has never been more urgent to make sure we have paid leave for all.

It’s thanks to MomsRising members like YOU that we are closer to winning this policy than we’ve ever been before. For years, moms and families like yours have been demanding that Congress enact policies that support and invest in the care infrastructure – childcare and early education, paid leave and home and community based services. Thank you!

→ We could finally get it done this year, but only if we keep the pressure on Congress. Add your name to our letter now urging Congress to pass paid leave for all.

A lack of paid leave policies harms our economy, businesses, and families, especially our Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) whose access to programs like paid family and medical leave is lower. [1]  The ability to take time off to bond with a new child, to recover from childbirth, or to care for yourself or a family member when an unexpected health crisis arises is out of reach for many communities of color. Policies like paid family and medical leave would go a long way towards ensuring justice and equity in our systems of care, [2] increase economic productivity, improve a family's financial security as well as promote gender equity in both the home and the workforce. [3]

The pandemic is far from over, and as the Delta variant spreads, families must make tough decisions regarding in-person learning and going back to the workplace while trying to simultaneously keep their families safe. [4]  Congress can help make the choice easier for our families by passing a national paid family and medical leave program this year. 

Tell Congress that NOW is the time for action. We need paid family and medical leave to pass this year.

You and I both know how important it is to have time off to care for ourselves and our loved ones, and we need to make sure our members of Congress know as well! Everyday families are doing the best they can, especially our moms and moms of color who are facing increased economic instability. Only four in five working people have paid leave through their employers, that’s alarming. It means if working people fall ill or need time off when a health emergency arises, they are guaranteed ZERO weeks of paid leave.

This must change and it can change with your continued support. The good news is that we are closer than we’ve ever been to passing a robust, comprehensive paid leave program but our work is not yet done. We need to put even more pressure on our members of Congress while they consider the reconciliation bill that includes paid family and medical leave, child care and home and community based services.

Demand that your members of Congress invest in families, businesses and the economy by passing paid family and medical leave for all.

We’ve been working for generations to obtain paid family and medical leave for moms like you and families like yours. This is our moment. Together, we can win paid leave for all. 

Thank you! 

--Namatie, Ruth, and and the whole MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder Team

References:

[1] Paid Family Leave in the United States 
[2] The Cost of Inaction: How a Lack of Family Care Policies Burdens the U.S. Economy and Families
[3] Paid Family Leave in the United States 
[4] For parents of unvaccinated kids, worsening Delta variant brings alarm, questions

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