by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – reprinted with permission. Despite being 51% of the population (and 53% of the voting population,) women currently make up just 17% of Congress, 23.6% of state legislatures and women hold just 6 governorships. Shockingly, the...
Guest post by Run, Mama Run candidate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. As a Mother and a Lawmaker, Watching a Child Go Hungry Is Just Something I Will Not Stand For Over the past two years, I’ve traveled throughout New York meeting with farmers and anti-hunger...
Yesterday was Equal Pay Day, an event we discussed on this morning’s MOMocrats MOMochat podcast. Reprinted with permission. I was disheartened to hear Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin recently signed a law that repealed Wisconsin’s Fair Pay Act. This...
Kudos to our own PunditMom, Joanne Bamberger — who more than held her own as the lone progressive with Steve Doocey on this morning’s Fox and Friends. The topic was yesterday’s old news about the misstatement of one Democratic pundit on CNN —...