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Help us be loud for paid leave and child care? Send your letter to the editor now!
Be on the lookout – MomsRising and our partners are going BIG for paid leave and child care in NC! Last week 13 eye-catching billboards went up in six cities and along major interstates across North Carolina shouting to the world what we already know: NC families need access to paid leave and child care now!
The billboards, in prominent locations in Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem, are sponsored by the NC Families Care Coalition, of which MomsRising is proud to be a member. The coalition represents more than two dozen diverse organizations advocating for family-friendly workplace policies for working North Carolinians and their families, including paid sick and safe days, paid family medical and parental leave, and pregnancy accommodations.
Each billboard rotates three messages:
- We shouldn’t have to choose between a paycheck & our families. Paid leave now.
- Working families need paid leave and child care.
- Help NC go back to work and support small businesses. Paid leave and child care now.
They are designed to raise awareness about the policies and investments families and small businesses in the state need to recover from the ongoing pandemic, which has created unprecedented hardship and dislocation across North Carolina and the country. As COVID-19 has spread, tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been sickened and killed, schools have closed, jobs have disappeared, family caregiving needs have increased, and women have been disproportionately pushed out of the jobs they need to support their families. The programs and policies that can help are especially relevant as Congress considers creating the country’s first national paid leave program and making badly needed, historic investments in child care.
Sometimes we have to use our outside voices to be heard. Can you help us be even louder by sending a letter to the editor about the billboards right now? We’ll make it easy and quick!
Letters to the editor are an incredibly powerful way to make sure our elected leaders get the message. Lawmakers are reading their local papers to get a sense of what matters to people in their community. Can you help make sure paid leave and child care makes it to the top of their agenda by sending a quick letter now?
It’s easy! We’ll lead you through a quick process to write a letter to the editor. This tool is pretty amazing—just copy, paste, and edit one of our pre-drafted letters (or draft your own—we’ve provided talking points, too!) and send it to your paper with a few clicks.
Just add your information in the form and click 'NEXT' to get started.
Help us be loud for paid leave and child care? Send your letter to the editor now!
Click the links below to get talking points, writing tips and samples