Current Campaigns
Tell Congress: Protect Unemployment Insurance for Millions of Americans
Federal unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were set to expire right before the holidays in December. House Republicans passed a bill that would slash the UI safety net (and more). At the last minute, Congress agreed to continue federal UI benefits for two months. But that extension expires in less than a month. We need your help to prevent millions of unemployed workers from losing the lifeline of UI benefits. Don't let it get down to the wire again — ask your Members of Congress TODAY to pass a clean UI extension with no cuts or barriers to benefits!
Tell Congress: Make Millionaires and Corporations Pay Their Fair Share
In his State of the Union address, President Obama emphasized a vital point: that unfair, and even counter-productive, tax breaks for corporations and the very wealthy shortchange needed investments for women and their families. Tell your Members of Congress to make millionaires and corporations pay their fair share, to protect vital programs and to create jobs for the millions of struggling Americans who need them.
Tell Congress: Make Sure Girls Get a Fair Chance in Sports
High schools, like colleges, should be required to make information about their sports programs publicly available. Please ask your Members of Congress to support the High School Athletics Accountability Act, H.R. 458, and the High School Data Transparency Act, S. 1269. These two bills would require high schools to report information, broken down by gender, on sports participation and expenditures. Schools are already collecting this information, but since it is not public, parents and students cannot evaluate their athletics programs to make sure that girls are being treated fairly.
Tell Congress that girls and women deserve equal opportunities to be physically active and that communities deserve access to gender equity information about their schools' sports programs.
Tell Your Senators to Vote on All Judicial Nominees
Almost one in ten federal judgeships sits empty, and over one-third of those vacancies are in courts so overburdened that they have been deemed judicial emergencies. When our courts aren't working at full capacity, it takes longer to resolve civil cases. Tell your Senators to get the job done and vote on ALL judicial nominees.
Tell the Senate to Outlaw Discrimination of LGBT Students
Tell your Senators that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) renewal bill must outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. It is essential that ESEA includes the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA), to outlaw discrimination in public K-12 schools based on sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Submitting Comments to the Department of Labor
The Department of Labor is currently considering creating a new compensation data tool that would make it easier to enforce laws that prohibit pay discrimination. Since 2006, the federal government has had NO tool to effectively monitor wage discrimination based on race, national origin and gender by private employers. This means that our tax dollars could possibly be going to federal contractors who are not paying women fairly. It's time to take a stand. Raise your voice: tell the Department of Labor to move us forward and collect wage data.
To Submit Comments, please follow these instructions.
Tell Your Senators That School Reform Legislation Must Improve School Climate
As we mark the 39th year of Title IX, the federal law that bans sex discrimination in federally funded education programs, it's important not to forget the many challenges that remain. Right now, the Senate is working on major school reform legislation and we expect to see a bill introduced this summer. Tell your Senators that this bill must include measures to improve school climate.
Urge Your Members of Congress to Co-Sponsor the Paycheck Fairness Act
Following the Supreme Court decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, a devastating 5-4 decision in favor of the defendant, Wal-Mart, it is time for Congress to take the steps necessary to help close the wage gap that all female employees face in the workplace by effectively addressing wage discrimination and eliminating loopholes that have undermined the Equal Pay Act's effectiveness. The Paycheck Fairness Act would deter wage discrimination by closing loopholes in the Equal Pay Act and barring retaliation against workers who disclose their wages to coworkers.
Urge Your Representative to Support the Fairness in Taxation Act
The Fairness in Taxation Act, H.R. 1124, sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, is a progressive, responsible tax bill that ensures millionaires and billionaires start paying their fair share of taxes. The current tax code doesn't distinguish between households earning $373,000 and hedge fund managers earning billions of dollars a year. The Fairness in Taxation Act would create new tax brackets for annual income starting above $1 million and ending with $1 billion and up. It also would tax capital gains and dividends at the same rate as income from work for taxpayers with income above $1 million, instead of a much lower tax rate.
Tell Your Senators to Protect Women's Health and Oppose S. 906
Anti-choice Senators have jumped on the House's passage of H.R. 3 by introducing a companion bill in the Senate, S. 906. We can't let this dangerous bill move forward. During the H.R. 3 debate, nearly 40 Representatives spoke out on the House floor to detail the dangers of H.R. 3. Their speeches illustrated how the bill would impose tax increases on millions of individuals and small businesses with insurance plans that cover abortion and harm women's health by erecting barriers designed to prevent women from getting the abortion care they need.
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