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• Think Progress: What years as a hotel worker taught this U.S. Congress member about ‘the dignity of
  https://pressley.house.gov/2019/01/16/what-years-hotel-worker-taught-us-congress-member-about-dignity-work/
  ... herself as one of them: For six years, Pressley herself worked in hotels, greeting guests and filling water glasses at fancy banquets. “I… have my own lived experience as a hotel worker,” Pressley, 44, told ThinkProgress. It was a job she performed first...
• Pressley, Jayapal Op-Ed: Raising the Minimum Wage Is a Women's Issue - Ayanna Pressley
  https://pressley.house.gov/2019/07/18/pressley-jayapal-op-ed-raising-minimum-wage-womens-issue/
  .... By gradually increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour and phasing out the tipped minimum wage, the Raise the Wage Act would give 33 million people a raise, including nearly one in three women workers. According to the Economic Policy Institute , 58...
• At Hearing, Pressley Calls for Affordable Housing Investments, Rent Stabilization to Address Inflati
  https://pressley.house.gov/2022/12/01/at-hearing-pressley-calls-for-affordable-housing-investments-rent-stabilization-to-address-inflation-housing-crisis/
  ... most expensive city in the country to rent in. The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment is just over $3,000. This is a crisis, and we must act swiftly. Housing is at the intersect of everything. We will never actualize economic justice, close the racial wealth...
• Pressley Introduces NAACP President Derrick Johnson at Convention’s Plenary Sessions - Ayanna Pressl
  https://pressley.house.gov/2023/07/31/pressley-introduces-naacp-president-derrick-johnson-at-conventions-plenary-sessions/
  ... you what. Y’all look good. You look so beautiful. Family, one thing’s for sure. We don’t look like what we’ve been through. But what a gift to be proximate to and to be immersed in Black brilliance, Black joy, and Black power, as the City of Boston plays host...
• Rep. Pressley Joins Rabbis, Colleagues to Renew Calls for a Ceasefire in Gaza - Ayanna Pressley
  https://pressley.house.gov/2023/11/14/rep-pressley-joins-rabbis-colleagues-to-renew-calls-for-a-ceasefire-in-gaza/
  ... for a Ceasefire in Gaza Calls Come as Death Toll in Gaza Exceeds 11,000, Two-Thirds of Whom are Women and Children “Regardless of our religion or nation of birth, we are one human family, and we have a moral obligation to be our brothers and our sisters’ keeper...
• Pressley Urges Powell to Cut Interest Rates to Boost Housing, Home Affordability - Ayanna Pressley
  https://pressley.house.gov/2024/03/06/pressley-urges-powell-to-cut-interest-rates-to-boost-housing-home-affordability/
  ..., Home Affordability “Housing affordability is the number one issue I’m hearing about from my constituents.” “We need the Fed to start cutting. Because like the rent, interest rates are too damn high.”  Watch (YouTube) WASHINGTON  – Today in a House...
• Pressley Applauds Passage of Boston City Council Ceasefire Resolution - Ayanna Pressley
  https://pressley.house.gov/2024/05/01/pressley-applauds-passage-of-boston-city-council-ceasefire-resolution/
  ... of Massachusetts constituents Wafaa and Abood Okal and their one-year-old Yousef from Gaza. Rep. Pressley and Rep. Jamie Raskin  led  a group of 60 House lawmakers in urging the State Department to affirm the United States’ strong opposition to the forced...
• ICYMI: Pressley Slams Pharmacy Benefit Managers for Putting Profits Over People, Threatening Patient
  https://pressley.house.gov/2024/08/02/icymi-pressley-slams-pharmacy-benefit-managers-for-putting-profits-over-people-threatening-patients-lives/
  ... recommends. These policies are hurting people across our nation, including in my district.  One of my constituents, a mother, shared her story of how she was forced to go through a step therapy to treat her neurological condition and saw her condition worsen...
• DeLauro, Fitzpatrick, Katie Couric Reintroduce the Find It Early Act | Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
  https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-fitzpatrick-katie-couric-reintroduce-find-it-early-act
  ... one percent,”  said Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick.  “Increasing access to cancer screenings is one of the most effective tools to improve outcomes for women diagnosed with breast cancer and I am proud to co-lead the  Find It Early Act   to increase...
• DeLauro Remarks at Ways and Means Member Day: Expanded, Monthly Child Tax Credit is “proven method”
  https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-remarks-ways-and-means-member-day-expanded-monthly-child-tax
  ... this hearing today as we prepare for one of the most important tasks ahead of this Congress: negotiating a tax bill that responds to the cost-of-living crisis in this country.    “But first, if I may, I want to pay tribute to a dear friend, Bill Harris...