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- 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 Inflatihttps://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 Presslhttps://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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 Patienthttps://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...
- https://strickland.house.gov/2024/10/15/squaxin-park-event-celebrates-indigenous-peoples-day-reflects-on-columbus-day/... thankful for this life,” she said. “I am praisingly thankful for my life. I am praisingly thankful for all things. Fix my mind, thoughts, fix my body, fix my spirit, you make them one, and I will be well in this life. So be it. Amen.” Members of the tribe...
- https://swalwell.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/swalwell-evo.house.gov/files/Swalwell%20Horsford%20Prioritize%20Paid%20Leave.pdf.... The market is not and will not solve this problem on its own. Currently only one in five workers in this country have paid family leave through their employers, and only two in five have employer-provided short-term disability. One in five retirees leave...
- https://johnjoyce.house.gov/media/press-releases/joyce-introduces-measure-award-medal-honor-bedford-wwii-hero... College of Pennsylvania, and our corps of cadets, dedicated alumni, faculty, and community, I want to extend our deep appreciation to Congressman Joyce for offering this legislation to honor one of our nation's fallen heroes, LT. Eric Fisher Wood, Jr...