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I hope you’re having a good Mother’s Day, and if this holiday hits
you hard, my heart goes out to you.

I’m thinking about my mother today, and I’m thinking about a time when she
dug deep to take care of our family.

After my daddy had a heart attack, he couldn’t work for a while. Bills
piled up. We lost our family station wagon. It looked like the house would
be next to go. At night, I’d overhear my parents talk, and that's when I
learned words like “mortgage” and “foreclosure.”

One day, I walked into my parents’ bedroom. My mother’s face was red and
puffy. A dress was laid out over the bedspread — the dress that only came
out for weddings, graduations, and funerals.

"We are not going to lose this house,” she kept saying. “We are not going
to lose this house.”

She’d never worked outside the home. She was terrified. But she knew what
she had to do. I watched her while she pulled it together, put that dress
on, put on her high heels, blew her nose, walked to Sears, and got a
minimum wage job. And that minimum wage job saved our house, but more
importantly, it saved our family.

This is a story that’s written on my heart. I’m remembering my mother’s
courage this Mother’s Day — and I’m thinking about all the mamas out there
fighting for their families. I’m also thinking about all the ways the deck
is stacked against mothers and families like ours today.

A mother in the same situation as our family today would not be able to
work a minimum wage job and keep everyone afloat. Today, the federal
minimum wage is $7.25 per hour — a wage that has not increased in about 15
years. With that, a family living on minimum wage today is living in
poverty.

And, without quality, affordable child care, mothers have been shoved out
of the workforce. They will feel the consequences — in lost earnings, in
lower Social Security benefits — for the rest of their lives.

And, notably, most women who get abortions today are already mothers. Many
are working multiple jobs that don’t pay enough to support their children.
Abortion bans make it even harder for those families to make ends meet.

I’m going to keep up the fight for higher wages, affordable child care,
paid family leave, and reproductive freedom to honor my mother and mothers
everywhere.

And, look: I’m sure that social media right now is chock-full of
Republican politicians waxing poetic about how much they love mothers. But
I don’t want to see any tributes from them today unless they’re actually
going to do something — anything — to improve the lives of mothers
tomorrow.

Thank you,
for being a part of our grassroots movement to make real change — to put
our government on the side of mothers and families.

Elizabeth






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