Jeannine Gallagher Jeannine Gallagher

Help Women Survive and Recover from the COVID-19 Pandemic

YWCA USA joined this letter urging Congress to pass these two critical bills as a first step in enacting a robust agenda to help women survive and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession, which includes raising the minimum wage to $15/hour, creating a permanent paid family and medical leave policy, setting a national paid sick days standard, creating an equitable, sustainable child care system for all, protecting women from violence and workplace harassment, and strengthening the right to organize and bargain collectively.

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Jeannine Gallagher Jeannine Gallagher

YWCA USA FY22 Appropriations Requests

This YWCA USA letter outlines the networks appropriations requests for fiscal year 2022 regarding FVPSA, Child Care Development Block Grant, Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims, Continuum of Care, and the Emergency Solutions Grant Program.

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Jeannine Gallagher Jeannine Gallagher

Extend Paycheck Protection Program Application Deadline

YWCA USA joined this letter requesting that Congress extend the Paycheck Protection Program application deadline from the end of March through the end of the year to adequately assure that all qualifying businesses and nonprofits can access needed PPP relief.

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Jeannine Gallagher Jeannine Gallagher

Include Additional Provisions in COVID-19 Legislation

YWCA USA joined NIIAG's letter to express our support for provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 that will bolster community and civic structures that ensure all communities across America, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of color who have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, can rebuild, engage, and thrive.

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Jeannine Gallagher Jeannine Gallagher

Support Underpaid Workers: Raise the Wage Act

YWCA USA joined this letter to call on all Members of Congress to finally give nearly 32 million workers the raise they have fought so hard to secure by raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 generating $107 billion in higher wages for workers.

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Jeannine Gallagher Jeannine Gallagher

Support for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act 2021

YWCA USA joined this letter urging Congress to support Pregnant Workers Fairness Act which healthy pregnancies and economic security for pregnant workers and their families and strengthens the economy.

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Jeannine Gallagher Jeannine Gallagher

Include Nonprofits in Paycheck Protection Program Improvements

YWCA USA joined this letter supporting language that would clarify that “a nonprofit organization shall be eligible to receive a covered loan if the nonprofit organization employs not more than 500 employees per physical location of the organization.

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