Civil and Human Rights Coalition to Release Report on Economic Security

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, May 24 at 1:00 p.m. ET, The Leadership Conference Education Fund (The Education Fund) will release its report, “In Their Own Words: Working People and the Need for Policies that Provide Economic Security,” at an event on Capitol Hill.

The report reviews and calls for policy initiatives in six areas critical to the life of every American worker: higher wages, affordable family leave, paid sick days, fair scheduling, access to health care, and basic living standards. They are all interrelated, so that when one part changes, for better or worse, all the other aspects are affected.

The event will feature remarks from Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president and director of public policy, The Education Fund; Senator Patty Murray, ranking member, Senate HELP Committee; Representative Bobby Scott, ranking member, House Education & the Workforce Committee; and Representative Rosa DeLauro, ranking member, House Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee (invited).

There will also be a panel discussion, moderated by The Education Fund, which will feature speakers from Family Values @ Work, National Council on Disability, National Women’s Law Center, Mothering Justice, and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement.

The event will also be live streamed here.

Interested media are requested to RSVP to Inouye@civilrights.org.

WHO:

• Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president and director of public policy, The Leadership Conference Education Fund,
  Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
• Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), ranking member, House Education & the Workforce Committee
• Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), ranking member, House Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee (invited)
• June Zeitlin, director of human rights policy, The Leadership Conference Education Fund
• Wendy Chun-Hoon, co-executive director, Family Values @ Work
• Rebecca Cokley, executive director, National Council on Disability
• Janel George, director of federal reproductive rights and health, National Women’s Law Center
• Staci Lowry, director of action & organizing, Mothering Justice, featured in “In Their Own Words”
• Monica Ramirez, director of gender equality and Trabajadoras’ ermpowerment, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement