[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6589]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE MOTHER'S DAY REPORT

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, another Mother's 
Day has come and gone, and millions of Americans took time out to 
express their gratitude to their mothers for all the wonderful things 
they do. But some still have an outdated picture in their minds of 
their mothers spending all their time home baking cookies when, more 
typically, American mothers are at a job bringing home the bacon.
  According to a Mother's Day report produced by the Joint Economic 
Committee, the typical American family has changed dramatically over 
the last 50 years, and fewer than one in five families match the old 
stereotype of the father at the job and the mom at home. Today, fully 
70 percent of mothers are in the labor force because they have to be in 
the labor force to provide for their families.
  Our lives have changed dramatically, but our public policies haven't 
kept pace with these changes. For instance, the United States and Papua 
New Guinea are the only two countries in the world--the only two in the 
world--that do not provide paid leave for the birth of a child.
  So before another Mother's Day rolls around, let's give mothers 
something they really want: policies that allow them to hold well-
paying jobs so that they can help provide for their families.

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