On Friday, May 3, Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson reintroduced the Vaccinate All Children Act to promote the immunization of public school children and prevent public health crises. The legislation would disallow states from offering non-medical exemptions for meeting school vaccine requirements. Children for whom immunization is medically safe would be required to be vaccinated in… Read more »
April 14 will mark the five-year anniversary of the abduction of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram. While most of the Chibok girls either escaped or have been released by their captors, 112 remain missing.
For the past five years, Congresswoman Wilson has arduously engaged her congressional colleagues in a social media campaign to ensure that the Chibok… Read more »
Unions are engines of economic mobility that played an essential role in building the nation's middle class. In the past 40-plus years, however, union membership has decreased by 50 percent and workers are paying the price with stagnant wages and fewer workplace protections.On Tuesday, March 26, Congresswoman Wilson, who chairs the Education and Labor Committee's Health, Employment, Labor… Read more »
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement in response to news of Gen. John Kelly's use of video footage of him making a false accusation about her to launch a speaking career:"Upon learning that General John Kelly is using a video of himself telling a blatant lie about me to promote his new public speaking career, I felt as stunned as I did on the day that he… Read more »
More than 50 years have passed since the enactment of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and the nation's college and university campuses are indisputably more diverse than ever. What hasn't changed, however, is that access to post-secondary education opportunities continues to elude many low-income students and students of color, in large part because of cost.On Wednesday, March 13, the… Read more »
As the top Democrat on Education and Labor's Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee, Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson will on Thursday, March 7, drop the gavel at the first HELP hearing of the 116th Congress.Titled "The Cost of Inaction: Why Congress Must Address the Multiemployer Pension Crisis," the hearing will feature expert testimony on what's at stake if… Read more »
The House Education and Labor Committee on Wednesday, March 6, will markup the Raise the Wage Act, legislation that would gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2024. The six-step proposal will boost the bottom line for nearly 40 million hardworking Americans and their local economies.Although the United States is inarguably the richest nation in the world, there are millions… Read more »
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement in response to the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programs for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan until January 2020. The extension was made to comply with a court injunction issued last October by the U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of California after the Trump… Read more »
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement in response to a proposal to offer federal tax credits for contributions to private schools:"When announcing her support for a federal tax credit for contributions to private-school scholarships, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said, ‘A great education shouldn't be determined by luck or by address or by family income.'… Read more »
Today, the House Education and Labor Committee approved the Rebuild America's School Act (H.R. 865). This legislation addresses the chronic underfunding of school infrastructure and the state of disrepair at too many American public schools. H.R. 865, which Congresswoman Wilson co-sponsored, calls for a $100 billion investment to address crumbling buildings, support 21st century digital… Read more »
