The Power of ONEsie.(Who ... When ... Where ... How ... WHAT?)

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Just hours after a group of Oregon mothers stood outside the state legislature pushing for the passage of paid family leave, the lawmakers inside scheduled a work session on just that issue.

Earlier this year, a different group of mothers gathered at the state capitol in Olympia, Wash. to push forward a similar bill. Washington became the second state in the nation to pass Family Paid Leave.

So how did they do it? Maybe it was the group's fervor, determination and commitment (ever hear of the mom who lifted a car to save her child?). Or, maybe it was the visual of hundreds of one-of-a-kind onesies--yes, the kind a baby wears--lining the campus that pushed both legislatures to action.

MomsRising members across the nation have been credited with much of the progress that's been made on passing paid family leave legislation. Through the group's "The Power of ONEsie" campaign, MomsRising has received more than 1,000 onesies decorated by mothers in California, Oregon, Utah, Pennsylvania, Georgia and New Jersey, to name a few.

The goal, according to Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, is to display the campaign in "hot spots" around the country. They're currently pushing the issue in New Jersey, where on Dec. 10 the group displayed a line of homemade onesies along the Statehouse Annex and pushed to approve a family leave insurance bill, which is still pending and not yet on the legislative agenda.

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