1/ YES!!! My statement on the historic passage of paid family and medical leave and other care priorities in the Build Back Better Act (linked & below).
#paidleave
#paidleaveforall
#BuildBackBetterAct
#Childcare
#HCBS
#CareCantWait
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#paidleave
#paidleaveforall
#BuildBackBetterAct
#Childcare
#HCBS
#CareCantWait
newamerica.org/better-life-la…
2/ “The United States is one step closer tonight to finally enacting a national paid family and medical leave program so that every working person can care for themselves, a new child or an ill loved one...
3/ Paid leave supports women’s full participation in the labor force. It boosts earnings, mitigates families’ costs, honors the caregiving that happens within our homes, promotes racial and economic justice, and shrinks health disparities....
4/ Reams of research from states, employers, and other countries shows that paid leave works.
I commend Speaker Pelosi, House Ways & Means Chairman Neal, Representative DeLauro and members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus for their steadfast leadership...
I commend Speaker Pelosi, House Ways & Means Chairman Neal, Representative DeLauro and members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus for their steadfast leadership...
5/...in insisting that paid family and medical leave remain part of the Build Back Better package – and the advocates, women, caregivers and workers across the country whose outrage gave them the support to know that including paid leave was the only right thing to do....
6/ From rural America to our urban core, from the smallest states to the largest ones, Americans want and need paid family and medical leave...
7/ Together with historic investments in child care, elder care and family-supporting tax relief, Build Back Better will set the country on a path to truly supporting working families, living our family values, and strengthening the economy...
8/ The Build Back Better Act now moves to the Senate where its historic and transformational paid leave provisions could once again be at risk...
9/ Passing paid leave in Build Back Better is the only pathway to putting paid family and medical leave in reach of an estimated 18.5 million people who need time away from work to care for themselves or a loved one each year and do not have paid leave do so now...
10/ There is no Plan B that will deliver like this in any reasonable timeframe. I urge Senate Majority Leader Schumer to do everything in his power to ensure a national paid family and medical leave program becomes law.”
#paidleave
#BuildBackBetterAct
#CareCantWait
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#paidleave
#BuildBackBetterAct
#CareCantWait
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