The USA is the only developed country without #paidleave -leaving workers to make the impossible choice between their job and care for self or loved ones.

TY @SenSanders @rosadelauro @SenGillibrand @SenSchumer moving on #FAMILYAct for #paidleaveforall
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"People live paycheck to paycheck sacrificing priorities .. to keep food on the table. People need financial security to know they can take care of themselves or they can take care of a loved one." - Rep. @rosadelauro
The people need #PaidLeaveNOW! #paidsickdays #paidleave
Make your voices heard for #paidleavenow #PaidSickDays and #ChildCare. Share your story familyvaluesatwork.org/get-involved/s…
📢When a parent cannot spend time off with a new born baby during the first weeks/months of a baby's life and is forced back to work, that is not a "family value." That is an attack on everything a #family is supposed to stand for! What @SenSanders said!
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Apr 21, 2021
Yes, @RepRichardNeal. Funds for #PaidLeaveforAll and affordable #childcare are key investments. Thank you for listening to the real experts, working women. @WaysMeansCmte
Care is not partisan. Everyone will need to give or receive care.

"Increasing access to #childcare and #paidleave are smart pro-family, pro-growth policies..." - @RepKevinBrady
#ThisAmericanLife: High risk pregnancy, postpartum illness, and –
** No paid leave
** No #childcare

America's mothers deserve better. America is the only developed country without #PaidLeaveforAll.

Thanks Joy Spencer @MomsRising for sharing your story @WaysMeansCmte
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Today the @WaysMeansCmte is holding a hearing on #paidleave, child care, and how the economy failed women. WATCH as working women from across the country give their testimony. We need #PaidLeaveForAll in the plan to #BuildBackBetter. Watch with us @ 12 pm.
The United States is the only industrialized nation with no maternity leave #PaidLeave - @RepRichardNeal
#Childcare workers care for the nation’s children while everyone is at work. Yet child care workers earn poverty wages in 40 states. Is it because it’s a “woman’s job”? It’s time to value and reward care workers like they are truly essential - fair wages and #paidleave
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