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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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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
The people need #PaidLeaveNOW! #paidsickdays #paidleave
Make your voices heard for #paidleavenow #PaidSickDays and #ChildCare. Share your story familyvaluesatwork.org/get-involved/s…
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
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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....
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1/ Passing #paidleave in #BuildBackBetter is the only pathway to putting paid family and medical leave in reach of an estimated 18.5 million people who need to care for themselves or a loved one each year.
This is Plan A. There is no Plan B that will deliver like this.
1/ Passing #paidleave in #BuildBackBetter is the only pathway to putting paid family and medical leave in reach of an estimated 18.5 million people who need to care for themselves or a loved one each year.
This is Plan A. There is no Plan B that will deliver like this.
2/ #BuildBackBetter #paidleave will set a four-week baseline of affordable access to paid leave. Want more details?
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3/ Paid family & medical leave is one of the most popular policies in #BuildBackBetter.
#PaidLeave is one of couple policies supported by voters across party lines, even in this highly polarized climate. It's the only one that could touch any household.
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#PaidLeave is one of couple policies supported by voters across party lines, even in this highly polarized climate. It's the only one that could touch any household.
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Hey #DemographyTwitter + #EconTwitter, why have we not talked about #LGBTQ parenthood in all of the coverage about the #decliningbirthrate?
1 in 6 Gen Zers in the US identify as LGBTQ. We are not a small group.
And we are an even bigger part of the future. (1/)
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1 in 6 Gen Zers in the US identify as LGBTQ. We are not a small group.
And we are an even bigger part of the future. (1/)
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There are lots of queer people who would love to be parents but cannot do so given the costly + painful structures of discrimination around #LGBTQ parenthood. (2/)
My wife and I are privileged to have great jobs + employer health insurance. Still, we endured years of discrimination at the hands of health insurance companies + medical providers to create our (amazing) kid. And we had to spend tens of thousands of dollars. (3/)
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
"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
** 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
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
THREAD: A voluntary tax credit will not help alleviate the caregiving crisis.
We face a caregiving crisis that existed long before #COVID19, now worsened by challenges like lack of childcare and remote school. Paid family leave is proven to be a more effective solution. 1/6
We face a caregiving crisis that existed long before #COVID19, now worsened by challenges like lack of childcare and remote school. Paid family leave is proven to be a more effective solution. 1/6
President @JoeBiden gets this -- it’s why @potus included comprehensive emergency paid leave in his #AmericanRescuePackage. 👏👏👏 Instead, Congressional Democrats on @Waysandmeans are moving forward with a watered-down voluntary tax credit. 👎👎👎 2/6
Restoring and expanding true emergency paid sick and family leave is central to the #COVID19 rescue response, saving lives & livelihoods of frontline workers.
And there are good arguments that the employer mandate for emergency leave can work in #Reconciliation. 3/6
And there are good arguments that the employer mandate for emergency leave can work in #Reconciliation. 3/6
Today, (Feb. 5, 2021) is the 28th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act. It is the first bill that Fmr. Pres. Clinton signed into law.
Congressman William D. Ford (Bill to many of us) was among the #FLMA architects & in 1993 represented Taylor, Mich.
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Congressman William D. Ford (Bill to many of us) was among the #FLMA architects & in 1993 represented Taylor, Mich.
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We know now (almost 3 decades later) what Bill knew then—that even with such bold, progressive legislation that aimed to help working people have time to care for themselves & their families that it didn’t go far enough. 2/8
I’m not just guessing this. When Bill was still alive, he told me & my husband so during one of our many conversations after he’d retired from Congress. 3/8
Healthy, happy families = healthy, happy economies = healthy, happy countries. 🇫🇮 #paidleaveforall
#paidleave #FMLA27 npr.org/2020/02/05/803…
#paidleave #FMLA27 npr.org/2020/02/05/803…
#Childfree & #paidleaveforall communities can coexist. ❤ It's possible to be inclusive about the word "family".
Everyone should have the freedom to define family for themselves. ❤
✔ Instead of time off for "birth", time off for "care"
✔ Instead of "newborn child" or
"family member", how about "loved one"
#PaidFamilyLeave
#paidleaveforall
#FMLA27
#childfree
✔ Instead of time off for "birth", time off for "care"
✔ Instead of "newborn child" or
"family member", how about "loved one"
#PaidFamilyLeave
#paidleaveforall
#FMLA27
#childfree
