“This is the ticket that can, that I believe will, pass paid family leave for all in the United States.”
Last week, on August 2, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was asked what the Democrats—if they won the Presidency, Senate, and House this November—should pass first in 2025. Walz could have chosen from a menu of issues, problems, and ground we have to make up as a country. But his answer? Paid family and medical leave. “We’re the last nation on earth basically not to do this,” he began. “It is so foundational to just basic decency and financial well-being.
Of course, everyone has their reasons, and many factors abound, but 36 percent of adults 18 to 49 cite not being able to afford a child as the reason they do not want any. I remember some of the challenges I faced when I had my own son nine years ago. I was financially forced back to work well before my child was sleeping at all, well before my body had healed. I remember the days of pumping in storage closets, mind-blowing exhaustion, pain and complications.
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