Ivanka Trump, who is desperate to paint herself as a champion of working families, held a White House summit on paid leave and childcare on Thursday, throwing out adjective after adjective like “remarkable” and “incredible” and “amazing” to describe what she views as the Trump administration’s remarkable successes in pushing forward family-friendly policies. “Families have never had a brighter future,” she warbled at one point, a shit-eating grin pasted to her face like a death rictus.
by Arizona Krysten Sinema, nominally a Democrat, and Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, works in largely the same way. Like the other paid leave proposals mentioned above, it’s best described as a loan, only instead of dipping into future Social Security earnings, a new parent would take out an advance against their annual child tax credit, in an amount up to $5,000 and to be repaid over a ten-year period.
As the Center on Budget and Policy Prioritiesfor families. In effect, it is a loan that families would repay during some of a family’s most financially crunched years.”To Bravo, all of these plans do little to address the real needs of families. “They’re deeply flawed,” she told Jezebel, and provide “too little time for too few people, and too little money.”Here’s another problem: while three out of four people who take unpaid leave through the Family and Medical Leave Act do so in order to take care of their own medical needs or to care for family members that are not newborn children, all of these plans are limited to new parents. “I think the key question is, who do they leave out?” Shabo told Jezebel of these proposals. “And how are they double burdening the very workers who don’t have access to paid leave now?” She noted how all of the paid leave legislation proposed by Republicans would, if passed, do little to support lower-wage workers
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