Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Progressives are applauding what Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman called the state's 'transformational' legislative session, which ended on Tuesday after the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party passed nearly every item on its agenda, securing economic justice, reproductive rights, and labor protections for Minnesota ns.
' The party's achievements over the past five months include a statewide paid family and medical leave program, which provides 20 weeks of leave; the legalization of recreational marijuana use; and a law providing free school meals to all public and charter school students—part of Walz's plan to 'make Minnesota the best state in the country to raise a child.
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