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1/ Thank you, @JoeBiden @Transition46 for proposing emergency paid sick time and paid family and medical leave through September as part of the #AmericanRescuePlan! Together with other key investments, this is a game-changer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/biden-s-emergency-coronavirus-plan/93eaf097-0e81-4ea2-90f6-d0f4b7937b22/
#paidleaveforall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/biden-s-emergency-coronavirus-plan/93eaf097-0e81-4ea2-90f6-d0f4b7937b22/
#paidleaveforall
2/ My statement:
It’s exciting to see President-Elect Biden’s American Rescue plan treat #paidleave as a foundational requirement for rescue, relief and recovery. It will help businesses open, workers get vaccinated, and get kids back to school...
It’s exciting to see President-Elect Biden’s American Rescue plan treat #paidleave as a foundational requirement for rescue, relief and recovery. It will help businesses open, workers get vaccinated, and get kids back to school...
3/ -- while ensuring that those who are sick can isolate to keep others safe and speed their own recovery and that those who need to care for loved ones will not lose their jobs or jeopardize their families’ ability to meet basic expenses.
4/ #Paidleave to quarantine, isolate, receive a COVID diagnosis and, soon, a vaccine, will help stop the spread of the virus. Last year, emergency paid leave prevented more than 400 COVID cases per state per day...
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00863
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00863
5/ – a critical tool to stopping the surge that Congress irresponsibly allowed to lapse just as contagion was soaring in December. Additionally, ensuring workers the ability to care for themselves, their children and other loved ones...
6/ ...responds to the needs of millions of working people who have struggled with work and care over these last long ten months,
especially women and workers of color, who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
especially women and workers of color, who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
7/ Congress must act swiftly after inauguration day to pass the American Rescue Plan into law.”
My statement on the #paidsickdays and #paidleave provisions of the Biden rescue plan, praising their treatment as "foundational to rescue, relief and recovery" is now online here!
https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/press-releases/president-elect-bidens-american-rescue-plan-treats-paid-leave-foundational-requirement-rescue-relief-and-recovery/
https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/press-releases/president-elect-bidens-american-rescue-plan-treats-paid-leave-foundational-requirement-rescue-relief-and-recovery/
