Stop the Left’s one-size-fits-all paid leave plans from being included in the $3.5 trillion spending spree.                                           
Friend,
Billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates and millionaire actress and singer Mandy Moore recently pushed their social media followers to call on Congress to pass paid leave (using the same templated post).
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What Melinda and Mandy don’t get or won’t say is that the proposed one-size-fits-all paid leave plan—which Congress has jammed into the $3.5 TRILLION Bernie-Biden Budget Bill—won’t work for or help all women. In fact, it will hurt millions of women—resulting in less opportunity, less true flexibility, and even less generous paid leave benefits.

Congress’s proposed one-size-fits-all government entitlement is simply not the best way to help people who actually need more paid time off. ([link removed])

The government-run paid leave plan would:
* Create a new government entitlement
* Undermine existing benefit programs
* Subsidize big businesses that don’t need help
* Undermine opportunities for women
* Reduce workers’ income
* Raise taxes to pay for it

Of course, we want women to have help when they need it, especially after having children. I’m a mom of two… I get it. Most of us here at Independent Women’s Voice are working moms.

But our organization, like many others, offers paid leave benefits for employees. And it has contributed to the high retention of our staff, and has also been a great benefit for recruiting new employees.

Perhaps Melinda and Mandy should be calling on more private employers, particularly big businesses, to offer benefits like these to workers who need them… rather than trying to force through a new government entitlement for those who may not need them.

IWV also has been working with members of Congress and senators to create more sensible, fiscally responsible, and flexible paid leave programs that aren’t as burdensome, financially taxing, or inflexible as the ones being proposed by the Democrats in Congress and the Biden-Harris administration.

But our recommended policies, which inspired a number of bills to be proposed, have been stuck in Congress. There are better ways to offer paid leave; just not the one-size-fits-all ones being proposed by the Left.

Urge your members of Congress to oppose one-size-fits-all government-run paid leave programs… and to remove them from the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package. ([link removed])

Thanks,

Victoria Coley
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