Speak UP: Urge Congress to pass Paid Leave for All!
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Dear Friend,

The time is now. Congress MUST include comprehensive paid family and
medical leave in the Build Back Better plan and pass it quickly. 

[ [link removed] ]→ Sign on and Demand that Congress pass paid family and medical leave
for working families.

The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women and Black women
have been hardest hit. Due to societal norms, women are most often tasked
with caregiving responsibilities. And women and moms of color do most of
that work: 61 percent of caregivers are women and 61 percent of caregivers
identify as non-Hispanic White, 17 percent identify as Hispanic or Latino,
14 percent as non-Hispanic African-American or Black, 5 percent as Asian
American and Pacific Islander and 3 percent identify as multiracial or
another race/ethnicity. [1]  The emotional, physical and economic cost of
providing paid and unpaid family care is high, and without policies like
paid family and medical leave, working families will continue to struggle
- forced to choose between the jobs they need and the families they love.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the economy has lost 563,800 jobs
across three care industries; child care, nursing and residential care,
and home health care but these losses fell disproportionately on women,
who lost 258,300 caregiving jobs. [ [link removed] ]  These job losses were due to a
variety of reasons, but one thing is clear, failing to support women and
BIPOC women in their roles as caregivers places them at a disadvantage.
Failing to provide family friendly policies like those that are included
in the Build Back Better Agenda ensures women, BIPOC women and families
will be forced to make impossible choices between providing care for their
loved ones and economic security. 

[2]→ Ask Congress to support paid family/medical leave in the Build Back
Better Act.

Investing in families like yours and mine is at the heart of the care
infrastructure and the Build Back Better Agenda. Caregiving does not
happen in silos, at some point in each of our lives, we will need to
provide or receive care. And one of the most comprehensive ways to do that
is through paid family and medical leave. Paid leave will allow working
families to take paid time off when a birthing parent needs to recover
from childbirth, or for parents to bond with their new child, it’s needed
to care for an aging or disabled family member having a health crisis, to
deal with the military deployment of a loved one or to care for your own
serious personal medical needs. Investing in our families also means
investing in our economy and the prosperity of our nation. 

Paid family/medical leave is not a singular issue that only affects new
parents, paid leave is essential for everyone. Caregiving is the work that
makes all other work possible and providing paid time off to working
families so they have the time to care is vital for our nation. Access to
paid leave is not universal, low wage workers are more likely to lack
access to paid leave while among the highest paid private sector workers,
only 38 percent have paid family leave through their employers. [ [link removed] ]  The
lack of paid family and medical leave in our nation continues to push
women and millions of people out of jobs, with moms and moms of color
experiencing associated health and economic harms. We need a change. 

We have an opportunity RIGHT NOW to SPEAK UP and SPEAK OUT about our need
for paid family and medical leave! 

[3]→ Ask Congress to pass permanent and comprehensive paid family and
medical leave program for all caregiving families.

Thank you for speaking up for paid leave for all!

--Namatie, Ruth, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder.org
team

P.S. Personal experiences are powerful and can make a HUGE difference in
helping elected leaders understand how public policies impact families so
they can move change. We want to hear more from YOU! Can you take a second
and follow the link below to share your personal story about how having,
or NOT having, access to job-protected paid leave has impacted your family
in the pandemic?
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References:

[1] [ [link removed] ]2020 Report Caregiving in the U.S. 
[2] [ [link removed] ]Women Lost 528,300 Caregiving Jobs Since the Start of the Pandemic
[3] [ [link removed] ]National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United
States, March 2020


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