Today at Ms. | November 4, 2021


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Paid Leave: If It’s Good Enough for Members of Congress, It’s Good Enough for the American People [[link removed]]

BY REP. ROSA DELAURO | If the Build Back Better Act becomes law, the United States will no longer be the only industrialized nation without a federal paid leave policy.

“It is long overdue that the United States joins the rest of the world and makes a commitment to enact permanent, comprehensive and inclusive paid family and medical leave for all,” writes Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) in this op-ed.

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Build Back Better’s Transformative Childcare and Early Learning Policies [[link removed]]

BY JULIE KASHEN | Build Back Better’s provisions could lower childcare costs for nine out of 10 families with young children in the U.S. while improving the quality of the early education they receive, raising wages and covering the costs associated with higher quality care. Universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds will finally be available, and parents will have the choice to find the right program for their family in center-based, home-based, family-based, school-based and Head Start programs.

These investments will have an even larger effect on the women who have long borne the brunt of the responsibility for care: Black, Latinx and immigrant women.

Abortion After Roe: Long Road Trips and Crowded Clinics [[link removed]]

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | If Roe v. Wade falls, 26 states will likely ban abortion, forcing pregnant women to travel long distances to reach their nearest abortion clinics—if they can afford it.

Clinics in destination states would be unlikely to have the capacity to accommodate all the new patients and that many destination states also have onerous restrictions that increase barriers to abortion, such as waiting periods, two-trip requirements and parental consent.


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