Call upon your Senators and ask them to quickly pass the Build Back Better
act with Paid Family and Medical Leave.
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Dear Friend,
Amazing news! Last Friday morning the U.S. House of Representatives
finally passed the Build Back Better Act, with paid family/medical leave
intact, and sent it to the Senate where it now must pass in order to reach
President Biden’s desk and become law.
This historic legislation will provide 4 weeks of paid family and medical
leave, as well as free preschool for 3 and 4 year olds, a fully refundable
Child Tax Credit, and expanded access to home and community-based services
for older people and people with disabilities, and more!
[ [link removed] ]→ BUT ONLY IF THE SENATE ACTS! And ONLY IF THE SENATE PASSES THE BBB
ACT AS CURRENTLY DRAFTED WITH THE INCLUSION OF PAID FAMILY & MEDICAL
LEAVE! There are just seven legislative days left on the Senate calendar
before the end of the year. Act now and urge your U.S. Senators to act
quickly to pass the BBB Act, including paid family/medical leave, before
the end of the year.
The Build Back Better Act is the progress we’ve been asking for to lift
our families, businesses, and economy, as well as to fight inflation; and
now we must ask the Senate to move quickly and pass this legislation
before the end of the year.
Make no mistake: The advancement of paid family and medical leave in the
Build Back Better Act in the Senate is critical for families, businesses,
the community and the economy. Passing permanent paid family/medical leave
within this bill means the work towards a just and equitable recovery is
on the right track. It means millions of unpaid family caregivers, an
estimated 53 million adults in the U.S. who provide care to a child or
adult, can remain in the workforce and keep much-needed jobs. [1]
[ [link removed] ]*Click here to tell your U.S. Senators to pass the Build Back Better
Act with paid family/medical leave!
Even before the pandemic, the majority of caregivers were women who too
often have been forced to choose between providing care for themselves or
their loved ones when a serious health crisis occured, and their jobs.
And even before the pandemic, 1 in 4 women were pushed back to work within
2 weeks of giving birth or welcoming a new child. [2]
In fact, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just 20%
of private sector workers in our nation, [ [link removed] ] including only 8% of the
lowest wage earners, have access to some form of paid family/medical leave
when a new baby arrives or a serious health crisis strikes. [ [link removed] ]
This is not okay.
It does NOT have to be this way. Studies show that paid family/medical
leave is one of the most popular pieces of the Build Back Better agenda,
so not including it in the final bill would put millions of families at
risk and hurt our economy. In fact, the paid family and medical leave
program included in the Build Back Better Act passed by the House is
estimated to benefit an estimated 18.5 million workers each year who do
not currently have paid family/medical leave through their employers. [ [link removed] ]
Paid family and medical leave is vital to help lift families and help the
economy thrive, it must remain in the Build Back Better Agenda.
The time to act is now, the Senate must pass paid family and medical
leave this year!
[3]→ Sign on to urge the Senate to pass permanent paid family and medical
leave in the Build Back Better Act.
How critical is paid leave? It’s critical to Susan in Charleston, WV who
had to take unpaid leave because she has a compromised immune system and
has to recover when a critical health crisis strikes. And to Tammie in
Martinsburg, WV who is a registered nurse and who couldn’t work because
she had COVID-19. Tammie exhausted all of her vacation and sick leave as
she continued to battle COVID-19 and needed paid family/medical leave to
recover. And what about Jaime from Glen Easton, WV who couldn’t work for 2
weeks due to pneumonia from COVID-19? Jaime didn’t have income for those 2
weeks as she fought pneumonia and struggled to pay bills.
Like you and me, these are everyday workers and their families who have
been affected by the lack of access to paid family and medical leave and
who would undoubtedly benefit from the passage of a federal paid leave
policy. Paid family and medical leave is for all families. It’s for
birthing people to recover from childbirth and for new parents, adoptive
and foster parents that need time to bond with their children. Paid leave
is for time to care for an aging or disabled loved one when a serious
health emergency occurs and to care for yourself when a serious illness
strikes.
The U.S. is the only industrialized country that doesn’t offer a federally
mandated paid family and medical leave program. It’s past time for change.
The moment is now but we need your help to continue the push and fight to
keep paid family and medical leave in the Build Back Better Act.
[4]→ Urge Congress to act now and pass the Build Back Better Act with
comprehensive paid family/medical leave for all caregiving families.
We know what’s needed, immediate relief to ensure families like yours can
thrive. In order to do that, we need the Senate to pass the Build Back
Better Act with paid family and medical leave for all. Now is the time for
Congress to pass paid leave and the Senate must act quickly to pass it
this year to make that happen.
Thanks for joining us in the fight for paid leave!
--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?
[5][link removed]
References:
[1] “[ [link removed] ]Paid Leave Could Keep More Than 6 Million Caregivers Connected to
the Labor Force by 2030”
[2][ [link removed] ] ‘I was risking my life’: why one in four US women return to work
two weeks after childbirth
[3] [ [link removed] ]Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2020
[4] [ [link removed] ]Quick Facts on Paid Family and Medical Leave
[5] “[ [link removed] ]Polling Summary: In Build Back Better, Paid Family Medical Leave
Is One of the Most Popular Policies”
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