Sentences with phrase «expanding paid family»

Yesterday Americans overwhelming supported progressive actions like raising the minimum wage and expanding paid family leave.

From increasing our state's minimum wage, or expanding paid family leave, the governor has made a clear pitch to help strengthen families.

But many are also raising minimum pay and contributing more to employee 401 (k) accounts; some, notably Starbucks and Walmart, are expanding paid family leave to more employees.

Clinton used the first public rally of her presidential campaign to align herself with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, saying she wanted to ease income inequality and would push for expanded paid family leave, universal preschool and other liberal priorities.

In Congress, I'll fight to expand paid family leave because, when working families are given the time they need to care for themselves or their loved ones, our economy, our workforce, and our families thrive.

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton used the first public rally of her presidential campaign to align herself with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, saying she wanted to ease income inequality and would push for expanded paid family leave, universal preschool and other liberal priorities.

Mr. Cuomo should find a way to expand paid family leave and move more quickly to a goal he has publicly espoused: a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

Not exact matches

Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»

Trump spoke about women and empowerment, and at later sessions took opportunities to promote the administration's expanded childcare tax credit, her paid family leave proposal, and the president's tax plan.

In February of this year, Facebook (fb) expanded its employee benefits to include 20 days of paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and up to six weeks of paid time to take care of sick relatives.

These include higher minimum wage, better infrastructure, expanded collective bargaining rights, and universal benefits — health care, but also paid family leave and retirement security.

Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, while Barack Obama signed not only a nearly $ 800 billion stimulus package to combat a spiraling recession but also the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and a law expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Some of Clinton's plans include guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, expanding early childhood education, capping childcare expenses at 10 percent of a household's income, helping the families of children with autism and other special needs get access to more resources and support, and insuring more families through the Affordable Care Act.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

Learn the benefits of paid post-pregnancy parental leave — and why our country's family leave laws need to be expanded.

Under the changes outlined today the coalition is significantly expanding the amount of childcare it is prepared to help pay families where both parents are in work.

Here's the issue: the entire four - day message of the Convention was not about expanding Trump's base of support among minorities or women (the 2016 GOP platform says nothing about providing «equal pay for equal work»; it was not about proposing substantive solutions to problems facing the nation; it was not even about making amends with traditional conservatives and moderate Republicans to achieve party unity (the Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, the Bush family, and all former Republican nominees for president, except one, did not attend).

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

«We are seeing that Medicaid is expanding with more usage than was previously thought in the white community in Erie County, and also that many recipients are working to pay the bills and put food on the table but still need help from the Medicaid system to provide for their families» healthcare needs.

The proposed bill, agreed to by the mayor and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Vivertio but not yet introduced or passed in the council, will expand the size of businesses required to provide paid sick leave from 15 or more employees to 5 or more employees, accelerate it's applicability so that all covered businesses must comply by April 1, 2014 (businesses with 15 - 20 employees have until April 1, 2015 under the existing law), remove exemptions for manufacturing businesses and remove economic measurements that could have caused a delayed implementation and expand the range of family members that employees can care for during such paid sick leave.

He turned left after a 2014 Democratic primary against Zephyr Teachout, a law professor, and in his second term has raised the minimum wage, expanded tuition subsidies at public colleges, enacted a system of paid family leave and raised the age of criminal responsibility.

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

The Democratic - led Assembly in March approved a version of paid family leave which would expand the temporary disability insurance fund in order to pay for it.

«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

Today, a bill to expand New Jersey's Paid Family Leave program was approved by the Senate Labor Committee.

Monday's poll revealed broad support for Cuomo's proposed $ 15 minimum wage, his paid family leave plan and an expanded earned - income tax credit.

The Assembly plan would expand the scope of the state Temporary Disability Insurance program to cover paid family leave and would also take contributions from employee paychecks, but would reimburse at a rate of two - thirds of a worker's pay for individuals on leave.

Shelley will reach across party lines to expand opportunities for small and large businesses and create good - paying jobs for families in Yonkers.

All three Democratic candidates support expanding laws that provide for paid family leave, including Gillibrand's FAMILfamily leave, including Gillibrand's FAMILYFAMILY Act.

Experts assess the state of paid family leave in the United States while President - elect made proposals on expanding benefits.

«These reforms would include expanding rights to paid family and medical leave, extending workers» options for flexible working time, and increasing investments in high - quality nonfamily care,» Gornick wrote.

Soon he's doing flybys over ticked - off commies and looking for ways to earn some scratch on the side to pay for his expanding family.

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And rather than more funding for expanding prisons or school vouchers, why not fund a higher minimum wage, paid family leave, universal early childhood education, and full, equitable funding for all our schools, starting with our poorest communities?

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

That's not the same as saying a little more than half came from private schools, but either way it's definitely a better deal for taxpayers than having to pay tuition for the 73 percent of students in the expanded statewide voucher program whose families were already sending their kids to private school.

The fifth member of the continuously expanding S - Class family pays homage to its illustrious forebear, the original 1965 Mercedes - Benz S600 Pullman.

Plus, the state doesn't offer any of the single - parent support systems GOBankingRates considered for our rankings: no law guaranteeing paid family leave, no state earned - income tax credit and no expanded Medicare.

Expanding on Barker's comments, it should be noted that beneficiaries indeed are paid out in the event of the primary beneficiaries» passing (prior to, or in conjunction with the named person), and are as important as a primary beneficiary when taking into consideration as to how one wishes for their policy to assist their family and loved ones after one's passing.

Families on the budget - priced Trip Protector Lite or Trip Protector Lite Expanded plan receive free coverage for one child under 18 for each related adult paying for coverage on the same plan and traveling with the child.

It's expanding paid paternity and adoption leave, offering «up to four weeks of paid leave for employees caring for others including to support child bonding and ill family members.»

Nonetheless, this profit to the lower wage class implies that upper - class families will pay significantly, the majority of it as expanded taxes.

We are deeply committed to expanding and sustaining home visiting services in our state, and we're thrilled to work with Third Sector Capital to explore Pay for Success as a way to serve more children and families,» said Bette Hyde, director of the state Department of Early Learning.

Over the next year, the state Department of Early Learning and Thrive Washington, with help from Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc., will explore whether a Pay for Success model could help expand the state's nationally recognized Home Visiting Services Account and help more babies and families in vulnerable communities throughout the state get a better start.

Pay - for - Success finances programs to scale in order to expand home visiting services to at - risk families in the Medicaid program.

They would join hands with us to expand access to paid family leave so parents could take care of their families without risking financial ruin.

Pay for Success (PFS) is an innovative and promising financing model that has the potential to expand high - quality services for young children at risk or with disabilities and their families.

«My co-chair and I hope our campaign will expand the availability of green affordable housing nationwide and help a large number of families keep more money for needs like healthy food than paying a power bill.»

On top of that, the state doesn't offer an earned - income tax credit for low - income taxpayers, hasn't expanded Medicaid and doesn't have a law guaranteeing paid family leave.