Sentences with phrase «expanding paid family leave»

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.»

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.

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.

Although Wisconsin offers an earned - income tax credit, it hasn't expanded Medicaid and doesn't have a law providing paid family leave.

Methodology: GOBankingRates surveyed all 50 states, analyzing eight data points that served as determining factors in the ranking: (1) median household income, sourced from the Census Bureau in 2015 dollars; (2) median home listing price as of June 2017, sourced from Zillow; (3) food spending, using the grocery index sourced from Missouri Economic Research and Information Center and multiplying it against the average amount spent on food from the BLS consumer spending survey from July 2015 - July 2016; (4) employee health insurance premium contribution, sourced from the Commonwealth Fund; (5) annual child care costs for an infant and a 4 - year - old, sourced from Child Care Aware of America; (6) whether the state offers paid time - off for family leave; (7) whether the state has expanded the earned - income Tax Credit at the state level; (8) whether the state expanded Medicaid coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Alaska has expanded its Medicaid eligibility, but it doesn't offer an earned - income tax credit for low - income taxpayers or a paid family leave program.

It also hasn't expanded Medicaid or implemented a paid family leave law.

New Hampshire has expanded Medicaid, but it doesn't offer an earned - income tax credit or paid family leave program.

Not only does it offer expanded Medicaid and an earned - income tax credit, but New Jersey has a paid family leave program that's been in effect since 2009.

On top of that, Virginia doesn't have a paid family leave program and hasn't expanded its Medicaid coverage.

It hasn't expanded Medicaid yet, doesn't offer a state earned - income tax credit or have a law guaranteeing paid family leave.

Kansas also lacks expanded Medicaid and a paid family leave law.