Sign this Petition in Support of Paid Leave

Tell Congress to include permanent paid family and medical leave policy in the American Families Plan.

BREAKING: A landmark proposal was announced last week. On April 28th, President Biden announced his economic recovery package, the American Families Plan, and it includes a national paid family and medical leave program. As the only industrialized nation in the world without paid leave, this is the greatest opportunity we’ve had to win paid leave in decades.

Today, 1 in 3 Americans lack access to a single day of paid leave to care for themselves or their loved ones. That’s 113 million people, overwhelmingly women, communities of color, and low-wage working families. 

Congress has the chance to make sure that nobody in the U.S. has to choose between taking care of their health or their family, and keeping their paycheck. But it will take all of us speaking out loudly to make it happen. Too often, good policies end up on the congressional cutting room floor as a result of compromises and deals. Tell Congress that cannot happen with paid family and medical leave—paid leave must stay in the bill.

Sign the petition and urge our congressional leaders to include comprehensive, permanent paid family and medical leave policy in the American Families Plan.

To: U.S. Congress

From: [Your Name]

To build back better after COVID, we must invest in our country’s most important infrastructure: families. Comprehensive paid family and medical leave will improve the lives of every working person in the U.S.—from new parents and those caring for elderly relatives to those recuperating from surgery or illness. As a country, we can’t afford to miss this opportunity.

Please pass a bold, permanent paid family and medical leave policy as part of the American Families Plan.