Oct 26, 2021
Congressional leaders are considering slashing it from the Build Back Better package entirely, while according to PL+US: Paid Leave for the United States, President Biden is still working to reach an agreement to include paid leave albeit reduced from 12 weeks to just four weeks. According to PL+US, over 100 million people in this country don’t have a single day of paid leave, 1 in 4 American women return to work within 10 days of giving birth, and less than 1 in 4 men have access to paternity leave. Low-wage workers are the least likely to have access to family leave. As PL+US Executive Director Molly Day shared, this is an opportunity to “guarantee that all working people can be there for their families during life’s most important moments.”