family leave

Could We Have Paid Family Leave?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 26, 2023

The answer is almost certainly no because Republicans hate working families. But the overturning of Roe has at least led a few Republicans to take their rhetoric about family values seriously, so there's a little bit of an effort to create a bipartisan family leave...

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The Fight for Paid Family Leave

By Erik Loomis

On November 8, 2021

The U.S. has a pathetic family leave program. The Family and Medical Leave Act was a fight to the death with Republicans over something that was barely a social welfare.

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This Day in Labor History: September 23, 2002

By Erik Loomis

On September 23, 2019

On September 23, 2002, California governor Gray Davis signed the California Family Rights Act, the first paid family leave law in American history. This relatively small but still significant increase.

docjoe1986 I love how the Republican response to this is going to be that it wasn’t that bad, that it was justified, that it was caused by a few antifa agitators, and that it was a big conspiracy to make trump...
The Smith Report on 1/6 · January 14, 2025
littlegreen🌻🇺🇦 He really doesn’t know that about himself. He thinks he’s on the side of the angels. It’s the strangest thing. Brainwashing techniques have become remarkably effective.
The Smith Report on 1/6 · January 14, 2025
littlegreen🌻🇺🇦 Normally, I would read the report. Normal is over.
The Smith Report on 1/6 · January 14, 2025
littlegreen🌻🇺🇦 Garland’s exit interview is going to sound like Zuckerberg’s Rogan interview. Mean Biden pressured him. It was like 1984.
The Smith Report on 1/6 · January 14, 2025
Chick Cornea “the President is the choice of the people and that must be respected" The people are fuckwits and the Constitution treats most of them like irrelevant dogshit unless they live in a deserted...
The Smith Report on 1/6 · January 14, 2025