Andrew Yang has called for at least nine months of paid leave. Here's where Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg stand.
Democratic presidential candidates all agree that the dearth of paid family leave in America is a major problem — they just have slightly different solutions on how to solve it.
The lack of paid leave is “breaking families’ backs. We need to start supporting our kids and families from the beginning,” said Andrew Yang, a candidate who has staked his campaign on $1,000 of monthly universal basic income. Yang says employers should offer at least nine months of paid family leave to new parents, or six months to a single parent.
More women are having children in their 30s and 40s, so child care can clash with careers that are gaining steam and other potential obligations, like caring for aging parents, she said. Other candidates, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg have also supported a legislative proposal for three months of paid leave, according to Vox.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has said that just 15% of private industry, and state and local government workers had access to paid family leave as of March 2017.
For example, separate from the few paid-leave laws encompassing newborns, D.C. and 11 states have paid sick-leave laws, as do more than 20 states and counties across the nation.
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