Paid leave has bipartisan support from 84 percent of U.S. voters. So why is the U.S. the only industrialized country without a national form of paid leave?
, Pelosi joined the bus tour during its D.C. stop. In a speech, she recalled her own advocacy for paid family and medical leave during a bus trip in 2014 with Rep. Rosa DeLauro .
“When we did a bus trip … a woman came to the front to speak. She was a school bus driver. And she said, ‘Let me tell you what I see every school day. I see moms come to the curb with their child, frequently crying, child sniffling. She has to put the child on the bus sick, because she has no alternative,'” said Pelosi. “No paid family and medical leave, no decent wages to afford child care, no child care.
Join Democratic Members of Congress, community leaders and me live with the Paid Leave For All bus tour!
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