National Partnership for Women and Families

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Dear
John,

This headline says it all:

This is the year we pass paid leave
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"In 1984, a group of female attorneys huddled over a typewriter in an
office of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, now the National
Partnership for Women & Families. They punched out a document that
would eventually become the Family and Medical Leave Act, which today
guarantees eligible workers 12 weeks of unpaid time off. To get the
idea out into the world, they rolled out copies through a mimeograph
machine.

Those women had originally wanted to push Congress to pass a national
mandate for paid leave to welcome a newborn, care for a sick or
disabled family member, or recover from a serious illness. But they
soon realized that even passing unpaid leave would be a slog. 'People
were calling us communists. They said that this was going to be the
end of capitalism as we know it in this country,' Debra Ness, one of
the women in that office and president of the National Partnership,
recalled with a laugh. 'They thought we were nuts.'"

Read the entire article here.
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Well, America knows it's time for paid leave. We had the right idea
then, and we sure as hell have the right idea now.

So please take a minute and call your representative before it's too
late.

Congress is still hammering out the final details, and we need to
ensure paid leave stays in the bill, paid leave gets adequately
funded, and the Build Back Better Act makes it to President Biden's
desk.

Call Congress now!
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Thank you!!

- The team at the National Partnership

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