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Clinton Proposes Big Grants for Family Leave
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday proposed giving $1 billion in grants to states that enact paid family leave laws and said that she would support requiring employers to provide workers seven days’ annual paid sick leave.
Mrs. Clinton, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, also called for expanding the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which protects the jobs of workers who take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave. The law covers businesses with more than 50 workers. Mrs. Clinton would lower that to 25, covering an additional 13 million people, her campaign said.
The ideas are the latest parts of Mrs. Clinton’s strategy to cement women as the cornerstone of her support, but her call for an expanded federal role in labor activities drew fire from business leaders, who called her proposals onerous.
Business representatives said state laws on paid leaves were often so broad that they risked abuses like demands for paid leaves for minor health concerns. In addition, the federal law on unpaid leave continues to concern some critics because some workers take leaves with short notice or are difficult to replace.
“Extending the unpaid leave act to smaller employers will just create more problems, especially when the definition of a ‘serious health condition’ is so extremely broad,” said Randy Y. Johnson, vice president for labor issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said they would work with Congress and industry to expand the federal law with an eye toward flexibility and supporting the needs of small businesses. They said Mrs. Clinton would also support guaranteed paid sick days through new legislation, a program that has had Democratic support on Capitol Hill for some time.
Mrs. Clinton also proposed tens of millions of additional dollars for block grants for child care programs.
Together, the new proposals that Mrs. Clinton announced yesterday in New Hampshire would cost $1.75 billion a year. The campaign said the government would cover the costs by establishing a single definition for a tax shelter that would ultimately yield more than $2 billion a year, according to a Congressional estimate that it cited.
In her New Hampshire speech, excerpts show, Mrs. Clinton recalled her days as a mother and lawyer. She described a “gut wrenching” moment when she had to appear in court when her daughter, Chelsea, was sick. A family friend filled in for the baby sitter.
It was the sort of personal anecdote that Mrs. Clinton is highlighting this week, a week that her campaign has devoted to appealing to working women and mothers.

2007-10-17 12:24:08 · 5 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics & Government Politics

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What a waste of 1.75 billion. I mean...we spend that much a week on the war. Instead of helping Americans take sick time or allowing sick children to be with their parents. That's just awful. We could be bombing people with this money! Man...and the end of small business...the sky really will fall...I mean...GRANTS! What a waste! Taking GRANT money and giving it to businesses to pay for leave. Certainly they will all go under once given grant money to pay for this. How ridiculous. Know what sounds better? Starting a war that costs 2 billion a week and then NOT raising ANY taxes to pay for it! That is a much better way to (not tax) and spend!

2007-10-17 12:43:34 · answer #1 · answered by prekinpdx 7 · 0 0

You for sure can no longer upload 2 and a pair of. except you're making over $250K a 300 and sixty 5 days (which based on your good judgment, i'm particular you do no longer), then you definately gets a larger tax injury (averaging $one thousand) under Obama's plan than you will under McCains plan (average $3 hundred). yet - there's a larger piece of the puzzle than tax breaks. it relatively is reported as the fee of the dollar. under Bush, and it would proceed under McCain considering that he plans to proceed the warfare at 10-12 billion a month spending, are dollar is falling because of the fact we are borrowing for this warfare. once you borrow, it relatively is in simple terms like a tax - yet worse. We pay for it over years. What occurs is our dollar fee is going down. The dollar is well worth in simple terms 30 cents of what it replaced into in 2000. that's the genuine reason Oil is so costly as we communicate. definite, there is extra call for. yet, they're pumping for that call for. the subject is that the dollar would not purchase what it used to purchase. you're able to have economic experience to renowned the way the fee of the dollar impacts your wallet lots extra desirable than taxes. Obama sees the way it works....and could make transformations to make all our lives extra effective.... at the same time as doing away with the lobbysts impression. in simple terms a fool does no longer vote for him.

2016-10-04 01:19:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Mrs. Clinton is as always proposing a lot that she has no intent to fulfill.

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." - George Stephanopolous, 1996

2007-10-17 12:31:39 · answer #3 · answered by wider scope 7 · 0 0

In the dictionary I believe it is called pandering.

This woman is a fake. She will say whatever she needs to say so that she can grab the power and fulfill her MASSIVE ego.

She is a socialist of the largest degree, redistribution of wealth is her agenda.....but look at her wealth.......or rather what her and that groping rapist husband have stolen from the taxpayer!

Life is a *****, don't vote for one.

2007-10-20 01:47:58 · answer #4 · answered by USA 3 · 0 0

you may want to move to Panama or Costa Rica if the witch gets elected.........

2007-10-17 12:55:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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