
It's shameful that paid leave is stuck in limbo
CNN
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, of MomsRising.org, writes that President Biden's current Build Back Better budget reconciliation budget includes tremendous gains for families across the country, but is missing one key thing: The high-polling and urgently-needed policy of paid family/medical leave. The measure would "make possible for people to recover from from childbirth to bond with a new child, or to take care of themselves or a close loved one if a serious health crisis strikes." But she says "the fight is still on" and is calling for Congress to take action and pass it immediately.

Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.

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