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Paid Leave for All Is Necessary for Our Country to Recover
Amanda Brown Lierman and Dawn Huckelbridge argue that passing a comprehensive paid leave plan is imperative to supporting women in the workplace and America s economic future.
By Amanda Brown Lierman and Dawn Huckelbridge Apr 29, 2021 Design by Hanna VaradyGetty Images
As leaders of national organizations that mobilize women, workers, and their families and as mothers ourselves, we know that American families stand at a tipping point. Our country cannot recover, and we cannot move forward, without paid leave for all.
When schools shut down, we watched our kids struggle to make progress at home and in virtual classrooms. We tried to help them learn, then worked late into the night after putting them to bed. We worried about our grandparents and older relatives in nursing homes, making impossible decisions to try to keep them safe. We talked to our coworkers, repeating to each other: “This isn’t s