Families across our country by providing a tax credit as large as 25 for employers who offer up to 12 weeks of paid family leave. Employees would be able to take this time without needing to choose between potentially falling behind on their bills or spending time caring for their loved ones. Caring for families today does not just mean taking care of children. My proposal helps to ease burdens on family caregivers taking care of aging parents as well. The Senate Special committee on aging recently released a report focusing on americas aging workforce and the opportunities and challenges associated with it. One of its findings is that a growing group of aging workers are also caregivers. In fact, one out of every four employees over the age of 50 serves as a family caregiver. Some employers are implementing strategies to support them, but i believe that this credit will go a long way in encouraging additional employers to take proactive steps to help these workers. This proposal also
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Protecting your family, protecting your community, that is what this is about. Liberals,s what these those progressives or whatever they call themselves they are quite frankly social democrats, maybe even communists [applause] that is what they are trying to go out that after. How dare they point our fingers their fingers at us. We are on the right side. As you go back to your schools, campuses, and communities, go back with a stern backside, knowing that you are on the right side of our constitution, the right side of history, and the right side of god. [applause] with this terrible, terrible situation in florida, the president was here and gave a speech. Said unlike the politicians that want to point fingers of blame and say oh, this is the nra and all that nonsense, that he is going to do something. Of the things that many of us within the movement have been talking about, there is a number , a number policeman of retired veterans that would love the opportunity to protect children
Genetically tinkered with, do you have the right to know, im imran garda, and this is third rail. If you want a future in this country you have to fix k through 12 education. Our schools are not failing, we are doing better than 30 years ago. I could fix the system if people have paying jobs. Wherever theres poverty, theres low test scoring. More focus on education. Therell never be one great way to solve a problem, why should there be one answer. We use test scores to assess kids and teachers. The standards are crippling. The program has supporters. Common core upping the ante. Higher standards is the right thing. A teacher wants to teach. Why do you do that job unless you love to do it tonight we have peter cunningham, former assistant of education, and jessie, a High School Teacher in seattle, the editor and author of more than a score, a new uprising against high stakes testing. Thank you for joining us. Is Public Education in the u. S. Broken beyond repair . Not at all. In many wa
This is third. If you want a future in this country you have to fix k through 12 education. Our schools are not failing, we are doing better than 30 years ago. I could fix the system if people have paying jobs. Wherever theres poverty, theres low test scoring. More focus on education. Therell never be one great way to solve a problem, why should there be one answer. We use test scores to assess kids and teachers. The standards are crippling. The program has supporters. Ante. Thing. A teacher wants to teach. Why do you do that job unless you love to do it tonight we have peter cunningham, former assistant of education, and jessie, a High School Teacher in seattle, the editor and author of more than a score, a new uprising against high stakes testing. Thank you for joining us. Is Public Education in the u. S. Broken beyond repair . Not at all. In many ways its stronger thanst ever been. If you look around you see record high graduation rates, test scores that are at an alltime high. You