Gillibrand: Clinton will be a champion for women & families, incl ensuring up to 12wks #paidleave

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Seems Sen Gillibrand supports Hillary on the paid leave issue.


@SenGillibrand Clinton will be a champion for women & families, incl ensuring up to 12weks #paidleav
A tweet from Sen. Gillibrand. Let her words speak for themselves without distortions please.


TWEET
Kirsten Gillibrand ?@SenGillibrand 17h17 hours ago

As President, @HillaryClinton will be a champion for women & families, incl ensuring up to 12 weeks of #paidleave. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/paid-leave/ #p2



I also posted this. important:



13. It is a matter of how it is paid for. But seems Gillibrand approves of Hillary's method per the

Tweet in the OP. We need to get a paid family leave in the US. As the article points out the real fight is against the Republicans on this issue.



Hillary Clinton Sets Up A Fight With Bernie Sanders Over Paid Leave
But the real contrast is with Republicans, who oppose paid leave guarantees altogether.
01/07/2016 11:25 pm ET | Updated 1 hour ago

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-paid-leave_568f2e27e4b0a2b6fb6f8d81


.....Clinton's proposal closely resembles a bill that’s been circulating on Capitol Hill, sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). Sanders, the senator from Vermont who is Clinton’s chief competition for the Democratic nomination, is among its co-sponsors in the Senate and has been touting its virtues repeatedly, and enthusiastically, on the campaign trail.


But Clinton’s proposal differs from the bill in one crucial way. In order to finance the replacement wages that workers would get, the Gillibrand-DeLauro bill would impose a small payroll tax, of 0.4 percent, that employers and employees would split evenly. According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, that works out to about $1.50 per week per worker.

Sanders has said he supports that approach, because it would represent a tiny sum that the benefits would more than justify. Advocates of this approach note that Social Security and Medicare Part A have similar financing schemes -- and argue that this “social insurance” approach, in which all workers contribute a small amount through payroll taxes, gives programs political resiliency.

They also say it’s administratively simple, since an agency like the Social Security Administration already runs such programs and could take on paid leave with relative ease.

Clinton has criticized that approach repeatedly because it would mean higher taxes on lower- and middle-income workers. Instead, she has said, government should finance the new benefit by imposing new taxes on only the wealthiest Americans. Clinton says it’s a matter of fairness, since incomes for the wealthy have been rising quickly, but wages for the middle class have been stagnant........

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