We all deserve Paid Leave, There’s no time to waste.

Tell your national leaders to commit to passing paid leave for every worker!

The United States is one of only seven countries in the world with no guaranteed form of paid leave. Only 27 percent of workers in the United States have access to paid family leave through their jobs. And even more shocking, here in America, one in four people who have given birth returned to work within two weeks—bleeding, sleep-deprived, and often still injured.

We need a comprehensive, real paid family and medical leave program. One that boosts our economy, increases families’ economic security, and lifts businesses, eases our labor shortage and makes it possible for moms and caregivers to stay in the workforce.

Paid leave is also one of the most widely supported policies in this country. Two-thirds of small businesses want a national paid leave program to support their workers. Four in five American voters support it. In red states and blue, battlegrounds and beyond, supermajorities of voters want paid leave passed now. This is not a partisan issue. This is about family values.

That's why MomsRising has joined our partners at Paid Leave for All, Glamour, Parents Together and Caring Across Generations to call on our national leaders to commit to passing permanent and comprehensive paid leave for all workers.

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And that’s why we need YOUR help; to speak out and tell our national decision makers, to pass paid leave for every working person NOW.

Dear President Biden, Vice President Harris, Speaker Johnson, Majority Leader Schumer, Leader Jeffries, and Leader McConnell,

The United States is one of only seven countries in the world with no guaranteed form of paid leave. Without this widely supported and much needed policy, families will be forced to make impossible choices: working to earn a paycheck or caring for themselves or loved ones.

In 1993, thirty one years ago, Congress finally passed the Family and Medical Leave Act, guaranteeing unpaid, job protected leave for serious medical conditions and for family care when a new child arrives or when a serious health crisis strikes. This law has benefitted families, boosted moms, businesses and our economy but it was only meant to be a first step. It's time, past time for the paid leave that every working person and family deserves.

Only 27 percent of workers in the United States have access to paid family leave through their jobs. And even more shocking, here in America, one in four people who have given birth returned to work within two weeks—bleeding, sleep-deprived, and often still injured.

Today we ask you to commit to passing the country's first permanent paid leave program. The nation urgently needs a program that covers all workers, no matter the size of their employer, or if they are self-employed or work part time.

Thank you,

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