Some of the highlights she proposes:

* Expand paid leave across the country through a new State Family Leave Innovation Fund;
* Extend the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to cover 13 million additional American workers and guarantee workers at least 7 paid sick days per year;
* Promote model workplaces with grants to support new workplace flexibility programs and a federal telecommuting initiative;
* Ensure better access to affordable, high quality child care; and
* Prevent parents from being discriminated against because of pregnancy or their caregiving responsibilities.

And it’s all “totally affordable”.

Critics of the proposed plan are concerned about tax increases and additional burden on small businesses from the government. I want to know what it means for the middle class, not only the working poor.

I’m still taking it all in, but, even though she brings up the right points, and, I want things to be better for working parents, I’m just not sure I can see this plan happening.

But, it’s a great way to keep the issues in the news.

You?

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Hillary Clinton’s Agenda for Working Families