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Biden Proposes $325 Billion to Fund Paid Family and Medical Leave

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as well as improved child and healthcare benefits. The third budget of Biden’s presidency contains a $325 billion commitment to a comprehensive, permanent paid family and medical leave program that provides up to 12 weeks of leave and covers workers’ own serious health needs, caring for a loved one’s serious health needs, bonding with a new child, addressing the impact of a loved one’s military deployment, or help for those seeking safety in relation to sexual or domestic violence.“To support working parents, my budget expands access to affordable, high quality child care for millions of families.

And it invests in paid family and medical leave, so we will no longer be the only major economy without national paid leave,” President Biden said in a speech to mark the launch of his budget, in Philadelphia.The United States is one of only six countries in the entire world without a national paid leave policy.

The absence of one forces one in four women in the US back to work within two weeks of giving birth.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The budget contains $5 trillion in proposed tax increases on some of the highest earners in the country, and for corporations, as well as huge increases in defense spending, a salary increase for federal employees, and support for Ukraine.

Unsurprisingly, it faces significant hurdles to pass through the Republican-controled House. But this proposed budget will set the battle lines for the coming weeks of negotiations and may also signal the policies that Biden could campaign on in the run up to the 2024 election, if he decides to run again.

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