Posted on 07/07/2017 9:20:27 AM PDT by ColdOne
First daughter Ivanka Trump penned an op-ed Tuesday, making her case why paid family leave is an important policy that benefits American women as well as the economy.
"Providing a national guaranteed paid-leave program — with a reasonable time limit and benefit cap — isn’t an entitlement, it’s an investment in America’s working families,” Trump wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
ADVERTISEMENT She laid out the benefits from such a program, saying it will lead to "Healthier children and parents in more tightly bonded families, greater financial stability and stronger attachment to the labor force are among the most important.”
But she argued that such programs are not reaching "the poorest, most vulnerable workers in our society ..."
Ivanka Trump, who serves as a senior adviser to President Trump, said her father's 2018 budget proposal highlights the importance of such a policy.
“The policy outlined in the administration’s recent budget proposal emphasizes the need for mothers and fathers to have access to paid leave to encourage both parents to share parenting responsibilities and to strive toward minimizing hiring biases,” she writes.
The president's budget proposal includes six weeks of paid leave for families after the birth or adoption of a child.
Ivanka Trump goes on to say “government benefits should not be a substitute for private-sector investment,” arguing that paid leave on a national scale requires participation and efforts from “private sector companies and state governments.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
No Ivanka just no! And please get lost
Let her pay them.
A massive tax on employers to provide paid long term vacations. No way.
For all her knowledge and experience, poise etc she needs to grow up.
Canada has had paid maternity leave for either parent for quite a while. We also have fighter aircraft that are older than some of the pilots. Just sayin’.
You weren’t elected, lady.
Liberals like “free” stuff. Of course, you’re gonna pay for it.
We didn’t elect you OR your Marxist dream.
I think the silly cone has gone to her brain...
I lump this idea and Student Loan Forgiveness into the same category:
Bad ideas which are inevitable.
I see absolutely nothing that is going to stop more than half the electorate from supporting them, unfortunately.
Better then that our side adopt them than have them lead to the election of a Leftist Democrat Moonbat.
I know that’s a very unsatisfying answer, but a practical one.
Just when one begins to believe evolution has finally evolved a beautiful blonde with a brain - well, two out of three isn’t bad.
You’re not the president - please be quiet and don’t embarrass your father.
I wanted her to run for governor of NY - I thought she could run in the GOP and have a chance of turning a lot of this state Republican... but this kind of stuff kills me.
I did pay & sacrificed for my own kids, not someone else’s. I did not vote for Ivanka, not did I ask for two sense - but I did try to buy her perfume for my wife before it went up on Amazon +$15.00 in twelve hours...!
“...six weeks of paid leave for families after the birth or adoption of a child.”
How generous of her...with other people’s money.
I could see such a welfare program spiraling out of control with abuse.
I could see baby factories getting jobs for a short while and then reaping the benefits after putting out another baby. Welfare recipients shouldn’t be encouraged to make more babies.
Is this where the 0Care mandate and tax savings will go? 😳
Why is it "better" if the Republicans are just going to implement the same programs as the leftist democrat moonbats? How are we any better off than if the moonbats get elected?
No.
In a magic kingdom, maybe.
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