Ivanka Trump makes her case for national paid family leave program

thehill.com ^ | 7/5/17 | Olivia Beavers

[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.”

[dforest]

Dear Ivanka, I am nuts about your Dad. You are most surely are not your Dad.

We have yet to get Obamacare repealed and tax cuts.

Please quit pulling lib stunts for expensive programs this country cannot afford.

You and Jared need to spend more time with your young kids and let your Dad and his lovely wife be POTUS and FLOTUS.

We are not interested in some program being foisted on us like Mooch did and Hillary tried so that you can feel good about yourself.

Thank you,

dforest

[LouAvul]

Would she please just shut up?

[itsahoot]

A massive tax on employers to provide paid long term vacations. No way.

Not only that but a population increase among the least productive.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Please, just get out of “advising”

Fashion design is much more up your alley

[Road Warrior ‘04]

[entropy12]

Yeah baby! Let’s make Florida a solid red state!!

[A Navy Vet]

"What a shame that we can’t think beyond the stereotyped lefty/righty divide with great gulf fixed."

Stereotyped? Do you have a clue why the term "stereotype" came to be? Racism aside, ever hear of 80's big hair bands and the same music they played? Or what about the "Rat Pack" in Vegas? Or the Mafia dons? Or welfare queens? Or, or , or?

After 67 years on this rock, I have learned that stereotypes are built upon certain actions by different groups. It's a truism whether you want to believe it or not.

As for right vs left, you're a stupid hippie if you think the socialist left is in any way beneficial to the advancement of mankind. I've seen it up close and personal at communes in California in the 60's. It didn't work then; it didn't work for the Soviet Union; it hasn't worked for Cuba, and North Korea is the worst of all. Free enterprise has it's faults, but is the only system that comes close to utopia on planet Earth. if done fairly.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Lazy thought shouldn’t be excused by “you bugged me so, that I was forced to think lazily.” No you were not forced. You never really wanted otherwise.

Get past that pons asinorum first.

[A Navy Vet]

Lazy thought? My reply was built on 67 years of life experience. Hope your Smokey Mountain distillery is doing well with all your HiTech RedNeckism. Found a new replacement for copper piping and wood pits? I hear there’s a new fangled heat source called propane. Costs some, but just think of all time you’ll save my not sharpening the axe. Funnin...