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 ...
My nephew took a job in Germany, had their son, took the long paid parental leave, and got out of there. Normal human behavior. I don’t want to subsidize that kind of behavior. No, no, a thousand times no.
My nephew took a job in Germany, had their son, took the long paid parental leave, and got out of there. Normal human behavior. I don’t want to subsidize that kind of behavior. No, no, a thousand times no.
President Trump is brilliant.
Ivanka reminds me of hillary during bill first term with the health care BS.
All I’m saying is that in 2020 if the Democrats can come up with a salesman for Paid Family Leave and Student Loan Forgiveness who does not make people wretch, we be in a big heap o’ trouble.
Biblically, Donald can be a bully pulpit. As long as it isn’t actually bullying.
I believe God let secular liberalism step in when we forgot sacred liberality.
Is the American family bowing down to corporate uniformitarianism? If so, I hate to say it to the modern breed of conservative, but I believe God thinks it abomination compared with what could be.
Again... Sacred liberality. Let us not fallaciously exclude the middle.
Sez who? The Republican congress from 2010 to 2016 gave Obama pretty much EVERYTHING he wanted. They make take a bit longer but once you start dispensing with your principles you end up at the same place.
Mme Ivanka, le petite princesse.
Because the government requires that they do so. See the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
She sounds just like a democRAT, blathering about “investment”. Horsecrap. She’s proposing more spending and more debt.
“Why should other workers foot the bill for someone else’s kids? You want kids? Save some money FIRST.”
It’s also the workload for those that are NOT on family leave,
In my office they seemed to have their babies in the summer,therefore limiting the weeks the rest of us could take for vacation.
VERY annoying.
Part of her proposal is allowing couples making up to $500,000 a year to deduct child care expenses. I'm sure in that in her world that qualifies as lower middle class.
Some other things are close and yet more workable in many cases, such as telecommute in IT positions. Don’t offshore; rather, offcampus to Americans.
A bad idea may be close to a much better one.
Amen and worth repeating
Dear President Trump, while I realized you love, admire, and recognize your daughters attributes, please also realize she is diametrically opposed to your policies that Americans voted for. If you're using her as a foil against liberal/socialist attacks, it won't help. Plus, it smacks of nepotism and cronyism.
You're doing great Mr. President, but Ivanka's and Jared's ideology is not what put you in the Oval Office. More importantly, nationally mandated family paid leave is not the business of the Federal government. You say you want less Fedgov intrusion, then veto any bill that imposes this on private employers. Let the States do what they will.
Of course, the proponents of such a measure will initally assert that only workers would be eligible to claim benefits under this program.
But then, some bright Leftist will point out how unfair it is to the po' welfare recipients, and so...
Regards,
All Millenials know about Paid Family Leave is that the US is the only developed country that doesn’t have it. Believe me, we’re going to need a full-out re-education assault if we’re going to avoid this.
I know not to many people here will agree with me, but I’d be likely to support this. In my own example, I’ve worked more or less continuously since finishing school twenty years ago, and throughout that time, I’ve paid continuously paid into unemployment. The only time in my life that I have ever been able to recoup any of that money was after the birth of my son, when I was able to avoid turning him over to strangers to care for him for another six months after my wife’s six months of maternity leave ran out. It wasn’t anybody else’s money but my own, but given my skill level, I’m unlikely to ever face unemployment, so there’s likely to be no other way for me to get any of that money back, and I greatly appreciated the opportunity to keep my six-month old son out of daycare. Ultimately, my wife left her job after the end of my leave, so he ended up never having to be cared for by strangers at such as young age. By the time preschool rolled around at age 2, I felt that he was ready.
I’ll also add that IMHO the grand scheme of those who seek to destroy “the West” as Trump put it yesterday is to replace Westerners (and yes, that includes non-white people who have adopted Western values and ethics) with others, via abortion and immigration, respectively. Rational Westerners who take responsibility for the sustenance of themselves and their families tend to forgo having a lot of kids because of financial considerations. Paid family leave will not by itself reverse that — the Trump economic boom will do far more — but every bit helps.
That said, the details are important. In California, it’s a part of the already government-mandated unemployment insurance program, so there’s really no taxpayer dollars at issue, unless you consider government-mandated insurance as a tax (well Justice Roberts does, so I suppose that’s not unreasonable!). I wouldn’t support it as a plain tax-financed, means-tested welfare entitlement, but it will probably end up somewhere in between.
And yet still amenable to charitable cooperation. Oh you have children? I don’t. So please do see what works best for all. I will bless your children; now please also bless me.
I thought this was supposed to be paid as Unemployment Benefits which are limited, not a continuation of Salary.
Still a bad idea....
Ivanka is a beautiful and smart woman.
She and her liberal husband need to get out of the White House
and get back to running the Trump organization.
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