Congratulations! I love this explanation, especially the nuance about employer sponsored healthcare. I did a lot of research on other wealthy nations’ paid family leave policies, and the U.S. is criminally behind in this area. I cringe when I hear calls for 12 weeks because it’s way too little way too late, and it will only kick this broken can down the road further. My best assessment is that 26 weeks paid leave should be the minimum. A work around re: health insurance could be an option for parents to pay *some* extra percentage of their premium to cover the gap between 12 and 26 weeks. If they were getting paid during that time, I’m sure many parents would opt to do this. I had my baby in California and thank god we have state sponsored paid leave, otherwise my hospital job provided $0 and made me use 100% of my PTO. 🥴
It shouldn’t require a PhD to do accrual accounting while you are waiting on paid family leave to be incorporated into SSI… BTW, congrats on the new little one!!
I was wondering why you were missing from my social feeds, and now I know! Congratulations! And thank you so much for this article. Fantastic breakdown. Congress could do this easily, but they seem allergic to taxing people for programs that would benefit society as a whole. I'm glad there are people like you in the world, who have hope that we will see universal paid leave in our lifetimes. I hope you're right.
Also I say this as someone who is currently child-free and will most likely stay that way. I would still pay more taxes to support a program like this, because I know what a massive benefit it would be to society at large.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations!
CLAPPING.
Congratulations 👏🎉.
Big shout out from OE Island 🏝️! We miss you bigly and can’t wait for the rescue boat to come next year with new eps. 🛟
Congratulations! I love this explanation, especially the nuance about employer sponsored healthcare. I did a lot of research on other wealthy nations’ paid family leave policies, and the U.S. is criminally behind in this area. I cringe when I hear calls for 12 weeks because it’s way too little way too late, and it will only kick this broken can down the road further. My best assessment is that 26 weeks paid leave should be the minimum. A work around re: health insurance could be an option for parents to pay *some* extra percentage of their premium to cover the gap between 12 and 26 weeks. If they were getting paid during that time, I’m sure many parents would opt to do this. I had my baby in California and thank god we have state sponsored paid leave, otherwise my hospital job provided $0 and made me use 100% of my PTO. 🥴
Congrats! And just the fact that this already has been sorted in most other countries proves it can be done.
Mazel Tov! Hope all are happy and healthy. Here’s to at least one nights good sleep in the coming months.
So happy to hear that baby #3, who I met indirectly at IRP this summer, has joined us on the outside! Blessings to you and your family!
Congratulations!
It shouldn’t require a PhD to do accrual accounting while you are waiting on paid family leave to be incorporated into SSI… BTW, congrats on the new little one!!
Congratulations!
Great idea. The same method could be used for healthcare.
I was wondering why you were missing from my social feeds, and now I know! Congratulations! And thank you so much for this article. Fantastic breakdown. Congress could do this easily, but they seem allergic to taxing people for programs that would benefit society as a whole. I'm glad there are people like you in the world, who have hope that we will see universal paid leave in our lifetimes. I hope you're right.
Also I say this as someone who is currently child-free and will most likely stay that way. I would still pay more taxes to support a program like this, because I know what a massive benefit it would be to society at large.
Congrats on Baby #3! Your army of worker bots is now fully operational. You’re outnumbered, sleep is canceled, and chaos is the new normal. Enjoy!😉
Boom! Baby number three. Congratulations