Clinton Uses Mother’s Day To Slam America’s ‘Outrageous’ Lack Of Guaranteed Paid Family Leave

Hillary Clinton continues to smartly leverage her status as accomplished dignitary, politician, mother, and grandmother to communicate policy.

For Mother’s Day Hillary Clinton unleashed an attack on America’s lack of guaranteed paid family leave. 

In a new video posted Sunday, Clinton honors her mother, her daughter Chelsea, and her granddaughter then moves to the issue of family leave. While the U.S. does have the federal Family Medical Leave Act, it does not require employers to pay employees for family leave, say, maternity or paternity leave. 

“It’s outrageous that America is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t guarantee paid leave,” Clinton says in her Mother’s Day video. “We know that when women are strong, families are strong, when families are strong, countries are strong” she says. 

“What more can we do so that it isn’t quite so hard? The answer is, we can do a lot,” Clinton says, “if we do it together.

“Everyone deserves the chance to live up to his or her god-given potential,” Clinton reminds. 

Around the world, 185 countries offer workers paid family leave. 98 of them “offer paid leave for fourteen weeks or more,” the New Yorker reported in January.

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