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Kirsten Gillibrand: “Only about half of our workforce actually qualifies for…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Published January 13, 2014 | Video Starts at 14:07

We should change our policies to reflect that and give working parents a fair shot. The Family and Medical Leave act we have today basically provides for unpaid leave, job protected leave for serious health events. But Only about half of our workforce actually qualifies for unpaid leave. And many more, given that opportunity, can't afford to take the time off. But Congress can and should do much more to support these workers and strengthen our economy by expanding paid family medical leave. (14:07–14:12)

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Asserts that approximately 50% of the workforce qualifies for unpaid leave.

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“The House of Representatives would like to cut $40 billion over 10 years [from the SNAP initiative, better known as food stamps].”
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“40% of wage earners in America are mothers who are the primary wage earners to provide for their kids.”
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“64% of [minimum wage earners] are women.”
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“Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would help 33 million Americans, 17 million women.”
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“We could create up to 140,000 new jobs [by raising the minimum wage to $10.10].”
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“An increase in 10, 10 an hour raised our GDP by up to $33 billion over the course of just three years.”
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“Every dollar that you invest in early childhood education, it generates up to $11 in economic benefit.”
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“On average, a woman earns 77 cents on every dollar a man earns.”
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“African American women earn 69 cents on the dollar. Latinas earn 58 cents on the dollar.”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 24:30-24:37
“If you just paid a dollar for a dollar, you could raise the US GDP by up to 4%.”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 25:01-25:08
“It [the Family Act] doesn't add one dime to the deficit.”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 02:54-14:37
“The Senate and the House had a chance to do one simple act to live up to that promise by extending a lifeline to 1.3 million jobless…”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 03:45-03:58
“Policies trade off cutting food assistance to families to protect billions of dollars in profits for insurance companies.”
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“Income inequality today is at record level.”
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“College affordability is slipping away.”
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“Seniors are working longer hours for less money.”
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“The real value of workers' wages is on the decline.”
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“40% of the families with children under 18 rely only on the mother to pay the bills.”
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“America's workplace policies today are fundamentally stuck in the past.”
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“The Family and Medical Leave act we have today basically provides for unpaid leave, job protected leave for serious health events.”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 13:57-14:07
“Congress can and should do much more to support these workers and strengthen our economy by expanding paid family medical leave.”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 14:18-14:27
“Under my bill called the Family act, we would create a self-funded paid family medical leave insurance program.”
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“Based on successful state models, it [the Family Act] works by establishing an independent trust fund supported by both the employee and the…”
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“If you are working 40 hours a week on our minimum wage, you're earning $15,000 a year.”
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“The cost of childcare is about $6,700 each year, much more for an infant.”
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“Kindergarten doesn't start until your child is five.”
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“There is no affordable daycare option.”
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“We need universal pre K.”
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“High quality early learning leads to strong cognitive, social, emotional and language development.”
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“When children have access to pre K, it means more working mothers get to stay in the workforce.”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 22:50-22:57
“Most of our workplace policies were set in place in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.”
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“Five of those houses have two parents working, three have a single mom working, and only two have a parent staying at home with a child.”
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“48% of our workforce in New York State is women.”
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“Universal pre K and affordable daycare...that's five years of that worker's life for every child that she has.”
Brookings Summit on Social Mobility with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | Uploaded January 13, 2014 | 31:30-31:37
“They're still earning a dollar on the dollar. So they are being paid fairly for their work.”
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“That daycare was $10,000 a year. So the affordability is a huge problem.”
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“Too many moms couldn't use the daycare available to federal workers because they couldn't afford it.”
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“I want any child to be able to go to a daycare of the highest quality.”
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“I know I couldn't have done my job well without the flexibility for paid family medical leave.”
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“The Democratic Party and the Republican Party will be able to grab hold of these issues as a new generational issue.”
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“The president gave a very significant speech where he mentioned a couple of those ideas in his speech just a few weeks ago.”
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“Speaker Pelosi did a really good press event with a number of members in the House on these issues a few months ago.”
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