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Pete Buttigieg: “The complete lack of paid family leave in this country. Only…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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It's still got a lot of problems around things like long term care that make it harder to take care of a parent and then all kinds of things that make it harder to be a parent. Like The complete lack of paid family leave in this country. Only country to do that other than, I think, Papua New Guinea. to have just no national policy on paid leave. But two economic powerhouses. We don't. It's another example where it doesn't have to be that way. (51:48–51:55)

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