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Tim Walz: “We established the nation-leading paid family leave program.”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Gov. Walz speaks at State of the State address [FULL SPEECH]

Published | Video Starts at 29:45

We've expanded the freedom of our workers to balance career and family, ensuring paid sick days, banning non compete agreements and increasing protections for workers in Amazon. Warehouses, construction sites, hospitals, nursing homes, public schools. And of course We established the nation-leading paid family leave program. Since Paid Leave successfully launched on January 1, we've approved more than 54,000 applications for people, people to take time off to bond with a new child, to take care of a family member and to serve their community. (29:45–29:51)

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