00:00I asked my officers about leave policy, and do you know what they said?
00:05Leave. What leave? Women just leave.
00:30I ended up moving in with my parents and having them help with, you know, at least
00:46getting rid of the cost of rent and things like that.
00:49I rushed back to work as soon as I possibly could.
00:53My son, when I first went back to work, he was still under seven pounds, like he was
00:58still tiny, but I needed to go back because, you know, my mom and my dad, you know, they
01:04don't make a ton of money.
01:05I feel like our policies and procedures are set up for young families like mine to fail,
01:11and it doesn't need to be that way, especially when it's been proven to work everywhere else.
01:28Right now, it's left up to the states, so it's a hodgepodge, and you have to win the
01:36zip code lottery in order to have paid family leave.
01:51For so many Americans, just even the opportunity to take that paid leave doesn't even exist
01:55felt just morally wrong.
02:09We need to start supporting our kids and families from the beginning.
02:14My plan is three months.
02:15I think that's good.
02:16I'd love to do more.
02:23I think I was the first president to propose nationwide paid family leave in my budget.
02:33We need an actual national paid leave program, and I'm pleased to see that paid leave now
02:40has clearly become a bipartisan issue.
02:43The Family Act would finally guarantee paid family and medical leave to every working
02:48American.
02:49The Family Act is affordable.
02:51It's an accessible, earned benefit that you and your employer would contribute into together.
02:57It would stay with you for your entire career, no matter where you worked.
03:01It's universal and it's comprehensive, and it's for women and for men.
03:17If this agreement is signed into law, it will be a tremendous victory for the more
03:22than 2.1 million employees across the country.
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