U.S. Only Country Without Family Leave, Due to Republicans
Thanks to Republicans, the United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee any form of paid family leave for its citizens.
If you or your partner have a baby, or either of you, or a close family member falls ill, you should be able to take some time off work, without the fear of losing your job or hampering your career. This is not a weird liberal policy. It’s good economics and attracts badly needed workers to the workforce. Most countries understand that. In fact, all but six countries in the world understand that. And America is one of those six. American workers have weirdly been conditioned to believe that paid leave is a privilege, not a basic human right.
Paid Leave In The US vs. The World
Yes, the U.S. is the only ‘industrialized country’ to not guarantee paid family leave
Guaranteed paid family leave and more specifically paid maternity leave is a legislative priority for President Joe Biden. In a June tweet the President called it a disgrace that “the United States is the only industrialized country in the world with no national paid family leave policy.”
