Clinton Proposes Big Grants for Family Leave

A recent article published in the New York Times on October 17, 2007 by Patrick Healy that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed $1 billion in grants to states that pay family leave laws and that she will support employers to provide seven days per year to pay sick leave.
The candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination Mrs. Clinton called for expanding the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows ``eligible'' employees of a covered employer to take job-protected of unpaid leave. Actually the law covers businesses with more that 50 workers. Mrs. Clinton’s proposal would lower that to 25, covering and additional 13 million people.Business representatives said that “paid leaves” are so broad that they risk abuses for minor health concerns. Also, if she extends the unpaid leave act to smaller employer it will create more problems. This article is worth to read because it shows all the discontents citizens face because of candidates’ proposals; specifically Mrs. Clinton’s proposals. However, Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said they would work with Congress and industry to expand the federal law with an eye toward flexibility and support the needs of small businesses.
It seems that Mrs. Clinton has a very ambitious campaign. She is proposing tens of millions of additional dollars for block grant for child care programas. Together would cost $1.75 billion a year. The campaign said the government would cover the costs by establishing a single definition for a tax shelter that would ultimately yield more than $2 billion a year.