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“To this end, we are working with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to design a paid-leave policy that provides a targeted benefit to help the people who need it the most and are least likely to receive it from their employer, without discouraging larger companies from developing more generous policies,” she writes.
The president's daughter also pointed to economic benefits that arise when women succeed in the labor work force.
“Women’s increased participation in the workforce in recent decades has been an important driver of middle-class incomes;
Making more money at the expense of losing a moral family unit? NO wonder this idiot has no sense at all. She thinks money solves all problems.
It has been proven to be the opposite.
When I grew up, single wage earner households were the norm, and most mothers were home with the kids--not all, but most. Those who were not were generally professionals, or had a husband either recovering from an injury or otherwise unable to be employed.
As the trend grew to that second income being commonplace, our economy went through an inflationary cycle, most notably the Carter years, when fuel prices had quintupled, auto prices (new, 'entry level car) more than tripled, and interest rates were so high that many states had to change their usury laws for banks to be able to borrow at prime rate.
Now the (house and land) I grew up in ($20K in the mid 50s) is worth easily 25 times that in modern dollars, a new basic car (such as they are) is 12K instead of 2K, gasoline is 11X what it was back when, and while interest rates are low, the principle involved is still insanely high.
In other words, for many on the lower end of the income spectrum, the increase in wages brought little increase in buying power: inflation ate the difference, and now two-income households are more a matter of necessity for most youngsters than one of choice.
