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Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you think about the system in Mexico? I’m not an expert, just saw in some paperwork that everyone pays a maternity tax, like social security, which makes it seem that maternity leave is a government program. We’d need to get our shit together as a country first as the GOP crowd would immediately want it defunded, but it seems like a better use of tax dollars than weapons of war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think that may be similar to what we have in Washington state. All employees pay something like $2 from each paycheck into the FMLA program and you can use it for maternity leave as well as other family health emergencies. It's a state program so I don't think the employer has to pay anything. I don't know how many other states have programs like this but it would be nice if there was a federal one.