Hello, hello, welcome to your morning show. My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we're going to be talking about the conversation around paid family leave.

If you don't know, as of right now, the United States is only one of five countries without guaranteed paid family leave.

And those other four are Lesotho, Liberia, Papua New Guinea,

and Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland. So in fact, the United States is alone in that it is the only

industrialized country that doesn't guarantee workers paid family leave. But there has been a major push to change this.

We've had moms like Avonka Trump and Anne Hathway showing support for a national policy.

One in four American women go back to work two weeks after giving birth because they can't afford to take

off any more time than that. That's 25% of American women.

We've all seen the likes of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Facebook CEO

Mark Zuckerberg talking

extensively about taking extended leave after their children were born

you know when talking about just regular everyday people in America polls

consistently show overwhelming support for a national paid family leave

policy according to a Pew Research Center study 82% overwhelming support

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a Pugh Research Center study

82% of workers say that mothers should receive pay to leave after the

birth of a child and 69% support fathers taking time off as well.

But despite having widespread support support it still hasn't been

implemented because we can't seem to agree on who or how to pay for it. But before we

fully dive into that let's talk about what paid family leave actually means.

Simply enough, like the name suggests, it means getting paid to take time off for family needs.

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