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The Incredible Shrinking Biden Plan

Don't blame Biden. It's not entirely due to Manchin and Sinema, either. Go Deeper.

Robert Reich
Oct 22, 2021
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The very first piece of legislation I implemented as Secretary of Labor was the Family and Medical Leave Act. It provided workers who needed to take time off for their own health or that of a family member or for a new child with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave – after which time they’d get their old jobs back.

Democrats had worked seven long years to ge…

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