Learn more about the CROWN Act in our blog from EPI's @jasminepp.bsky.social:

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We have to do more to support working families, especially women in light of proposed Medicaid cuts that will make child birth more dangerous! No one should have to make the impossible decision of choosing between their health/bonding time and financially supporting their baby.

I wrote this blog to highlight the importance of paid parental leave and a comprehensive PFML (www.epi.org/blog/progres...)

My story is not unique, however, there is still no guaranteed national PFML law and in steps toward paid leave, Alabama has the most progressive state paid parental leave law in the South.

I had a successful recovery, but it took over a month for my blood pressure to regulate and I still needed that time to make sure my new favorite girl was doing well. Undoubtedly, my recovery would not have been as smooth if not for paid parental leave.

Last year, as I neared the final weeks before my due date, I was emergency induced due to Preeclampsia. After she was born, all I wanted to do was look at her precious face and hold her little hand. That was interrupted by medical procedures to manage my seizure-level blood pressure

We have to do more to support working families, especially women in light of proposed Medicaid cuts that will make child birth more dangerous! No one should have to make the impossible decision of choosing between their health/bonding time and financially supporting their baby.

My story is not unique, however, there is still no guaranteed national PFML law and in steps toward paid leave, Alabama has the most progressive state paid parental leave law in the South.

I had a successful recovery, but it took over a month for my blood pressure to regulate and I still needed that time to make sure my new favorite girl was doing well. Undoubtedly, my recovery would not have been as smooth if not for paid parental leave.

Last year, as I neared the final weeks before my due date, I was emergency induced due to Preeclampsia. After she was born, all I wanted to do was look at her precious face and hold her little hand. That was interrupted by medical procedures to manage my seizure-level blood pressure.

When the FLSA established a federal minimum wage, it didn't cover all workers due to racist occupational exclusions. We've seen important steps to expand coverage since then, but we still have further to go:

www.epi.org/blog/a-histo...