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On the recordDecember 9, 2019
It is simply appalling that the United States continues to be one of only two industrialized nations in the world without any form of paid family leave.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley criticizes the lack of paid family leave in the U.S.

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