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Trump Shutdown Hurts Workers And Small Businesses

The Trump Shutdown has left hundreds of thousands of workers without a paycheck, and many will not receive any pay at all for missed workdays. As the Trump Shutdown stretches on, it is now hurting the private sector and could have even more far-reaching consequences for Americans across the country.

The Trump Shutdown has gone on so long that workers likely won’t see a paycheck for at least another few weeks.

CBS News: “Federal workers won’t see a check until Jan. 25 at the earliest”

Thousands of workers whose pay comes from federal contracts may not recuperate any lost pay from the Trump Shutdown.

ABC News: “While hundreds of thousands of federal workers will have to wait for back pay after the government shutdown ends, thousands more whose pay comes from federal contracts have little hope of recuperating the pay they lose when the government isn’t operating.” Continue reading “Trump Shutdown Hurts Workers And Small Businesses”

New Polling Shows that Small Businesses Strongly Support Paid Family and Medical Leave

The following article by Shilpa Phadke and Danielle Corley was posted on the Center for American Progress website March 30, 2017:

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A food truck co-owner hands a credit card back to a customer after taking an order in Burbank, California, July 2015.

A new poll, commissioned by the Center for American Progress and Small Business Majority, shows that 70 percent of small-business owners support a national paid family and medical leave insurance program. The poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners, found the following:

  1. 70 percent of small-business owners believe that it is important to establish a federal paid family and medical leave program that is gender neutral and allows workers to use leave to care for themselves or a family member. Forty-two percent believe that it is “very important” to establish such a program.
  2. Support for a national paid family leave program among small-business owners is growing. When a similar poll was conducted in 2013, 45 percent supported proposals to create a publicly administered paid family and medical leave program. That number has grown to 70 percent in just four years, demonstrating the rising awareness of the need for such a program. Continue reading “New Polling Shows that Small Businesses Strongly Support Paid Family and Medical Leave”