Long story short: tell your PA state legislators to pass paid family/medical leave legislation, and tell your Congressfolk to enact postal banking legislation. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
Pennsylvania residents, take note: Moms Rising helps you tell your state legislators to enact paid family leave for all good Pennsylvanians. The Family Care Act would provide between 12 and 20 paid weeks of family/medical leave, and would levy a payroll tax of no more than 1% to pay for the program – and that payroll tax would probably be rather less than 1%, given that everyone’s not going to be on paid leave at the same time. Right-wingers would probably cite that hysterical hypothetical, but doing so would betray a rather low opinion of Americans – 30-plus years of experience in the workforce have taught me that most of us would rather work than pretend to be sick. Hence I bank on our goodness, so to speak.
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to allow our Postal Service to offer basic banking services, like checking accounts, savings accounts, and small loans. Right-wingers who would guffaw at this idea, as if the mere act of snickering constitutes an argument, would do well to admit that our Postal Service did offer basic banking services until the late 1960s, and they would also do well to admit that a lot of big banksters don’t even want to serve certain rural and urban areas and our Postal Service can certainly fill that gap better than payday lenders and check-cashing joints can. If they’re willing to admit any reality, that is. They seem much more comfortable with big-drama fever dreams. Barry Goldwater would hardly recognize them.
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