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In reply to the discussion: I know what Trump was really talking about in his child care rant, and it's even scarier than you thought [View all]werdna
(826 posts)The idea was to allow new parents, including adoptive parents, to receive up to 12 weeks of paid family leave. That sounds pretty good so far: The idea of paid family leave was (and is) enormously popular with voters, and providing it to American families would finally bring the U.S. into line with every other high-income nation in the world.
But in the proposal by Rubio and Ivanka Trump, families would have to raid their Social Security to pay for it by reducing or delaying their retirement benefits. As the Urban Institute calculated, for every 12-week leave, new parents would have to delay their Social Security benefits by more than twice that period, or as much as six months.
Parents who took four 12-week leaves, according to this analysis, would lose 10% of their retirement benefits, for life.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-09-06/i-know-what-trump-was-really-talking-about-in-his-child-care-rant-and-its-even-dumber-than-you-thought