JWI urges Congress to include robust funding for paid leave, child care, and more in BBB
Jewish Women International lauds the historic commitments to child care and affordable housing and healthcare in the White House framework for the Build Back Better Plan. These are significant investments that will support survivors of domestic violence. However, any decision to cut paid leave out of the Build Back Better Plan will dramatically increase the risk of lifelong economic insecurity for survivors of domestic violence who are among the millions of women working every day to support their families. Denying them paid family and medical leave, which every other wealthy nation offers to its workers, forces survivors to choose between having an essential paycheck and taking the time to secure safety for themselves and their children.
JWI strongly urges Congress to include robust funding for paid leave, child care, affordable housing, healthcare, and cash assistance initiatives which will help survivors and their children struggling to make ends meet, in the final Build Back Better Plan.
Jewish Women International (JWI) is the leading Jewish organization working to empower women and girls by ensuring and protecting their physical safety and economic security, promoting and celebrating inter-generational leadership, inspiring civic participation and community engagement, and engaging men as allies in ending gender-based violence. JWI is a Steering Committee member of the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence and convenes the Interfaith Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and the Clergy Task Force on Domestic and Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community.