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I'm shocked - shocked, I tell you - to find that Red State tax revenues & GDP have fallen by billions due to their anti-abortion laws & child-unfriendly labor policies, as well as young women leaving the states.

Going to love watching them all end up downgraded, defaulting on bonds, and even going bankrupt.

Christo-fascism kills economies.

Link: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/abortion-ban-cost-report/

#Abortion #WomensRights #SeparationOfChurchAndState #Economics #Tax #PaidLeave #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism

Mother Jones
The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year.
A new report quantifies the costs of rising abortion restrictions three years after Dobbs.
Julianne McShane, June 23, 2025

Photo of a protest with a prominent blue "Keep Abortion Legal" sign in the foreground. Three years after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, a new analysis estimates the economic cost of abortion bans. Aashish Kiphayet / Sipa / AP

"...This is not the first indication that Dobbs has shrunken the workforce and stunted the economy. Recent research from both IWPR and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), for example, shows that young, highly educated people are moving out of states with abortion bans. And another recent NBER paper found that abortion restrictions increased rates of intimate partner violence by 7 to 10 percent, contributing to a projected increase of $1.24 billion in social costs, including health care and lost productivity for victims. But the new IWPR fact sheet provides some of the timeliest analysis of the economic impacts of Dobbs, and helps quantify the overall costs of rising abortion restrictions nationwide. “This is not just a women’s crisis, it’s really a national economic crisis of significant magnitude,” says Melissa Mahoney, senior research economist at IWPR and lead author of the report..."

🔖 #Iran #Netanyahu #Trump #Musk #SpaceX #NoKings #LosAngeles #Lyons #DC #NYC #DOGE #CleanWater #EndSuperPACs #Minneapolis #Minnesota #MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #VanceBoelter #ChildTaxCredits #PaidLeave

#Microsoft #Romania: first #CBA signed in leading multinational tech company

https://uniglobalunion.org/fr/news/microsoft-romania/

#unions #union #UnionStrong #CBA #SLTC #SocialDialogue #HealthCare #benefits #burnout #MentalHealth #PaidLeave #CareerGrowth #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

@cmconseils no, it never will...

And that's why #PaidLeave in the form of #Vacation must be taken in any civilized nation...

Some good news from the #2024Election :
#DailyKos #PaidLeave
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/10/2284355/-3-states-had-paid-leave-on-the-ballot-Voters-approved-all-of-them

Interesting to see such progressive policies passed in such red states. Maybe someone should actually try running on such a platform some time. 🙄

“All three states that passed the measures also supported President-elect Donald Trump, a result experts have highlighted as evidence that ‘progressive policies’ like the minimum wage & paid leave have strong salience with voters regardless of party affiliation.”

#Politics #USPolitics #Election2024 #PaidLeave #MinimumWage

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/three-states-had-paid-leave-on-the-ballot-voters-in-each-one-overwhelmingly-approved-them

“We’ll also cut the cost of #childcare & #ElderCare, & finally, give all working people access to #PaidLeave, which will help everyone caring for #children, caring for aging #parents & that sandwich generation, which is caring for both.”

- MVP #KamalaHarris

#OpportunityEconomy #economy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

The US is in 42nd place for life expectancy and still falling. That such a wealthy country can't guarantee a #LivingWage, universal #Healthcare, or #PaidLeave is insane. Americans seem okay with servile obedience to power structures and are content with crumbs. Why is that?

Access to Paid Time Off by Wage Group in America
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/access-to-paid-time-off-by-wage-group-in-america/ #infographic #PaidLeave #access #WageGroup

@ChrisMayLA6

They forgot "trying to make time for a simple shower." My biggest and most frustrating challenge as a very new mom was finding the time-- and energy-- to take a long shower. I was chronically sleepy, and there always seemed to be something keeping me from getting in the shower.

Breastfeeding was a challenge in my case. The pump didn't work for me, so I could only feed directly.

Housework also changed. Not only were there more dishes and laundry to clean, but there were always a ton of toys or other baby items to pick up and put away. I could no longer clean most everything in the house in just a few days. Eventually, each room got assigned its own day of the week.

I ended up staying home and leaving the workforce. I looked at the budget and realized I would only make a few dollars a month (with my salary at the time) after paying for #childcare. The added stress and loss of time with my new daughter was not worth it for me.

#NewMom #NewBaby #Parenting #PaidLeave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaRSvQ2NTBw

#DemocracyNow

#JCVance Calls Democrats 'Childless Cat Ladies', GOP OPPOSES #PaidLeave, #UniversalChildcare

#Election2024 #Couchfucker #StopJDVance #extrêmedroite #farright

My BIL shared the first image on our family group chat yesterday. It was funny until I shared the next image with the statement, “Yeah I don’t think they care.”
#July4 #USA #IndependenceDay #PaidLeave #PTO #PaidTimeOff #Capitalism #CapitalismKills #CapitalismIsKillingYou

George Washington on a horse, with the caption, “Have fun at work tomorrow, England.”

An infographic showing selected countries with their minimum annual paid leave and public holidays, with the UK at the top with 37 total days, and the USA at the bottom with 10.

It’s a day to celebrate mothers, but motherhood is increasingly difficult in America. The Biden admin has fought for paid leave, affordable childcare…, but Republicans have thwarted their efforts: For families without paid leave, babies “are going to day care when they are two weeks old.”

“They do not even have immunizations. They’re not on regular feeding patterns. Moms are giving up breastfeeding far sooner than they would like to.” -S Min Kim #Childcare #PaidLeave https://apnews.com/article/paid-family-leave-maternity-22aaac545f83b95842316a3029f3bb40

NEW analysis looks at the relationships between state-provided paid-leave availability and enrollment in public health and nutrition programs (SNAP, Medicaid, WIC) among single low-income women following a birth in the U.S. and finds that SNAP participation is lower in states with paid leave.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/3/126

#PublicHealth #PublicPolicy #Nutrition #SNAP #Infants #PaidLeave #Parenting

The US won't provide a #LivingWage, demands working weeks exceed 40 hours, and won't offer #PaidLeave, #FamilyLeave, #AffordableHousing, or #UniversalHealthcare, yet the right here somehow expects women to crank out babies like it's 1951. Tell them to fuck off. #Unionize #IWW