Vicki Shabo

@VShabo

Senior Fellow @NewAmerica, fmr @NPWF, @Lake_Research. Policy maven, strategist, lawyer working for #paidleave #equalpay #genderequity for all. Tweets are mine.

Washington, D.C. newamerica.org/our-people/vic… Joined November 2013

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Vicki Shabo @VShabo Jul 23, 2024

1/ A 🧵about @vp @KamalaHarris and #Care:

In 2017, when Harris joined the Senate, she immediately signed on as an original co-sponsor of the #FAMILYAct, to create a national #PaidLeave program. Some new senators sit on the sidelines, she didn't!
congress.gov/bill/115th-con…

www.congress.gov Cosponsors - S.337 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): FAMILY Act Cosponsors of S.337 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): FAMILY Act

Vicki Shabo @VShabo Oct 17

@GreysABC S23 holds great promise. Soapy fun plus: attention to systemic failures from government incompetence (air traffic control, hospitals losing money), health disparities, foster care, repro health decisions, and normalizing family leave and men holding the mental load!

Grey's Anatomy Verified account @GreysABC Oct 15

forget doomscrolling, I'm #greys scrolling 📱 watch the #greysanatomy season premiere tonight at 10/9c on ABC. stream on hulu.

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Vicki Shabo @VShabo Oct 13

TODAY @PaidLeaveForAll launches the #TimeAndMoneyTour, a trip across PA, OH, and MI to talk to communities about the affordability crisis, their caregiving needs, and the solutions to put more money into working families’ pockets and to give us more time for what matters most.

Vicki Shabo @VShabo Sep 5

Also this from @nwlc nwlc.org/press-release/…

nwlc.org NWLC on Trump-Vance Pronatalist Proposal to Direct Child Care Funds to Stay-At-Home Parents -... Washington, DC – The New York Times reported that the Trump-Vance administration plans to overhaul the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) by redirecting federal child care dollars away from...

Vicki Shabo @VShabo Sep 5

🙏 @JoshuaTMcCabe.
"I am a big proponent of more support for stay-at-home parents. But this is not how I would choose to do it...
Expanding the eligibility without increasing funding would mean more parents competing for the same dollars, and leaving more parents ... worse off."
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Vicki Shabo @VShabo Sep 5

Good policy is growing the pie by investing in all families, not pitting families against one another and making it harder for people who want or have to work to find child care.