Ended 12799 Signatures
Pass Paid Family Leave [UPDATED]
12,799 Out of 100,000 Needed
100,000
Goal
12,799
Collected Signatures
We, the people of the United States, demand that Congress pass a law to give parents paid time off after their babies are born. Pass paid family leave now! #PaidLeave
About This Petition
Paid family and medical leave would give the primary caregiver 12 weeks off after the birth of their child. The United States is the only developed country in the world that doesn’t have this law. Right now, moms are not allowed to take a single day off after they deliver.
84% of Americans want this legislation passed, including over three-quarters of Republicans and Democrats. Congress – give American parents a break!
Do we have a democracy if 84% of Americans can’t get what they want? Do we have a decent, humane country if we make mothers go back to work a day after they deliver? Right now, only 24% of Americans have access to paid family and medical leave in private industry. It’s time to deliver for all parents after they deliver for all of us.
We're going to unify people across the political spectrum to get this passed because 84% of Americans support this legislation.
This petition was updated.
Posted by TYT Staff on 10/28/21 Endorsements
Cenk Uygur
The Young Turks, The Conversation, Bonus Episode
(Pronounced “Jenk” “You-Grrr”)
Cenk Uygur is the CEO and founder of TYT, host of The Young Turks - the largest online news show in the world - and also co-founded the Justice Democrats. Cenk is also the bestselling author of Justice is Coming, available wherever books and audiobooks are sold.
Uygur launched The Young Turks as a talk show on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2002 and started uploading videos on YouTube in 2005. Since then, The Young Turks has become the longest running daily stream online, as the leading news and politics show for young, progressive viewers.
Most recently, Uygur was recognized as one of the Most Influential in News Media 2018 by Mediate and included in the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of 500 most influential people in Los Angeles. In 2017, The Young Turks received best in News and Culture at the 7th Annual Streamy Awards, won the 21st Annual People’s Voice Webby Award for Online Film & Video - News & Politics series, and was recognized with the Audience Honor at the 10th Annual Shorty Awards under Overall YouTube Presence.
He was named #25 in Mediaite’s 2017 list of Most Influential in Media. In 2016, Uygur received the Champion in Media: Fifth Estate award at the inaugural Multicultural Correspondents Dinner. In 2015, he was named #21 in Mediaite’s 25 Most Influential People in Political News list, Variety’s FameChangers, and The Hollywood Reporter’s NextGen 50 list. Uygur has amassed numerous recognitions by the Webby Awards, Shorty Awards, and Streamys for The Young Turks and as a web personality/host.
He has also appeared as a political commentator on CNN, ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos, NPR, Headline News, E!, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show and Fox News Channel.
Uygur was the host of The Young Turks on Current TV, which was the most popular show on the channel’s two-year run. Prior to Current TV, Uygur was the host of MSNBC Live at 6pm ET. Uygur graduated from the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania and from Columbia Law School.
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