{"id":44680,"date":"2016-03-01T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/aarp-endorses-governor-cuomos-paid-family-leave-proposal-to-help-family-caregivers\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:18:55","slug":"aarp-apoya-la-propuesta-de-licencia-familiar-remunerada-del-gobernador-cuomo-para-ayudar-a-los-cuidadores-familiares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/aarp-apoya-la-propuesta-de-licencia-familiar-remunerada-del-gobernador-cuomo-para-ayudar-a-los-cuidadores-familiares\/","title":{"rendered":"AARP Endorses Governor Cuomo&#8217;s Paid Family Leave Proposal to Help Family Caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ALBANY, New York<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 1, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0AARP today endorsed Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s<\/span> proposal to create a paid family leave law that would be stronger than any already on the books to help <span class=\"xn-location\">New York&#8217;s<\/span> family caregivers, and the Governor is planning to speak directly to AARP members from across the state during a teletown hall this evening to urge them to help get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s endorsement came as more than 100 AARP members and volunteers from around the state met with their state legislators individually at the capital and urged them to approve the plan as part of the 2016-17 state budget. AARP members and volunteers joined AARP New York State Director <span class=\"xn-person\">Beth Finkel<\/span> on the state Capitol&#8217;s Million Dollar Staircase for the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The teletown hall will begin at <span class=\"xn-chron\">5:20 p.m.<\/span> In addition to being able to ask the Governor questions directly, participants will have the opportunity to contact their State Senator urging support of the Governor&#8217;s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor&#8217;s plan would provide up to 12 weeks per year of paid leave for working New Yorkers to care for newborn children and working family caregivers to care for sick family members. It would be financed entirely through employee contributions starting at approximately <span class=\"xn-money\">70 cents<\/span> per week and rising to approximately <span class=\"xn-money\">$1.40<\/span> when full benefits kick in.<\/p>\n<p>Employees would ultimately receive two thirds of their weekly pay while on leave, up to a maximum of two thirds the state&#8217;s average wage. The two thirds wage replacement cap will particularly help lower-income workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No New Yorker should be forced to choose between paying their bills and caring for a sick loved one,&#8221; said <b>Governor Cuomo<\/b>. &#8220;We are going to pass paid family leave in this state and ensure fairness and dignity for all households. It&#8217;s time that we set a new national standard for supporting working families, and <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span> is going to lead the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AARP applauds Governor Cuomo for his leadership on paid family leave,&#8221; said <b>AARP CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Jo Ann Jenkins<\/span><\/b>. &#8220;Helping caregivers to assist their loved ones is a common-sense approach that results in more people being able to live independently in their home, rather than having to move into a more costly, and often taxpayer-funded institutional setting.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AARP New York is proud that our Governor is fighting for a paid family leave benefit that would be stronger than any other on the books, and we enthusiastically support his plan and urge our legislators to adopt it as part of the new state budget,&#8221; said <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Beth Finkel<\/span>, State Director of AARP in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York State<\/span><\/b>, home to 2.6 million of AARP&#8217;s 38 million members nationally. &#8220;Working family caregivers shouldn&#8217;t have to choose between making a living and caring for mom or dad or their spouse. Paid family leave would ensure they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AARP appreciates Governor Cuomo&#8217;s willingness to speak to our members on tonight&#8217;s teletown hall,&#8221; Finkel added. &#8220;Our population is aging, and family caregivers will only become more and more stressed as time goes on. <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span> has over two million family caregivers who provide unpaid care valued at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/ppi\/info-2015\/valuing-the-invaluable-2015-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">$31.3 billion<\/a> a year. They are a resource we should support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people need this,&#8221; said AARP volunteer <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Toni Salomone<\/span><\/b>, 72, of <span class=\"xn-location\">Islip Terrace<\/span>, whose daughter had to take four weeks off unpaid from her job as a teacher two years ago to be with her father, Toni&#8217;s husband. &#8220;I really needed her support at the time. It was so difficult financially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paid Family Leave would have really benefitted me,&#8221; said <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Richard McGee<\/span><\/b>, 64, an AARP volunteer from <span class=\"xn-location\">Garden City<\/span> who has been caring for his 95-year-old mother. &#8220;Sometimes I received calls in the middle of the night, but I was at a job where I couldn&#8217;t miss days.&#8221; He&#8217;s between jobs now but said paid family leave would help at his next job.<\/p>\n<p>As <span class=\"xn-location\">New York&#8217;s<\/span> population ages, there will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/home-family\/caregiving\/info-08-2013\/the-aging-of-the-baby-boom-and-the-growing-care-gap-AARP-ppi-ltc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fewer family members available to provide care for more aging adults who will need it.<\/a> In 2010 there was a potential pool of 6.6 people aged 45-65 for every person 80 and older who would likely need care at some point. That number will shrink to 4.8 by 2030 and 3.5 by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">The United States<\/span> is one of the only developed nations in the world that does not provide paid family leave. <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New Jersey<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Rhode Island<\/span> are the only states that currently offer paid family leave..<\/p>\n<p>An AARP-commissioned survey of voters 50 and older across <span class=\"xn-location\">New York state<\/span> in 2014 found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/research\/topics\/politics\/info-2014\/new-york-state-fifty-plus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">73 percent support paid family leave<\/a>. More recently, a Sienna Research Institute poll published on <span class=\"xn-chron\">February 1, 2016<\/span> found that 80 percent of New Yorkers support paid family leave. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ALBANY, New York<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 1, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0AARP today endorsed Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s<\/span> proposal to create a paid family leave law that would be stronger than any already on the books to help <span class=\"xn-location\">New York&#8217;s<\/span> family caregivers, and the Governor is planning to speak directly to AARP members from across the state during a teletown hall this evening to urge them to help get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s endorsement came as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}