The summit features issues Obama and Dems are making part of the 2014 political campaign: minimum wage, paid family and sick leave, greater access to child care, and the gender wage gap.
By Roger Runningen and Angela Greiling Keane |
Updated on June 23, 2014
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(Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama pressed for workplace changes to benefit families with children, saying the U.S. is trailing other advanced countries and must compete with more job flexibility and a higher minimum wage.
“Many women can’t even get a paid day off to give birth,” he said today at a White House-sponsored conference in Washington. “That’s a pretty low bar. You would think that we would be able to take care of” that, he said.
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