[wkimeria]

I work for a company that offers 4 months of parental leave and generous PTO, and time-off for people dealing with COVID in their family. I am thankful for that.

I am also acutely aware that I am a small slice of a pretty privileged group (highly paid knowledge workers) and that these benefits are not available to the average American.

I wish this was something that the American government would pay for (instead of spending billions on weaponry and corporate tax giveaways).

We are an incredibly unequal society with little to no safety net for anyone other than the wealthy, and it is a damn shame given how rich we are.

So kudos to Google, and kudos to other companies that are following suit (I think Spotify was the first company to have 6 months of parental leave) but I wish this would become federal policy.