Pregnant people in New York would have 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul after the state’s legislative session kicked off this week.
The Democrat’s plan to expand the state’s paid family leave policy, which would need to be approved by the state Legislature, aims to expand access to high-quality prenatal care and prevent maternal and infant deaths in New York, an issue that especially affects low-income and minority communities.
The U.S. infant mortality rate, a measure of how many babies die before they reach their first birthday, is worse than other high-income countries, which experts have attributed to poverty, inadequate prenatal care and other possibilities. The U.S. rate rose 3% in 2022 — the largest increase in two decades, according to a 2023 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Please go into detail what these interests are. I want sources too and not general statements like “we need a strong ally on the middle east”
Four off the top of my head would be the Suez Canal, Intel fabs, Gulf Arab oil, and Iran’s aspirations for regional power & nuclear tech. I’m sure you could come up with hypotheticals about why Israel, specifically, is not the ideal ally, but it’s what we’ve got.