As you know, restaurants are reeling – especially their unemployed staff – 52% who are female, the majority women of color. These women and their families are now teetering on the edge of poverty just as their children’s schools are closed and we are in the midst of a public health crisis.
Takeout may help some restaurants bridge the coronavirus, but it is not going to help families survive economically when a health crisis occurs in their community or in their own family. Now is the time for fundamental change. How?
We need paid family and medical leave for all and we need it now.
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