could change that, yet the Vances' home-state senator, Joe Manchin, could keep paid leave from becoming a reality.
"All of the time, he's talking about how he doesn't want to give government handouts, and that he wants people to work," she added."Paid leave keeps people working. It's not just a handout." Edmund now works at a fabrication company making $17 an hour after being on unemployment insurance and getting laid off from another coal mining job.
"That's a whole month's worth of security that you don't have to worry about," she added."You don't have to worry about bills. You don't have to worry about daycare. You don't have to worry about rent or how you're going to survive."on Capitol Hill in November to push for a paid leave program in the $1.75 trillion social-spending bill. Her three children accompanied her, but Edmund was absent. He couldn't get off work.
This is the state JoeManchin represents right?