Clinton unveils Family Leave plan

Reuters

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton courted female voters on Tuesday with a plan to expand paid family leave, boost child-care funding and fight workplace discrimination against pregnant women.

In a speech peppered with anecdotes from raising her 27-year-old daughter Chelsea, the former first lady who would be America's first woman president said her plan would cost $1.75 billion a year and be paid for by shutting down certain kinds of tax shelters without expanding the deficit.

"The struggle to balance family and work can be simply overwhelming," the New York senator told a gathering of about 250 people at the Young Women's Christian Association offices in Manchester, New Hampshire.

At the heart of her plan is a $1 billion a year federal grant to encourage states to introduce a paid family leave program by 2016. It also called for an expansion of the Family Medical Leave Act to cover an additional 13 million workers.

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This is the real kind of family values.

"This program will encourage people to have babies just to get some paid time off"