Attn: Stay At Home Dads and Elderly Women!! You need Bernie.

[grasswire]

You are among the people who would be helped immensely by Bernie Sanders' concern for your Social Security retirement.

As things stand, those who care for family members are generally not called WORKERS, and they do not receive Social Security credits for those hours of often-grueling chores.

Stay at home moms and dads do not get work credit for their labor.

And elderly women are particularly suffering right not, because when they DID work for credit, it was too often low-paying work.

This is an EQUAL PAY issue, and a FEMINIST issue, and a MEN's issue as well.

Bernie speaks to this every time he talks about strengthening Social Security.

This is a huge inequality that seems almost forgotten.

EQUAL WORK CREDITS FOR CAREGIVERS.

[elleng]

1. Governor O'Malley's plan includes this:

'Reform Social Security to support, rather than penalize, caregiving. Governor O’Malley supports providing up to five years of “caregiver credits” that would increase the 35-year wage base for those who spend an extended period of time providing full-time care for children, elderly parents, or other dependents. In practice, current methods of calculating benefits penalize workers, most often women, who take extended time off to care for their families.'

https://martinomalley.com/policy/expanding-social-security/

[grasswire]

2. thank you

but I don't think five years of credits is enough. Good on O'Malley for this effort, though.

[farleftlib]

3. Yes, Bernie will fight for ALL women

on all fronts. Thank you for this!