Boston Offering Its Employees 12 Weeks Of Paid Abortion Leave, Including Men

Boston Offering Its Employees 12 Weeks Of Paid Abortion Leave, Including Men

If you're employed by the City of Boston and you have an abortion or your child is aborted, you can now get up to 12 weeks of paid leave from your job.

That's thanks to an amended version of the city's paid leave ordinance that passed unanimously through a voice vote during a meeting of the Boston City Council on September 15, 2021. Boston's acting mayor Kim Janey signed the ordinance on September 17 and it went into effect immediately, according to a spokesman for the mayor.

Hidden American History Can Bring Americans Together, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Says
Politics

Hidden American History Can Bring Americans Together, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Says

Matthew McDonald

Brian Kilmeade isn't trying to be a formal historian or even a popularizer of well-known historical events. He's trying to bring underappreciated moments in American history to the masses.

"My goal is to find something unmined that matters," Kilmeade said during a recent talk.

Read More